Sentence examples for despoilment from inspiring English sources

So what's this woefully insufficient tribute come to, such that Mr Saverin may be so bitterly denounced for exploitation and despoilment?

In Huntsman and Dogs of 1891, set in a cheerless autumnal landscape, a sullen-faced young hunter, pausing on a hillside leveled by timbering and blackened by fire, epitomizes human despoilment of nature, in the killing for sport rather than for food.

Garfield tells us that even the democratising arrival of the adhesive stamp in 1840 was viewed by some as a despoilment.

Even those who agree with his condemnation of the United States, say, and what he believes has been its role in a century-long regime of exploitation and despoilment, will likely feel betrayed by the cornball language of his complaint.

Some of those memorable sights indicate ecological despoilment.

She's playing opposite Richard Harris (dubbed into Italian) as a rootless mining engineer, a self-professed socialist, in the neighbourhood to recruit a team of skilled artisans to work on a project that may well bring a similar mindless prosperity and despoilment to remote Patagonia.

At first, it's a gradual despoilment, but it becomes ever more rapid.

Frank Wheat, a securities lawyer who became a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission and also a tireless battler against despoilment of California's deserts, died on July 21 in Los Angeles.

A generally affable man, Mr. Stevens categorically, unconditionally refuses to divulge the name of the island, fearing that publicity will lead to the despoilment of his hideaway.

But the despoilments continued.

But he also practiced his own form of private resistance to what he saw as aesthetic despoilments in public life, as when, in his last years, suffering from scoliosis and walking with great difficulty, he "refused to take a taxi, preferring to take two buses with a transfer at Montparnasse.... Traveling to the office in the morning and returning in the evening took two hours".