Peter Drucker called this vested interest in despoiling employees an "unforgivable social crime" on the part of America's management class. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Unfortunately, however, nations do not choose to engage in despoiling others, when the objective is strong and able to defend itself, but rather delays until the victim is under a handicap and certain to be more or less easily subjugated. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Stronger, braver, and craftier than his brothers, he cherished the idea of despoiling them and his sisters of their possessions, and becoming the sole successor of his father. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling. ❋ E. Nina Rothe (2011)
Arthur is despondent at the prospect that his life's work, i.e. despoiling women and Manhattan, will be interrupted. ❋ John Anderson (2011)
With a shortage of tribeswomen, and an insatiable lust setting our loins ablaze, we decided to form a raiding party, with the intention of despoiling the neighboring conan. com forums. ❋ Cromsblood (2009)
And so for the sin that we have sinned against You by despoiling Your Creation, forgiving God, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement. ❋ Rabbi Lawrence Troster (2011)
By working with nature rather than despoiling nature, Ray Anderson has led his company to high levels of success and profitability. ❋ Paula Gordon (2011)
But does the modern-day despoiling of the Egyptians really include Playboy? ❋ Unknown (2009)
A civilization which values -- and indeed consistently rewards -- aggression and reckless self-seeking rather than team work, ethical conduct, conciliation and compassion will end up despoiling the earth for short term profit, going to war for oil and economic dominance, creating an obscenely rich 1 percent at the expense of an increasingly impoverished 99 percent -- and, perhaps worst of all, it will produce unprecedented levels of human misery and spiritual unfulfillment. ❋ Richard Schiffman (2011)
Apparently there are over a million in the outback, doubling their numbers every nine years, and despoiling the ecosystems, water supplies, and Aboriginal resources. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike the brutish commander he played in "Avatar," Mr. Lang is a good guy here, dedicated to giving greedy, despoiling mankind a second chance to get things right. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)
Sure, we see a little of this in real life: in communities where you might encounter spoiled rich kids growing up in lives free of consequence, or in the financial sector with corporate raiders and morally bankrupt execs despoiling businesses, annihilating the savings of the little guy, crippling the economy and leaving thousands without jobs, then walking away with fat bonuses and pensions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bowen's From Our Own Correspondent report, on the Jewish settlement of Har Homa, drew objections that he unfairly portrayed settlers as despoiling land which his programme implied wrongly, many objectors felt actually belonged to Palestinians. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The despoilation of the [young] from [the mother]. ❋ Larstait (2003)
