For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Trueman: Food, Inc.: The Silence of the Yams] Reference

That's been piped from deep within the earth or strip-mined from the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garbage] Reference

They've strip-mined the smarts out of sitcoms, reality shows, news and talk.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Beauty and the Geek," "America's Most Smartest Model," and More Have Found Dumbeth] Reference

The country must allow its forests to be clearcut and its land to be strip-mined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The U.S. Federal Budget Pipeline: Where Do The Dollars Drain?] Reference

It's land that previously was strip-mined in coal production and deep mines as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 28, 2009] Reference

Americans do mistrust the powerful economic interests that have strip-mined our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Loeb: The Election Needs You, Broken Heart and All] Reference

We have had 30 years of class warfare, in which the wealthy strip-mined the middle class.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Campaign/RNC Robocalls Question Whether Obama And Dems Really Want To Keep Us Safe] Reference

There are vivid pictures of denuded forests, strip-mined mountains, and strip-malled farmland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel Makower: Obama and the Vision Thing] Reference

Unfinished, never will be finished, but I strip-mined some of the ideas for my book Poison Sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 March «] Reference

They're strip-mined through unending debt service so the parasite keeps feeding on its food source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's New World Order] Reference

Oh beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, for strip-mined mountains majesty, above the asphalt plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference

The levels of impoverishment and economic ruin in strip-mined coalfields areas rival those prior to the War on Poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)] Reference

Millions of acres of forests and farmlands have been strip-mined into oblivion; pioneering communities have been plundered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Biggers: Obama at Miners Memorial: Pray for the Dead, Fight Like Hell for a Just Transition to a Clean Energy Future] Reference

It can't be worse than the strip-mined hill-tops of Appalachia, which will be beachfront once the seas are finished rising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joshuah Bearman: Eco-nukes] Reference

Under this type dominance and America's iron grip, Haiti has been strip-mined for profits and its people neoliberally crushed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood"] Reference

When it gets wired overnight to corporate headquarters, it has been extracted from the local economy as if it had been strip-mined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Norman: Don't Take That Rebate Check to Wal-Mart] Reference

Imagine a strip-mined pit that literally looks like the dark side of the moon -- a black moonscape reeking like a tarry toxic soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Paglia: Pipelines are Forever: Why We Delivered the World's Dirtiest Oil to Secretary Clinton] Reference

It has proved to be the best growing tree for reafforesting a formerly strip-mined limestone quarry of a cement factory near Mombasa.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Experiences with Casuarinas] Reference

If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback] Reference

The asthma and cancers in the families under the strip-mined mountains, they have the moaning, distorted cry of the earth in their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverend Billy: Please Don't Eat the Mountains] Reference

In response, Wyoming increased its coal production sharply, particularly low-sulfur, low-ash (and low-cost) coal from the Powder River Basin, where coal is strip-mined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of the United States] Reference

Aluminum soda cans: Aluminum ore is strip-mined from surface land; next, the aluminum extraction process occurs in smelters, massive containers that require massive power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simran Sethi: Life Cycle: Pop vs. Soda? Either Way It's Made with (GMO) Corn.] Reference

The right wing business mentality sees the world as a thing to be strip-mined to achieve the greatest profits, in the quickest way, for whoever can get their hands on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Beinhart: 2007 -- Year of Madness] Reference

The oil would come from strip-mined oil sands in Alberta, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference

Wouldn't the aliens come and kill us everytime we strip-mined a mountain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

By the 1950s, over a third of all coal in the region was being strip-mined by.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Construction of Donaldson Park began in fall 2005 on formerly strip-mined land.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Blasting and coal dust had made life unbearable for anyone in the strip-mined areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sherry Chandler] Reference

Sometimes, I feel that the 1970s are being positively strip-mined for this kind of material.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Even the coast itself - overdeveloped, strip-mined and battered by storms - is falling apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

A: Most kitty-litter products, both clumping and non-clumping, come from clay, which is often strip-mined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Our pop-culture past has been strip-mined so thoroughly that we're beginning to exhaust our supply of Pauly Shores.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

In the western territories cities are swallowed by gas and walled away to rot while the frontiers are strip-mined for resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [WWdN: In Exile] Reference

No poverty, no coal dust, no strip-mined mountains and forests, no polluted streams, no black lung, no reckless pursuit of profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference