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The last one of these consisted of providing this portion of the channel, as well as part of the connecting channel with a new cover of spoliated materials from the surroundings buildings.

Upper Agora: Report 1 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

WALKER: Well, Larry, the problem with many of these cases with the cruise lines is the evidence is spoliated at such an early date -- you know, if you look at that photograph of that awning covered with blood, if something like that happened in your studio, you could figure out quite easily how to put a tarp over it, how to keep the cleaning crews away.

CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2005 2005

Other structures, such as the theatre and the late Hellenistic Doric fountain house, were never spoliated, despite being located outside the city wall.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 15 2003

Some buildings, such as the Tiberian gateway of the Lower Agora, was partially spoliated after the earthquake around A.D. 500 had leveled most of it, in order to build structures immediately adjacent to them and even a new monumental stairway leading to the Lower Agora.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 15 2003

_ "De male quæsitis," &c. _ -- Spelman's striking argument, that spoliated church property is seldom enjoyed for more than three generations, seems but a special application of a general principle, --

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

This was accomplished on December 4, 1787, and of the twenty-one missions which were spoliated in later years,

Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions Maria Antonia Field

A spoliated or destroyed will may be proven, and its directions carried out, where it was destroyed or lost subsequent to the death of the testator or to his becoming incapable of making a will by reason of insanity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

In cases of robbery and usurpation, nothing is an object of gratitude except the thing stolen, the charter spoliated.

I. A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence 1906

Churches have been ransacked, altars spoliated, tombs desecrated, priests and curates murdered; but that is not enough.

The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The extent to which the continent of Africa has been spoliated and delimitated by Europeans is shown in the fact that of 11,360,000 square miles of territory, all of it has been absorbed or is claimed except the 9,700 square miles controlled by Liberia on the west coast.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896