Despoils

Julia Child grew up on Pasadena Avenue, just a few blocks from the start of the parade, and practically everything Ms. Deen has done both exploits and despoils the culinary movement Child did so much to prod into being. ❋ Colin Sterling (2010)

"The bulk of the proposed new building significantly destroys the continuity of the elegant decorative historic street wall and despoils the special aesthetic character of the Ladies' Mile Historic District streetscape," said a resolution at the time from the community board. ❋ Laura Kusisto (2011)

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Batley is a suitably cold-blooded seducer, and Pippa Moore delivers a beguiling and deftly layered performance as Madame de Tourvel, the married woman whose virtue he despoils to win a bet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But "while that was music to the ears of everyone in the audience here in Port Sulphur, LA," Kirstner reports, after 3 months of failed attempts at plugging the BP oil rig blowout, all are cautious that this time it really worked, and most are deeply troubled by all the oil that has been spewed and now despoils the Gulf, one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ravenous, he mows the lawn of her salad; despoils her delicate capers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The book "describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies 'broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore," according to Chelsea Green. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And once the oil company despoils the oceans with millions of gallons of black goop, or the criminally greedy mining company allows its workers to perish in an unsafe mine, government must intervene to restore a regulatory framework and rein in corporate excess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hope is that they would trap incoming oil before it despoils the islands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is the “Stronger One” who ties the “strong man” the devil and despoils him. ❋ Suzanne (2010)

Mandelson: having this dishonest man in government despoils public life ❋ Unknown (2008)

The book "describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies' broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore," according to Chelsea Green. ❋ The Media Consortium (2010)

This history records that nations rage and peoples rise up together — that war sets brother against brother, despoils the land, and rends the social fabric; it counsels that you go to war with a heavy heart, for the truly good war has never been fought. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the other hand, if having non-Hindus in the property despoils it, then would that decrease its value as a Hindu temple? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The despoilation of the [young] from [the mother]. ❋ Larstait (2003)