Sentences with phrase «bulldozed during»

Mozambique's Gorongosa Mountain means «place of danger» — fitting for a remote rainforest that saw its biodiversity bulldozed during 15 years of civil war late last century.

Your not wrong, I remember a good number of years back we would give our say on Stokes footballing abilities leading up to a game and I remember thinking that they will use those headlines hanging on locker room wall against us and then we would get bulldozed during the game.

Not exact matches

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

Lawyer Addison, who led the NPP's legal team during the 2012 election petition, has been accused by his opponents of seeking to use foul means to bulldoze his way through following his relationship with the flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo.

Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000 - year - old ziggurat at Iraq's Nimrud.

Traversing up the «roads» made out of bulldozed mountain debris pressed down by tire tracks, it is easy to see why the pass is closed during the winter.

A «grey» area during apartheid, it was declared white and bulldozed, forcing 60 000 people of «colour» on to the Cape Flats.

I wonder whether the seed collection they starved to protect during WWII was in fact bulldozed last year by developers as expected; anybody know?