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Synonyms for despoil

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Synonyms for despoil

to rob of goods by force, especially in time of war

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Synonyms for despoil

destroy and strip of its possession

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During the early 1950s, however, a small group of Santa Clara County growers and county planners watched industrialization and urban growth with a mixture of disbelief and anger, particularly since many of the valley's former caretakers were now among its chief despoilers and often considered protestations as attacks on "progress." To this concerned group, Santa Clara's fallen orchards presaged ruination: bulldozers were fashioning an example of rural California's future.
Golwalkar wrote in We, or Our Nationhood Defined 'Ever since that evil day, when Muslims first landed in Hindustan, right up to the present moment, the Hindu nation has been gallantly fighting on to shake off the despoilers.'
The politics of hypocrites and despoilers will be eliminated forever.
Bands performing include Do Not Panic, Slippery People, Bobby Pin, Beatlesque, Herb Helpless and the Marijuana Brass, The Mix and Despoilers.
Which reminds me of the Bible parable about those who were supposed to keep vigil with their lamps but were caught sleeping when the bridegroom came, except that in our case, there was no bridegroom to be expected but a bunch of despoilers to be prevented from regaining foothold.
Climate change seems to develop naturally from an Earth without C[O.sub.2] emitters, big polluters and ecological despoilers. Furthermore, the film suggests that attempts to organize social life after capitalism in ways that rationally plan resource allocation will lead to flesh-eating: forced scarcity motivates people to literally consume each other.
The despoilers of the environment are the multinational corporations with politicians in their pocket, real-estate developers, mining companies, highway engineers, the army, and innumerable land and property owners large and small looking only for profit in a free market economy.
Albeit different methods are used, the same result is obtained in Noua (1972), by Abdelaziz Tolbi, and in Les spoliateurs [The Despoilers, 1972] by Lamine Merbah.
Clearly, the voters want waters cleaned and protected, even if the despoilers and their political chums don't.
Entrepreneurs have tended to be marginalised or demonised in Welsh history books, because all-too often they were incoming English exploiters and despoilers. But Wales has had more than its fair share of world leaders in the sphere of business and commerce.
The prophets continually hurl threats and curses on the despoilers of the widows and the orphan, the exploiter of the poor and the weak, as does the modern radical.(25)"'While Frank's work rarely deals with explicit Jewish matter, his exposes of fractured America at times make important social comments.
These improvident behemoths are very heavily subsidised and generate little, other than profit for the manufacturers and income for those leasing the land on which stand these consummate bird killers and natural beauty despoilers. Twitchers flocking recently to the Outer Hebrides to sight a rare bird recorded only eight times in 170 years were horrified to see it killed by a turbine.
The oil companies as despoilers are therefore at the heart of the male-image that becomes displaced and aligned with a similar image provoked by other characters.
Burroughs was a genius ahead of his negative times, in synchrony with earlier Dadaists and Surrealists and other language despoilers and their cultish allies fascinated with literary puzzles and fond of vicarious romps in the literary wilds.