Depending on who's talking, residents and officials alternately regard the power plant as everything from an environmental nightmare to an attractive nuisance, an obsolete industrial site with a useful purpose long since passed, to an irreplaceable monument to industry and technology.
Like Isis before them, the new force seems determined to violate all standards of behaviour, launching napalm attacks on villagers, attacking dams – even, like Isis, blowing up irreplaceable archaeological monuments.
"They are about the destruction of irreplaceable historic monuments, and they are about a callous assault on the dignity and identity of entire populations, and their religious and historical roots".
As the plans for the High Dam were drawn up, worldwide attention focused on the many valuable and irreplaceable ancient monuments that would be destroyed by the waters of Lake Nasser.
"Think about ISIS, what they did, they pillaged and they wiped away irreplaceable historical and religious monuments," said the Fox News host.
Nowadays, the HFA was replaced by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 2030 (SFDRR, http://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/sendai-framework), which explicitly recognized the importance of preserving architectural heritage and ancient monuments, and the irreplaceable value for society of historical and cultural heritage.
The role of the port of Venice in the economy of the city is central and irreplaceable.The growth of Venice and the construction of its monuments were possible in past centuries only because of the port's revenues.
The proposed Bears Ears National Monument will finally afford an opportunity to protect Bears Ears' irreplaceable antiquities in situ, doing so collaboratively with regional tribes while providing a place for mediation of this nation's values and knowledges.
Like our celebrated National Park System of irreplaceable ecological, cultural and historic treasures, we need a representative "system" of marine sanctuaries and monuments to protect the vast treasures of our oceans.
That's exactly what members of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives group did towards the end of World War II to make sure that irreplaceable artwork wasn't destroyed in bombing raids or by retreating Nazi forces, hoping to insure that the shared heritage of the Western world Would continue to be studied and appreciated by future generations.
