Sentence examples for extirpations from inspiring English sources

"Chytrid is one of the most devastating wildlife diseases with the largest host range of any, and responsible for dozens of species' extinctions and many more extirpations of local populations," Dr. Farrer said.

Chytridiomycosis, described by scientists as "the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates," has so far infected more than 600 amphibian species globally, causing population declines, extirpations or extinctions in more than 200 species.

Surgeons, believing this "centrifugal theory" — cancer's stainlike, outward spread from a central mass — advocated ever-widening surgical extirpations to eliminate cancer.

That reaction may rule out a method said to have been employed earlier to cut the numbers of the (also alien) goats: during the second world war, they were used for target practice.The alien fire ant once faced a campaign of extirpation in the United States.

But it is not wholly surprising, given the continuing rejection and siege, that it did.When the Palestinians decided that they were no longer bent on its extirpation, Israel responded.

They were charged with the discovery and extirpation of heterodox religious opinion and practice in Christian Europe.

Many are extinct or in danger of extirpation.

It is hoped that a greater understanding of malignant cell growth and behaviour will lead to the development of novel cancer therapies based on tumour cell biology that will complement or replace the current treatments of surgical extirpation (complete excision), chemotherapy, and radiation.

Mary's accession temporarily destroyed the English Reformation; Cranmer's embittered enemy Stephen Gardiner was at once released from imprisonment and promoted to the chancellorship, and in November 1554 Cardinal Reginald Pole arrived to occupy Canterbury and direct the extirpation of heresy.

Some scientists use the term extirpation for local extinctions, reserving extinction to mean global extinction.

The rise of National Socialism in Germany in 1933 led to the extirpation of Jewish influence in all spheres of German cultural life.