Sentences with phrase «who despoils»

«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.

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.

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There are people all over the world who have never doubted the interdependence, inter-relatedness and common welfare of all of creation and who have lived conscious that they have no right to pillage and despoil the earth.

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.

These dudes are just weak overlords who are just seeking the aggrandizement of themselves, their families, friends, associates and concubines who are quicker to despoil their subjects than govern, can't you see?

But you will find few bigger bastards than the overlooked protagonist of Irvin Kershner's Loving, Brooks Wilson (George Segal), a lousy husband and father who has to be among the most self - absorbed suburbanites ever to despoil the screen.

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

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?