Sentences with word «despoliation»

They also include further despoliation of Federal lands with ugly and bird and bat - killing windmills and solar installations that are likely to be abandoned when the Federal subsidies end and the coercion is relaxed.

But the challenge of cleaning up vivid environmental despoliation like untreated sewage and litter is far different than the challenge of building public support to move rapidly away from the unfettered burning of abundant fossil fuels providing more than 80 percent of the world's energy.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

Third, it was not possible to attain a financial model which ended a system regarded as unjust (quantified as between 7 % and 10 % of Catalonia's GDP, figures that led to the use of the term «fiscal despoliation» in political debates), nor respect for the «ordinal principle» once the territorial transfers have been made.

«Our administration has resolved to seize the gauntlet by taking a courageous step to halt the relentless despoliation of our common heritage by some mindless persons.

The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.

Rather than present literal images of present day despoliation, in other words, Heffernan invites us into an imaginary world that exists somewhere between romantic landscape painting, 50's fantasy comics, and our worst anxiety dreams.

A critique of all that the plantation stands for, «Barrier Island» refers to the once wanton despoliation of natural resources and the slave labor involved.

Smithson's «Rundowns» unlocked conceptions of nature because they moved in the opposite direction — performing an act of visceral despoliation which, upon reflection, turned out to beautiful and harmless.

It seems that ocean despoliation is moving ahead of the curve of consumption.

Often the despoliation occurred with amazing rapidity.

From Zen we learn that if Christ's suffering is indeed to be found in the despoliation of the earth, then his suffering, too, is part of our true selves.

The poem begins by describing the despoliation and destruction of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

The scientist Lynn White, for example, has stressed the connection of this idea to the kind of values that have led to our despoliation of the environment.

Along with feminist theologies, as well as thinkers such as Fox and Swimme, process theologians have seen a profound relationship between the substantialist, mechanistic, deterministic view of reality and its unilateral conception of power prevalent in the sciences, the male experience of self - sufficiency, independence, domination, the despoliation of the non-human natural world, and subjugation of women and indigenous peoples traditionally seen as close to nature.

Theologians need to be reflective practitioners or practical theologians as they deal with problems of importance: hunger, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, sexism, racism, anti-Judaism, the despoliation of the environment, the quest for liberation in all its forms, self - consciously as Christians.

Cuomo decided to prohibit fracking in the state a month after his re-election in 2014, but had previously been criticized by backers of the process, who accused him of hindering economic development, as well as opponents convinced he was about to give his blessing to environmental despoliation.

If it can not, no argument of expedience can justify the despoliation of an adjusted ecosystem and the creation of a desert for posterity.

Emphasis on «soft engineering» For instance, the task force suggests adding specific text to the state's Tidal Wetlands Act stating: «It is declared to be the public policy of the state to preserve and protect tidal wetlands and to prevent their despoliation and destruction, giving due consideration to the occurrence of sea level rise that will result in wetlands loss and migration, and to the reasonable economic and social development of the state.»

In case you don't figure out that this story is meant as timely political allegory, there are bill - boarded hints along the way, the most obvious including Kemp holding forth on Nixon's legacy and the despoliation of Paradise.

But there's another reason why, 22 years on, Oliver Stone's sequel to his portrait of Reaganomics in action counts as much less of a despoliation: the original was hardly an acknowledged masterpiece in the first place.

The despoliation of the environment and the imbalance between those who have and those who have not are heartbreaking and only too reminiscent of what passes for reality these days.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Born by Water and Spirit, Ninth and Washington Avenue (2009) in A Despoliation of Water From the Housatonic to Monongahela River (1930 - 2013), 2013.

It became one of many cities and towns along a great river that largely turned their backs on the waterfront because of the despoliation, untreated sewage and pollution.

magazine, which starts as a beautiful portrait of unsullied nature, shifts to a wrenching look at environmental despoliation and ends with a series of images of people, including Mendes, who were slain in resource conflicts.

For me the pipeline, in isolation, is not in the national interest if we have any interest in not contributing, through our driving habits, to the despoliation of far - flung parts of the planet.

But most of the time, the lack of rules and consequences leads to despoliation, and sometimes violence.

And on the same day, a second team of scientists emphasised the same conclusion: work with nature to confront climate change and improve the lives of people in the developing world, put at risk by climate change driven in part by the despoliation of the forests and the degradation of the land.

Related Words burglary, housebreaking; embezzlement, embezzling, graft, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation; petit larceny, petty larceny; filching, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, shoplifting; abduction, carjacking, hijacking (also highjacking), kidnapping (also kidnapping), shanghaiing; despoilment, despoliation, looting, pillage, plundering, raping, spoliation; poaching, rustling; black marketeering, smuggling; banditry, piracy