extirpation

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• Invasions of garlic mustard are causing local extirpations of the toothworts, and chemicals in garlic mustard appear to be toxic to the eggs of the butterfly, as evidenced by their failure to hatch when laid on garlic mustard plants.
• The extirpation of Protestantism was another favourite object of Austrian policy: and the cruelties perpetrated with this view by George Basta and the other imperial generals at the beginning of the century was such, that a general rising took place under Stephen Boczkai, then waiwode of Transylvania, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
• _Endolaryngeal extirpation_ of papillomata in children requires no anesthetic, general or local; the growths are devoid of sensibility. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• The close of the year 1894 witnessed an aroused interest, an assertative humane principle which must tend to the extirpation of that crime. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
• Their prayers and sermons excited the people against the impious Barbarians; and the patriarch is accused of declaring, that the faithful might obtain the redemption of all their sins by the extirpation of the schismatics. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• And these censures exercised, not in a lordly, domineering, prelatical way: but in an humble, sober, grave, yet authoritative way, necessary both for preservation of soundness of doctrine, and incorruptness of conversation; and for extirpation of the contrary. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
• The anatomical position of the parotid, H, Plate 3, and submaxillary glands, W, Plate 4, is so important, that their extirpation, while in a state of disease, will almost unavoidably concern other principal structures. Surgical Anatomy
• _ If it be yet objected, that the members of parliament have, at one time or other, sworn to preserve the laws; and therefore to swear to endeavour the extirpation of prelacy, which is established by law, is to contradict their own oath and run the hazard of perjury: it is easy for any one to observe and answer. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
• This extirpation is made worse by the fact that the boodie was once of the most widespread of Australia's kangaroos, its burrows (now abandoned by the original owners) still visible deep in the heart of Australia. Biological diversity in Southwest Australia
• In the last 70 years, extirpations have continued even in natural areas protected in parks.