Examples of salvage

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Chapter 5 then considers whether the appropriation doctrine could have been, and could yet be, salvaged within the common law.
Among the objects salvaged were gold dishes, weighing a pound each, with the image of the emperor on them.
By 1640 the situation was explosive, exacerbated by propagandists who salvaged images from previous decades.
Every individual entity is beautiful, perhaps - but that leaves ugliness in plenty to be transformed or salvaged.
Such ischaemic tissues may only be salvaged by recirculation.
One last-resort attempt at salvaging structuralism indeed distinguished between the true scientific uses of structures and the merely ideological ones.
His millenarianism thus emerged as a way of salvaging his apocalyptic aspirations for an eventual happy terrestrial future.
The central question was what could be salvaged.
The waning notion of literature's self-sufficiency is simultaneously threatened and salvaged.
He harmonizes the apparently contradictory explanations and salvages his simile by alleging that both explanations are correct and can coexist.
From the ruins of this quarrelsome period he salvages a surprisingly coherent body of ideas, articulated through the writings of forgotten second- and third-tier intellectuals.
They now served as scenery, and the rise of photography, with its ethnographic devotion to salvaging mementos of a lost frontier, would not save them.
The urban middle-class 'reformers' were incensed by the fact that the farmers had salvaged a part of the traditional economic fabric in the retirement contracts.
Under such conditions, any information about the site that can be salvaged is regarded as a bonus.
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