Examples of despoiling

• We are eating ourselves out of house and home and despoiling our nest into the bargain.

• Even more perilously, it faced the enormous obstacle of this genre of moral tales centered on a "despoiling" plot.

• What is the real reason for the despoiling of the country-side which is taking place in so many beauty spots?

• We cannot continue despoiling the best parts of the country purely to extract sand and gravel.

• We are not talking about vandals, although some of the environmentalists would suggest that foresters are despoiling the countryside.

• However, it is not simply people coming from the towns despoiling the countryside that worries me.

• They are the party of law and order—except when it comes to polluting and despoiling our environment.

• That is a desperately important issue because at present we are despoiling vast amounts of the world's environment.

• They are despoiling one of the largest sources of protein in the world.

• This is the sort of thing which is despoiling our country and using scarce building resources for the wrong type of development.

• Most of the argument one hears today is that in many cases the agricultural community is despoiling the countryside.

• It would not mean despoiling the parks, because we should not have to erect large structures but could use the parks themselves as the amphitheatre.

• I agree that it is essential that property is safeguarded, that damage is not done and that despoiling and destroying are discouraged.

• We are despoiling the edges of our cities with the revolting waste that we seem to generate.

• There are occasions when despoiling of green belt needs to be remedied, and sometimes that is done by the proper use of filling.