The present revival of interest in them is like a new-discovered sense, and is undoing the spoliation and neglect of an age subsequent to the Reformation, and for which the Scottish Reformers are not to blame.
It is highly significant that his very first public act, almost never mentioned by his biographers, was his spoliation of the Prince-Bishop of Liege (an historical precedent tragically suggestive at the present day).
The Hohenzollerns have ever waged war mainly for spoliation and booty.
They did espouse the Lutheran and Calvinistic faith, but their conversion enabled them to appropriate the vast dominions of the Church, a spoliation which might have presented some difficulties if they had remained Catholic.
The murder of our countrymen, and the spoliation of public and private property, was perpetrated with impunity within a mile of our cantonment, and under the very walls of the Bala Hissar.
Repeated recommendations have been submitted for the amendment and change of the laws relating to our public lands so that their spoliation and diversion to other uses than as homes for honest settlers might be prevented.
Since the establishment in 1909 of government trading posts, this spoliation has practically ceased in the Agúsan Valley.
I never dreamt of the speech making a sensation, but it has; and as there was nothing remarkable in it, it is a proof that people were looking for an assurance from somebody that a policy of spoliation was not meditated.
It was, however, certainly held, at the time, by many who argued that Gladstone's character was itself a direct contradiction to the charge of his proposed measure being one of spoliation and robbery.
Where does the right of spoliation begin, and where does it end?
To fortify the weak against the invasion of the strong, to suppress spoliation and fraud, the necessity was felt of establishing between possessors permanent lines of division, insuperable obstacles.
There is, we conceive, no reason to suspect that the Rohilla war, the revolution of Benares, or the spoliation of the Princesses of Oude, added a rupee to his fortune.
If there is question of Pharisaic scandal alone, one should not renounce the goods of which one is the custodian, but should resist spoliation as far as one is able.
Similarly, when one follows the counsel of Christ not to resist spoliation (Matt.
Manuel promised satisfaction for the spoliation of the Venetians in 1177 by the payment of a large indemnity, and the long struggle with the Hungarians for the recovery of Zara and the Dalmatian protectorate was intermitted.
Egypt would be safe from attack, and the Venetians had an old score to settle with the Greeks, for a large part of the indemnity promised by the Emperor Manuel for the wanton spoliation of the Venetians in 1171 was still unpaid.
It was impossible for Adrian not to look with the liveliest displeasure at such wholesale spoliation on the part of his imperial son; whose victims formally submitted to their fate out of sheer terror and impotence of resistance.
It was as bold an attempt at spoliation as the commencement of the suit itself.
Capital fancied its interest was to be promoted by grinding down labour; labour, that its rights extended to the spoliation of capital.
Robbery assumed the guise of philanthropy; spoliation was attempted, under colour of law; plunder was systematically set about, by means of legislative enactments.
Henry was left out, for which, indeed, he cared little, knowing that the process of spoliation would inevitably result in quarrels among the leaguers.
The system of ecclesiastical spoliation was also in 1546 rounded off, by the formal transfer to the crown of chantries which had not been swept away in the dissolution of the monasteries.
Talleyrand repeated his question and Livingston replied that twenty millions of francs would be a fair price, if France would pay the spoliationclaims of American citizens since the Treaty of 1800.
Both his methods and his implements were bad, and resulted in that land spoliation which has been the bane of American industry.
But the proof of this spoliation is made most apparent by taking into account a single fact, and drawing the natural inference from it.
And what were the consequences of this scheme of spoliation and wrong, which English politicians would never have thought of but for their traditional contempt of the rights of property in land in Ireland?
At last Strafford marked out the whole province of Connaught, for what has been called 'his majestic rapine;' this and other innumerable acts of spoliation and wrong unquestionably were the paramount cause of the great Celtic rising of 1641.
These were not the only questions arising from this wholesale spoliation which afforded an ample harvest to the legal profession.
How utterly discredited the Church had become, and how loss of respect for the spirituality had led to spoliation of the temporality is shown by the condition of the episcopate of the capital, Toulouse.
Most of his barons were either heretics or favorably inclined to a faith which, by denying the pretensions of the Church, justified itsspoliation or, at least, liberated them from its domination.
The schemes of spoliationthat defy the officers of the law are, for the most part, inaugurated and directed by legal minds.
We alluded to the French Revolution for the purpose of illustrating the effects which general spoliation produces on society, not for the purpose of showing that general spoliation will take place under a democracy.
The general proposition, however, having been admitted, Mr Mill proceeds to reason as if men had no desires but those which can be gratified only by spoliation and oppression.
It is scarcely necessary to discuss the effects which a general spoliation of the rich would produce.
France had encouraged thespoliation of the Papal States by the forces of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel, and in 1870 it was forced to abandon Rome to the Italian Unionists.
In Brittany many scenes of open conflict took place as the troubled peasantry strove to prevent the suddenspoliation of those institutions which they held dearest on earth.
At that time there arrived from South America a personage who was to play a serious part in the final spoliation of the Holy See.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoliation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
