He was, in Scruton's memory, a harsh man; he would not allow his children to read Beatrix Potter because, he claimed, "it polluted the image of the countryside with cosy bourgeois sentiment and turned our wild Saxon inheritance into a suburban fairytale".
A lot of environmentalists oppose it, because it's polluting the atmosphere to create a kind of shade to diminish the greenhouse effect.
Although its original price tag was less than $15 million, it required so many repairs and refinancings that it was saddled with $94 million in debt by the time the federal government shut it down in 2003 because it was polluting the air with dioxin.
Big Lou Lynch is an irritating optimist — in the view of some of the less charitable characters, a doofus, a man who dismisses fears that the local tannery will close, because it has polluted the town's river with cancer-causing chemicals, on the ground that if it does people will have nowhere to work.
Ms. Brown said her group wanted to stop exploitation of shale gas in Britain because it risked polluting the water and "industrializing the countryside".
I had a wonderful time on Marilyn, a wonderful time on Birdsong and, hopefully, I'll have a wonderful time on this [he brandishes the yellow highlighter-heavy script for Richard II sitting on the table in front of him] so I'm trying not to think outside of that because it can pollute the experience".
Purists wage war against the Spanish bluebell, Hyacinthoides hispanica (35cm, flowers April-May), because it hybridises freely and pollutes the native stock.
Organic farming is environmentally sustainable because it doesn't pollute the environment.
Because it's powered by solar panels, it doesn't pollute the air -- and because the summer sun doesn't fall beneath the horizon, the rover can operate day and night.
