(n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
Example Sentences:
(1) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
(2) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(3) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(4) People know each other and look out for each other.." When politicians and Heathrow officials started talking about a third runway years ago, there were rumours it could mean the demolition of Harmondsworth.
(5) In April last year, thousands of Christians in Wenzhou – a nearby city known as “China’s Jerusalem” – tried to save their mega-church from demolition by forming a human shield around the building.
(6) This part of Paris has come to life again since Bercy’s historic wine warehouses were saved from demolition and converted into boutiques, bars and restaurants – and the Cinémathèque is the cultural heart, with its permanent collection, film festivals and exhibitions.
(7) Rachel Corrie died trying to protect a Palestinian home from demolition [see footnote].
(8) There have been some terrible cases that have also done an image-demolition job on care homes, which the regulator has not handled well.
(9) From the first pages of the book, the essential project of the camps is laid bare: it is, in Levi's words, "the demolition of a man".
(10) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(11) Thereafter the granuloma undergoes gradual demolition being replaced and surrounded by fibroblasts and collagen deposition.
(12) Government-backed demolition crews forced hundreds of churches to remove prominently placed crosses, despite elaborate protests and sit-ins by congregants.
(13) Roger Kirkby: Best delay ever was the disco demolition at the White Sox game in between a double header, White Sox forfeited the second game 9 - 0 If a team ever did this, but with Bruce Springsteen albums, I would become their biggest fan.
(14) SJ Closs Edinburgh He is the Daffy Duck of politics – confident and self-satisfied, leading to calamity; then he pops up again, unabashed • As a fellow economist I fully endorse Larry Elliott’s demolition of Tory party assertions that all is well for the UK’s growing economy, and that Britain is paying its way ( The Tories’ ticking economic timebomb , 20 April).
(15) Lysosomes participate in the following processes during the course of embryonal organogenesis: 1. destruction of cells of transient embryonal organs; 2. destruction and demolition of whole cells during the course of normal embryonal development; covering with a membrane and lysis of inferior cellular organelles; 5. lysis with consecutive assimilation of cytoplasmic inclusion; lysis of secretory products.
(16) Residents of a West Bank settlement earmarked for demolitions by the Israeli supreme court clashed with police and soldiers attempting to evict them today.
(17) In 1949 it was estimated that around 2 million homes were unfit for human habitation, too expensive to repair and earmarked for demolition.
(18) In Hebron, meanwhile, it was reported that the Israeli military had blown up the houses of two Hamas members named by Israel as suspects in the abduction Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Eisheh – the first punitive house demolitions since Israel halted the practice in 2005.
(19) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
(20) Friday’s arson attack is thought to be an act of revenge for the Israeli security forces’ demolition of two buildings in the settlement of Beit El earlier this week, which were deemed illegal by the Israeli supreme court.
Nullification
Definition:
(n.) The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the court of appeal explained: "What is required is a real risk of a breach of the principles of a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 which is 'so fundamental as to amount to a nullification, or destruction of the very essence, of the right guaranteed by that article'."
(2) On the legal system… Jury nullification is a right that Americans have had since the 18th century.
(3) In the relatively near future, standardising the methodology of linkage and association studies, and even the application of other more complex methods of analysis should lead to the nullification or confirmation of the presence of such factors on the short arm of chromosome 11 and on the long arm of the X chromosome, and should lead to the systematic detection of their presence on the entire genome.
(4) Summarized are the significance of fasting in Islam, the rules and regulations of fasting, types of fasting, nullification of fasting, and food practices and habits of Muslims during the fasting month of Ramadan.
(5) The nullification by carbon and nitrogen substrates of F. solani and A. flavus inhibition caused by soil volatiles parallels that for soil fungistasis.
(6) Its nullification or disturbance by the section and re-anastomosis procedure could generate the antral ulcer and other histologic changes (increase of the "G" cells, hyperplasia of the parietal, ECL and "A like" cells) by one or various hypothetical ways: 1.
(7) Whether nullification of such changes has long-term effects in reducing the incidence of vascular disease in diabetics remains to be established.
(8) And in the event of the nullification of any one of the conditions or lack of their provision, it is not allowed for the imam to enter the ummah and the Muslims into dubious bonds that oppress the ummah and the fate of its development.
(9) Binding of C9 to EAC1-8 occurred in a few minutes even at 0 degrees C. Trypsinization of EAC1-9 prepared and held at low temperature resulted in nullification of the potential hemolysis of these cells.
(10) Nullification of glucose active transport was not achieved by any of the DNP essayed concentrations.
(11) An angry White House statement on Tuesday night said the judge’s ruling facilitated “the dangerous and unlawful nullification of federal law in an attempt to erase our borders”.