Definitions
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- noun the act of stripping and taking by force
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Examples
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You need to detox from those voices, the work, the whole London despoilation.
Robin Robertson on the second rate, what to read, disharmony, and Art 2009
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It is a trap that causes us to be complicit, if not aware, with those who profit from our own noetic despoilation.
Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos Eric Simpson 2011
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It is a trap that causes us to be complicit, if not aware, with those who profit from our own noetic despoilation.
Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos Eric Simpson 2011
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You need to detox from those voices, the work, the whole London despoilation.
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The only course left to us, is to do the impossible - to abandon the paradigm of capitalism that has defined our cultural, political and economic life for the past 250 years, and whose supremacy has led inexorably to the despoilation of our planet and demeaning of human existence.
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin: Our Oil Reserves Are Depleted; It's Time for Utopia 2009
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See the history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America: Robber barons, greedy monopolists, exploitation of workers, child labor, sweat shops, environmental despoilation in the name of profits, economic suppression of the working class, all for the miserly profits of a few big tycoons.
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They didn't tell you about the whole smallpox in the blankets and forced march to internment and despoilation of the forests part of that new arrangement, did they?
The Sacred Domain Hal Duncan 2006
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See the history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America: Robber barons, greedy monopolists, exploitation of workers, child labor, sweat shops, environmental despoilation in the name of profits, economic suppression of the working class, all for the miserly profits of a few big tycoons.
The True Cost of Free Markets? Patrick Vessey 2008
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Or go to just about anywhere on that subcontinent where a Walmart is being protested for land theft, encroachment and despoilation.
Epochal Transformation Accelerates as Global Financial Matrix Disintegrates 2008
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Or go to just about anywhere on that subcontinent where a Walmart is being protested for land theft, encroachment and despoilation.
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