spoilation

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spoilation - the act of stripping and taking by force

despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoliation, spoil

pillaging, plundering, pillage - the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"

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"Ayres Rock and the Spoilation of Nature," Sydney Bushwalker, October (1976), 8.

The eco-Buddhism of Marie Byles

The political economy of technological underdevelopment in South Africa: Renaissance prospects, global tyranny, and organized spoilation. Lagos, Nigeria: CBAAC.

The informationalization of poverty in Africa? Mobile phones and economic structure

Fitting a lens with a surface treatment that resists spoilation

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Locke, Hegel, and rights to property: examining the unstable ideological architecture of the Canadian law of aboriginal title

"The names and addresses of the suspects were clearly stated in the warrant but were deliberately covered when the warrant was faxed in order to prevent spoilation."

TURKEY-PRESS SCAN (1)

During discovery, ASUS turned over scant information, and Adams suspected spoilation.

Firm fined for poor records management

The application to extract stone was approved at the recent Northumberland County Council planning meeting, so we are now at the start of the second phase of the campaign to save the countryside along the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site from spoilation: the issue of vehicle access.