depredation

How To Use depredation In A Sentence

• Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
• What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
• MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless; Rob Roy
• These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.). Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
• Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result.
• The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
• However, the Department of Fish and Game does issue what are known as depredation permits which allows the killing of these animals under certain conditions, usually when they pose a danger to livestock or people. Cheri Shankar: Mountan Lion Cub Poses Imminent Danger?
• That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
• The deeper problems in the art market have to do with the depredations of the auction houses.
• The trouble began in the spring of 1846, when some student depredations were traced to a small log house situated in the depths of what was then known as the Black Forest, the deep wood which extended far east of the Campus. The University of Michigan