Sentence examples for spoliation from inspiring English sources
The word 'spoliation' is correct and can be used in written English
It is a noun that means the intentional or reckless destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence that may be relevant to a legal or investigative proceeding. Example: The defense team argued that the spoliation of the surveillance footage by the prosecution was an attempt to hide incriminating evidence.
noun
The act of plundering or spoiling; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.
A year later, "La Ronde de Nuit" explored the nature of the French Gestapo and its role in the spoliation of Jewish property.
Pending the Soviet entry into the war against Japan, a declaration was issued on July 26 calling on Japan to surrender unconditionally and forecasting the territorial spoliation of the empire and the military occupation of Japan proper as well as the prosecution of war criminals, yet still promising that the Japanese people would not be enslaved or the nation destroyed.
A contentious royalist press bitterly denounced the policies of the Assembly as spoliation and the Revolutionary atmosphere as a form of anarchy.
After the war several company officials were convicted of war crimes (nine being found guilty of plunder and spoliation of property in occupied territory and four being found guilty of imposing slave labour and inhumane treatment on civilians and prisoners of war).
When I saw "Koyaanisqatsi" in college, I dismissed it as a trippy, slick, MTV-ish thing, to which some well-meaning soul had attached hippie messages about the mechanization of existence and the spoliation of the planet.
McClellan was hailed as a hero for saving northwestern Virginia from "destruction and spoliation".
In spoliation matters as well as in the wide scope of defining who was a Jew and then arresting victims in both zones, Vichy led the way.
They all needed for their spoliations a kind of legitimacy, which was so conveniently available in the long-accepted authority of the Mughal emperor.
Again, to memorialize a message, he sired a son on the "prophetess" (his wife) and saddled the child with his message as a name: Maher-shalal-hash-baz ("Speed-spoil-hasten-plunder"), referring to the imminent spoliations by the Assyrians.
In this way, La Spoliation stands out from earlier public displays of the Holocaust in France, and as a result reactions in France have been striking.
The licence is the subject of a newly published report by the Spoliation Advisory Panel, the body that examines claims made for the recovery of UK artworks alleged to have been looted by the Nazis.
