Sentences with phrase «from despoiling»

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

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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.

Sometimes a menace and sometimes a savior, sometimes a vindictive beast and sometimes an avenger of a despoiled planet, the Japanese thunder lizard has battled everyone from King Kong to Bambi in a 62 - year cinematic history.

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

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.