despoiled


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Synonyms for despoiled

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

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"Yes, my lord cardinal; yes, madame," replied Louis XIV., tearing the parchment which Mazarin had not yet ventured to clutch; "yes, I annihilate this deed, which despoiled a whole family.
Then they vowed that even as they themselves had been despoiled they would despoil their oppressors, whether baron, abbot, knight, or squire, and that from each they would take that which had been wrung from the poor by unjust taxes, or land rents, or in wrongful fines.
You deserve to be poor, to see the environment despoiled, and to watch your children receive a fourth-rate education.
You deserve to be poor, to see the environment despoiled and to watch your children receive a fourth-rate education.
I WAS brought up in a locality where the natural environment has been despoiled by industrialisation to an extent rarely, if ever, equalled elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
The topics include the desire to keep saying yes, a certain capaciousness and "the routine things around the house," the despoiled and radiant now, a manifesto of the spiritual and the sacred, the poet's women and the ordinary mysteries, leaving everything behind in "The Affair," double-teaming, Mount Holyoke 1992, the revision process, scattered notes on a coherent poet, and the quarrel.
With wind turbines viewed by many as having despoiled parts of Northumberland already, there will be concern for the beauty and peace of its famed coastline.
Linthorpe Road, Albert Road and Newport Road all despoiled by planners." Of course he refers to those councillors who sit on the planning committee.
The PCOT Secretary General also stressed the need to fundamentally revise the tax system, to impose a wealth tax, to suspend for three years the payment of the debt and to speed up the recovery of the despoiled assets abroad.
Injustice not only in the form of wrecked lives and despoiled earth, but also in the lies and cover-ups that needlessly worsened the risk.
Summary: Rabat - The polisario despoiled Sahrawis of their right and proclaimed itself as their representative by taking the intense propaganda led by the Algerian diplomacy over the past three decades as a basis , said Lahcen Mahraoui, member of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) and spokesperson of the Moroccan Sahrawi Tribes in Europe Association.
In my opinion the developers only interest is to make a quick profit and leave the local community with despoiled green fields and an eyesore industrial estate.
What does Grade 1 listing for Bute Park mean, if so lightly despoiled? Likewise, massive overdevelopment (aptly likened by a local councillor to a "filing cabinet with windows") in a conservation area at St Winefride's Nursing Home site in Romilly Crescent was approved against the wishes of more than 1,400 local residents expressed through petition or other means.
It is an abomination that the memorial to recognise the sacrifices they made for future generations should have been despoiled in such a disgusting manner.