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- adjective
wholesale (extensive)
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Examples
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This wholescale bashing of Constellation is like Pandora's box, where once it opens we don't know what may come out.
Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009
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Britain's prisons face wholescale privatisation, fear unions.
Private sector prisons are an eye-watering scandal, union tells justice ministry 2011
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However, if Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude's plans for wholescale mutualisation of public services are to be delivered, a number of key considerations need to be addressed quickly.
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Peter Keating is the prize-winning architecture student from Stanton College, a man whose eagerness to please is coupled with a wholescale acceptance of current, orthodox taste and a ferocious ambition to succeed.
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Any solutions for so big a crowd of people have to be more subtle than wholescale victimisation and rescue.
Getting Mainstream Attention – Judging Trafficking Evidence « Bound, Not Gagged 2008
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When I said “overthrown” I meant overthrown: not merely new federal rights in certain areas, but a wholescale assumption of all state common law and the destruction of the useless state judiciary systems which are now superceded by the Federal one.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense? 2009
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This extinction caused a wholescale transformation of the Eastern deciduous forest ecosystem, which was dominated by American chestnut.
Invasive species 2009
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A good case has been made that one of the major reasons for the poor healing during both the Great Depression and the present downturn is the fact that both coincided with a clownishly arrogant fad for wholescale random government meddling in the movements of capital.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rise and Fall of Supply-Side Economics 2009
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This includes putting up a big STOP sign for the wholescale destruction that threatens a number of our major parks promised by the 2016 Olympic bid.
Tom Tresser: "You Have No Standing": The Story of the Latin School Lincoln Park Land Grab 2008
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But not the wholescale transfer from food to fuel that's happening at present.
Will there be 'Biofuel' food riots? Glyn Davies 2008
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