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
City Attorney Ann Davison’s office responded with court filings of its own this week, accusing some of the plaintiffs of spoliation themselves by deleting their own texts about CHOP.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
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
And as museums and governments also reckon with demands to repatriate artifacts removed from former colonies, the legal precedents concerning Nazi spoliation have global significance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
In the present case, on the contrary, it was the loss of the father which had given opportunity for the spoliation of a child.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine