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wholesale destruction

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wholesale
adjective
adverb
uk /ˈhəʊl.seɪl/ us /ˈhoʊl.seɪl/
of or for the selling of goods in large amounts at low prices to shops and businesses, rather than the selling of goods in shops ...
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destruction
noun[U]
uk /dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/ us /dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the act of destroying something, or the fact of ...
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Second, it led in practical and immediate terms to the wholesaledestruction of cultural goods and to the social regression of entire peoples, ostensibly on behalf of higher values.
They affect an area of only a few kilometres rather than threaten the wholesaledestruction of a nation.
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Have the effects of the wholesaledestruction of some of our most beautiful birds been carefully estimated?
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Why will there be wholesaledestruction of the 1933 machinery?
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Those policies were totally inadequate to prevent the wholesaledestruction and redevelopment of our historic cities, towns and villages.
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Indeed, in some cases, the dispersal or even the wholesaledestruction of opposing civilian populations seems to have become the objective of many conflicts.
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That implies not a wholesaledestruction of sovereignty, but a process of co-ordination.
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Instead of wholesaledestruction, we now have wholesale rehabilitation.
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A war for the promotion of justice and order has no guarantee that justice and order, and not just wholesaledestruction, will emerge.
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Foremost among those problems is the shambles surrounding the wholesaledestruction of the arrangements for community use of school sports facilities.
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In the past 20 years commercial pressures have mounted to such an extent that wholesaledestruction is now in prospect.
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Some reports in the media claimed that the rule will result in wholesaledestruction of hedgerows and other environmentally valuable field margins throughout the country.
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Wholesaledestruction was not large, but most of the estates have suffered in varying degrees through felling of trees for food production or for fuel.
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First, there was the task in which central government played an essential role of halting the wholesaledestruction that was going on.
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The conduct that led to wholesaledestruction there and elsewhere is simply unacceptable.
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They agreed that any scheme involving the wholesaledestruction of houses would be unacceptable.
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I have been to a certain place which has suffered from this on many occasions, and the wholesaledestruction to market garden glass was appalling.
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We should do all we can to see that this kind of wholesaledestruction does not take place.
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There was not the least hurry to bring out this wholesaledestruction of these historic units at this juncture.
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There is also euthanasia, which has already been mentioned, but we think that we can avoid wholesaledestruction.
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