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If you are left alone, that quality of education you are boasting about will crumble and dilapidate.

Obama, Peres and Colbert on the Persian New Year - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The blatant lies of their elites continue to dilapidate the little crumbs that are still left, of what was once the "Great American Dream," - and has now become the "Great American Nightmare."

Framing the $700 Billion Question 2008

The church of Elgin had, in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages, been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief, whom the bishop had offended; but it was gradually restored to the state, of which the traces may be now discerned, and was at last not destroyed by the tumultuous violence of Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

In this manner innumerable low ruffians have obtained the estates and houses of their lords; but, faithful to their old habits and early origin, they abuse only what they possess; live in the stables, and convert the castle into a barn, a granary, a brew-house, a manufactory, or sometimes dilapidate it brick by brick, as their convenience may require.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

They tax the country according to their pleasure, and dilapidate the estates of the

A Legend of Montrose 1871

They were too prone to dilapidate and destroy their dwellings; they were therefore required to pay for the locks, cupboards, and doors.

The History of Tasmania , Volume II John West 1840

The story of the second, or scapegoat, Virgil would be much damaged by the character given to the real bishop, if there were anything in it to dilapidate.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Dumouriez grumbles and they dilapidate abroad: within the walls there is sinning, and without the walls there is sinning.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

It looks like Cheney/Bus Titus Pullo 11 minutes ago 11:24 AM "Iraq has been importing refined products since 2003 because of the dilapidate ­d refining sector and booming local demand."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Taking a middle point of time between the Parthian revolution and the fatal overthrow of Forum Terebronii, we may fix upon the reign of Philip the Arab, [who naturalized himself in Rome by the appellation of Marcus Julius,] as the epoch from which the Roman empire, already sapped and undermined by changes from within, began to give way, and to dilapidate from without.

The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822