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All seven Council members said they felt optimistic about saving the new town from further despoilment by overly rapid development.

If they wished to do so, the latter could oblige Israel to abandon its policy of oppression and despoilment.

The fund is contributing to this despoilment.

Her captor shooting a quick glance rearward discovered the imminence of his despoilment.

The fun is not unalloyed, however, because the playwright is sincerely committed to his dark take on the corruption and despoilment of America.

The tomb suffered from severe despoilment in antiquity, with most of its funerary goods being carried of.

The science of underwater archeology is ill served by the unilateral exploitation and despoilment of a unique historic site.

They decide to leave their homes and search for "the perfect place"; i.e., a place free of pollution, deforestation, and other forms of mankind's despoilment.

Father Gregorios was aware that in his nephew's mind the act of tearing down the wall was imbued with overtones of despoilment, if not outright sacrilege.

A generally affable man, Mr. Stevens categorically, unconditionally refuses to divulge the name of the island, fearing that publicity will lead to the despoilment of his hideaway.

The media criticized the group mainly on allegations of despoilment, paranoia, loss of critical thought, family breakdown, abandonment of medical treatments, refusal of vaccinations and school attendance for children.

He had to discover how far the despoilment of Mithril Hall had gone; he had to learn if the most treasured room of the upper level had survived.

Mr. Straley's rugged Alaskan adventures may be stylistically removed from Mr. Hiaasen's feverish Florida capers, but they express the same rage over civilization's cynical despoilment of the environment.

Although signs of despoilment were evident by the turn of the century, it wasn't until the 1940's that politicians and residents began the battle to reclaim the lake, which by then was nearing its most polluted stage.

"It reminds me of the American Indian sitting on his horse and thinking of the despoilment of the environment," said Mr. Axinn, a former chairman of the Long Island Nature Conservancy.

Frank Wheat, a securities lawyer who became a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission and also a tireless battler against despoilment of California's deserts, died on July 21 in Los Angeles.

He reaped a vast number of lurid accusations at the hands of Cuban writers who described him as a "man of wax", who was "gross in character, rude in manners, of a profound ambition and greedy for despoilment".

Anti-cult association ADFI criticized the OCC for its methods of seduction, its particular lifestyle (reduced sleep, long prayers, inability to be alone, etc.), possible families breakdowns, its hierarchical structure, psychological pressures and despoilment.

Using excerpts from Carter's notebooks and photographs from the archeological archives, Sunday's program, the first installment of an elaborate four-part documentary on A&E, tells of the riches and the history he found in the ancient tombs despite centuries of despoilment.

Though some churchmen protested, on the whole they accepted royal exactions as the price of protection and corporate power: they saw that the alternative was the wholly unsystematic despoilment and privatisation of church property not only by laymen but by individual ecclesiastics too.

Facing both death and despoilment of his treasure, the Belgian cast about for some plan of escape, and the only one that appealed to him as containing even a remote possibility of success hinged upon the chance of bribing Achmet Zek.

Hearing at times in circuitous fashion of the despoilment of such a farmer, the important men of Romper invariably laughed in contempt of the victim, and if they thought of the wolf at all, it was with a kind of pride at the knowledge that he would never dare think of attacking their wisdom and courage.

In the West, environmental movements sprang up to protest the despoliation of nature.

In school textbooks, the colonial period is painted as one of despoliation and atrocities.

The hippies have grown up and are a powerful lobby against despoliation of the island by too much development.

Awareness of this would ease concern about rural despoliation.

He drew attention to the despoliation occurring in what was considered the last great hope for large-scale habitat preservation.

The consequence of this is the despoliation of farmers, which is my third point.

The plains were open for their despoliation.

Photography itself contributed to the West's despoliation.

Pressure, submission, despoliation, illusion: this is the downward spiral in which European farmers are trapped.

Should we limit, out of simple common sense, the sacrifice imposed to prevent the despoliation of some countries, such as France?

"But it's shocking, it's terrible, the despoliation of our countryside.

At once the babble began again, the screen filling once more with images of riot and despoliation.

Just about all the sins of American business (from environmental despoliation to accounting fraud) can be pinned on the anonymous bureaucracy.

SIR - Even with the current planning regulations there is despoliation of the countryside.

When construction began, Vimy Ridge was still in a state of despoliation.

They descended through galleries marked with the signs of orcish despoliation.

Mr. Schenkkan does have a concern besides the despoliation of America.

Yet the tendencies he lamented, summed up in the phrase "despoliation of land," have accelerated almost out of control.

Though the further south they travelled, the more evidence they saw of human habitation, and of despoliation.

He abandoned the tomb to despoliation.

The same claims of despoliation were made before the development of Prudhoe Bay.

In France many churches and cathedrals suffered despoliation during the French Revolution.

An azure expanse un- tainted by centuries of humankind's despoliation arched over him.

With the despoliation of the monasteries and the scarcity of priests during penal days, old churches were abandoned.

This despoliation was greater than any perpetrated after 1453 by the Turks who, in general, cared well for the structure and revered it as a mosque.