spoliation
Example Sentences
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Tate director Maria Balshaw said it was "a profound privilege to help reunite this work with its rightful heirs" and that she was "delighted to see the spoliation process working successfully to make this happen".
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Bryant’s attorneys are seeking what are known as spoliation sanctions against county, arguing that because the Sheriff’s Department and the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
It also said it viewed it as the responsibility of the German government, not private collectors, to compensate the victims of Nazi spoliation for art bought legally and in good faith.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
But, Powell wrote, the law on intentional or unintentional evidence spoliation, or destruction, is clear, and "requires the assumption that the evidence is favorable to the defense."
From Fox News ● Nov. 4, 2019
A fair number of inventories of convent property made for this or for other purposes is extant; notably those drawn up, for purposes of spoliation instead of preservation, at the Dissolution.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
