There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled. |
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By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources. |
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Since arriving back, he said he seen numerous examples of beauty spots being despoiled. |
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It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled. |
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Some of the country's finest beaches are despoiled during the summer, with discarded nappies, bottles, crisp packets and even animal carcases. |
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His father's fate is echoed in the stories of despoiled artefacts and the laughter of orphaned children. |
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The ablest officials rarely despoiled their reputations by engaging with them. |
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Environmentalists say the forests of South-East Asia have been massively despoiled and are warning west African governments not to follow suit. |
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A century from now, much more of the world will likely have been despoiled. |
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They must also search for the dead and prevent their remains from being despoiled. |
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They have been deceived and despoiled so many times that they invest much effort in getting to know the people they're dealing with well. |
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A culture can be spread through influence or by gift, and it can be destroyed if it is despoiled. |
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When we say the poor, the socially poor or the economically poor we want to say those who are lacking everything, are despoiled of all. |
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When I spotted a deer on a hike, I took it as a sort of assurance that not everything has been despoiled and that the natural order remains at least somewhat intact. |
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Inflows of foreign capital are discouraged when tourist sites become despoiled. |
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In 2004 and 2005, for instance, MBDHP supported two young girls in recovering inheritance of which they had been despoiled. |
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A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. |
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This Epano Englianos palace, together with dependent despoiled tombs, appears to match closely the dignity and position of the royal seat as described by Homer. |
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The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics. |
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My group's sympathy goes out to the people of Brittany who have seen their area despoiled by this disaster, just as my group's sympathy went out to the people of West Wales and to the Shetland Islands on previous occasions. |
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But they can be despoiled or killed, not to be renewed in mortal time. |
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Forests have been despoiled by uncontrolled cutting and by fire. |
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Member States should develop policies and programmes for restoration of natural areas made derelict by industry, or otherwise despoiled by man's activities. |
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First of all, the Canada which these soldiers defended was not the same country that later was coerced, manipulated, despoiled, altered and tormented without Quebec's consent. |
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Thus despoiled, I shall remain in the museum of the world, reminding all who pass, not of misery and nothingness, but of the greatness of the Divine Mercies. |
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This contains named files of despoiled people, including the following main documents: lists of looted property, photos, ownership certificates, receipt letter in the event of restitution, letters and German documents. |
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The mausoleum was despoiled by the Goths in 410 during the Sack of Rome, and his ashes were scattered. |
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They subjected and despoiled the peasants and the men of the villages. |
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The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom. |
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Conditions in Normandy were unsettled, as noble families despoiled the Church and Alan III of Brittany waged war against the duchy, possibly in an attempt to take control. |
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