Sentence examples for collective demolition from inspiring English sources

Their collective demolition was to have lasted just 15 seconds, in an event described as the biggest of its kind ever seen in Europe.

Human rights groups said the demolitions were collective punishment.

The activists said the demolitions were collective punishment for the actions of a minority of militants.

"House demolitions constitute collective punishment, and are contrary to both international law and the basic precept of Israeli law that a person must not be punished for the acts of others," say the group.

When the revered graffiti holy place named 5Pointz in Queens, New York was buffed and slated officially for demolition last fall the collective response of the graffiti/street art fan base and community was horror and lament.

They claimed the demolitions were a "collective punishment" that would backfire.

Among the collective actions caused by inner-city demolition, this was the first case asserting the actors' entitlement to property rights and citizenship instead of cash or housing.

The demolitions documented seem designed as collective punishment, say the report's authors.

It can only provoke them more by resorting to house demolitions or other measures of collective punishment.

Punitive demolitions are a form of collective punishment, where the house of someone who has carried out an crime, usually an alleged attempted stabbing attack against an Israeli citizen, is demolished.

This year's Turner prize has been won by an architecture-design collective for their work on houses earmarked for demolition in Liverpool.