(n.) The act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Human depredation was not continuous as Desmodus located other hosts.
(2) There’s no question that wolves have eaten them from time to time — there were two confirmed kills here in 2014 — and though cattle depredation is decreasing, there’s no question that it will happen again in the future.
(3) This is the first report to document the use of famphur as an intentional means of killing wildlife thought to be depredating crops.
(4) Though The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association had been party to the discussions, they were furious about the outcome, saying that the new definition of chronic depredation was impossible to meet.
(5) The film shows the depredations of time, but also the lability of the past, its different meaning and value for both parties, and how, now that the couple are talking, the past can seem as unstable as the future.
(6) He could temporarily push out of his mind the horrors of the depredations of the planet being carried out by big business, or the dumbing-down of people's minds through the mass media, and he could relish the cultivation of what he himself termed "obsolete and obsolescent" varieties of apple, such as Royal Russett and Orleans Reinette.
(7) When the Arab spring uprising in Libya took shape in February, Britain and France , who had suffered more than most western countries from his depredations, saw a chance to settle with him.
(8) As elsewhere in the world, rodents are responsible for very considerable economic losses in tropical Africa because of their depredations on both growing crops and stored food products.
(9) Nigerian president meets schoolgirl who escaped Boko Haram Read more The disastrous economic and social legacy of Boko Haram’s depredations, and a linked, ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad basin, has brought calls for Buhari to adopt a more constructive approach extending beyond crude military suppression tactics.
(10) I am 77 and entitled to a free TV licence, but I am happy to keep paying for it if it will save the BBC from the depredations of this government.
(11) Several cattle had been taken by the pack, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), which administers the state’s wolf plan, authorised the removal of two wolves for “chronic depredation”.
(12) It was not clear from the report whether Gove was explaining the horrific rise of neo-Nazism as primarily a response to the depredations of the EU.
(13) I don't doubt that Thurley has an aversion to patronising his paying guests – but really, patronising is precisely what the heritage industry is all about: preserving our ancient monuments against our own thoughtless depredations; organising a charitable and corporate funding structure for them because we cannot be trusted to pay for them out of the public purse; educating us as to their possible meaning; and, most of all, providing a seamless complex of car parks and road trains so we can visit them without having to animate our own overweight bodies.
(14) Much of what is happening now reflects the impact of decades of self-serving western policy in the Middle East and Africa, whether it be the fallout from the Iraq and Libya interventions, the depredations of climate change or the imposition on postcolonial developing countries of trade, aid and investment rules favouring richer nations and multinational corporations.
(15) The scale of current violence in Kurdish areas dwarfs Isis’s Turkish depredations.
(16) The state distributes compensation to ranchers for confirmed depredations.
(17) The National Campaign for the Arts heart sinks at the need to make yet more utilitarian arguments – but those are the only ones likely to stave off worse depredations.
(18) It has been rumoured for weeks that the Emiratis have been discreetly backing General Khalifa Haftar , the renegade Libyan general who presents himself as the only man who can save his chaotic country from the depredations of Islamists he dismisses as terrorists.
(19) No fiction set in the 14th century, for instance, has ever rivalled the portrayal in Game of Thrones of what, for a hapless peasantry, the ambitions of rival kings were liable to mean in practice: the depredations of écorcheurs ; rape and torture; the long, slow agonies of famine.
(20) Food chains are an essential link, for they associate animals to plants (in the case of depredators such as herbivores, fruit- and grain-eaters) and to other animals (in the case of predators).
Predatory
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Example Sentences:
(1) When estrus was terminated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), predatory behavior did not further regress as it did in control runs.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(4) The introduction of Zonitoides nitidus -- predatory snail -- without vegetation modification produces a progressive elimination of Lymnaea in 3 years.
(5) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
(6) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(7) It is concluded that predatory behavior is based on specific mechanisms separate from both alimentary and instrumental ones.
(8) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(9) Once the story of a predatory homosexual was presented in court, Carr became a victim and the murder was framed as an honour killing.
(10) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(11) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
(12) Google's provision of its Android operating system for free is anti-competitive "predatory pricing", according to a complaint filed with European regulators by Fairsearch Europe, a group whose members include bitter rival Microsoft .
(13) The third experiment revealed that LiCl injections did not influence either maternal aggression or locust killing in naive females and predatory aggression in experienced-killer females.
(14) However, predatory attack on insect larvae was unaltered by any dose of the compound.
(15) He is hostile to the centralised state as well as predatory capitalism, concerned about rising levels of mental illness and worried about the widening income gap.
(16) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(17) They do so by accommodating predatory tax practices, in response to opportunities provided by countries like the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
(18) These findings clearly indicate that amphetamine reactivity is influenced by prior exposure to a predator, the presence of predatory odors during testing, and the subject's sex.
(19) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(20) The attorney general claimed the bank knew the trader engaged in predatory behaviour.