Denudes

Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes. ❋ DAVID MARANISS (2010)

My hope is that President Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Divorcing poems from conversations, conducted by professors or laymen alike, critical or otherwise, denudes them of their ritual functions as art, communal works of literary art. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But stretching language in this way, writes Mr. Wittes, "is a kind of double-talk that denudes law of meaning and renders the presidency morally laughable." ❋ Unknown (2008)

This practice denudes the hillsides of trees, increases erosion and sedimentation of rivers, and deprives wildlife of their habitats. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In contrast the savanna sub-species (Loxodonta africana africana) occupies the savanna woodlands where it denudes trees and suppresses sapling growth, effectively creating a more fire-prone system. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Coupling this with Ehud Olmert's recent admission that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal denudes the deeply duplicitous agenda of the United States (and its allies) and further destabilizes our world in a profound way. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At one point in the novel, after his CDF uniform has frayed to rags, St. Hubbins denudes an entire Covandian forest to make himself a leafy-green tunic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of course, if he denudes the book of its value as art, all that can remain in his cramped little mind is a perception of pornography. ❋ Shunn (2007)

Not because I said so, but because it forcibly denudes another of their rights. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This denudes the country-side of women, disrupting the rural economy by depriving it of the unpaid labour women perform (cooking, threshing, tailoring, etc.). ❋ Padraig (2003)

The universally accepted key element of poverty is that poverty denudes one of self-esteem and dignity. ❋ Unknown (2000)

But one of my objections to this is that it denudes freedom of any real substantive meaning. ❋ Unknown (1998)

She wears a white gown with a gold ring at the front The enemy players seek to lay hold of this gold ring; a single pull denudes the sheirl. ❋ Vance, Jack (1973)

The yogi who thus denudes the universe is the only true monotheist. ❋ Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 (1935)

It pisses me off that the cement company decided to denude our [town's] beautiful [hillside] and then turn it into a [gravel pit]. ❋ Sotit (2013)