Sentences with word «despoiling»

Human sin — our sin, my sin and the tennis - racket solution for bats — all spill over to the massive despoiling of nature.

There will also be lots of jobs in trying to clean up the tailings ponds and despoiled landscape of the Athabasca.

The technician could not despoil nature as he does today.

The real issue there is that we risk despoiling natural places just so we can ignore the need to conserve / engineer our way out of oil dependence for a few months to a few years more.

It is farcical to hear anthems of victimhood being spouted by corporate swindlers who despoil shareholders of their pensions, or by indicted politicians who cloak themselves in the imagery of martyrs for the Christian faith.

Scientists suspect that, on balance, mosquitoes don't contribute much of anything to the ecosystem, other than fending off humans from despoiling rain forests.

Anybody who has seen a satellite image of Prudhoe Bay will know that ANWR will be despoiled if drilled.

We don't have to create an entire command economy to take a big stick to a company that actively delayed a response to global warming by funding climate change deniers, that continues to fight payment of damages for despoiling the Prince William Sound after 20 years, and has proved again and again it can't be trusted to protect our environment.

I could talk about the guy on the Great Wall of China, his garbage, and how I don't want my home to suffer a similar despoiling, but what can I do against 8 million other New Yorkers?

Tourism, conducted on the basis of flexible morals, will «if unchecked despoil the environment, denude culture and denigrate sexual morality» as is happening in Indonesia with the 4 million tourists at present in 1996, expected to rise to 6 million in 1998.

The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled;... The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers;...

That local ecologies despoiled and poisoned are impossible to recover, and that the poor of the developing world constitute the vast majority of its immediate victims?

It is undoubtly upon the laws of Sparta where money was prohibited that the principles of these ecclesiastical governments are founded, with the difference that the prelates reserve for themselves the use of the wealth of which they most devoutly despoil their subjects.

«49He has already despoiled the principalities and powers in the victory of the cross yet he remains the embattled Christ, contending with all things which stand in the way of God's fulfillment of His redemptive work.50 Professor John Knox summarizes the Biblical view of our human situation after Christ has entered our history in the life and death of Jesus:

Scripture, if it has any view on the matter, seems to suggest that those who abide by the laws of God will hold their territory even against superior forces, whereas those who desert those laws will find themselves carted off into captivity, and their vineyards and cities despoiled.

Methodic doubt despoils both sea and land, Erases human hearts nor lets us bodily be.

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

The need is for German Christians to testify before the world to the guilt of the Fatherland in invading and despoiling Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Russia, France, etc..

In a word, the heretics so sought to protect the glory of God that they found it impossible to associate God and suffering, and they thereby despoiled God of his supreme glory, which is his suffering love.

Terrible goblins are coming to despoil New York's Adirondack Mountains.

Where is the honour in despoiling the good name of Nadine Dorries by alleging that she had a «one night stand» with another Tory MP?

That's because most of the human race has no intention of patiently waiting for an unspecified apocalypse and has already gotten a head start on mass despoiling.

Of course, we now know in doing that we are also despoiling the environment, strengthening petro dictatorships, driving biodiversity loss, et cetera.

In a long, striking scene early in the film, one that reminds us of Schrader's skills as a writer, the young man and Toller discuss the ways humanity is rapidly despoiling the earth and the planet's bleak future prospects.

The year (and original title of the project) is 1000 A.E. — that is, a thousand years after humankind has departed Earth for less environmentally despoiled pastures.

While the extraction of oil from the Niger delta enriched the government and the oil companies, it left the delta's people more impoverished and their lands and water despoiled.

Responsible companion animal guardians will make sure that their pets do not disturb others or despoil public property.

Kaari Upson's recent domestic scenes — upended sofas and despoiled rolls of paper towels at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and now the GOOD THING YOU ARE NOT ALONE show on the third floor of the New Museum — depict America as a big - box store gone to seed.

It appears too in the frequent images from nature, often clearly despoiled, like a longing for a purer, safer Earth.

And yet, new realities, disasters, or despoiled areas can possess their own sense of tragic, unexpected beauty.»

Perhaps the Energy Company of the Year has to also prove that it's willing to despoil foreign countries and then scoff at local residents who want them to pay for cleanup costs?

For decades, Mr. Choi has consistently opposed destructive environmental practices in Korea, whether they are from rampant production of nuclear facilities with its inherent byproduct of excessive and dangerous nuclear waste or the widespread increase of toxic byproducts despoiling the air and water of Korea due to unchecked expansion of manufacturing facilities.

The research also notes that such a massive human intervention would undoubtedly despoil Antarctica's uniquely preserved coastal ecosystems and, thus, violate the Antarctic Treaty.

Let me ask a different question: is there any level of environmental despoiling which is unsustainable?

The big question is whether nations will commit to concrete steps that will actually change the course of the global economy so that humanity doesn't keep despoiling the planet, overconsuming natural resources, avert climate change, deploy non-polluting energy sources, all while attempting to reduce poverty and reduce income and energy inequality.

When the wind farms are located at distant sites — a typical occurrence because that's where the wind happens to blow strongest — the immense transmission corridors needed to carry the power to urban markets consume more land, despoiling farm and cottage country in the process.

Construction will sometimes require scraping native vegetation down to bare soil, despoiling fragile, carbon - sequestering ecosystems.

Consider this: in order to fulfill its own political / resource agenda, the government has allowed Kinder Morgan, based in Houston, Texas, to cut down trees, drill holes and generally despoil a public conservation area.

Just last year, the Director of Naples's storied Girolamini Library was arrested for systematically despoiling the library he had been appointed to keep safe and trying to sell the books in the antiquarian market.

It includes the natural environment as exploited and despoiled by sin.

What gives Christians the right to erect hideous 40 foot tall crosses on hilltops, despoiling natural vistas, all across America?

«Unsettled Landscapes» will plumb the thorny question of land and the meaning of land — who owns it, who sells it, who depends on it, who exploits it, who draws arbitrary lines across it, who despoils it, who defends it, who holds it sacred, and why.

Degraded, despoiled landscapes are ugly.