Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators. |
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They decimated the population by introducing diseases such as whooping cough, measles, and smallpox. |
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The titles were decimated due to the wild weather conditions with many events cancelled. |
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There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. |
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Over the past thirty years, these unique forests have been decimated by the balsam woolly adelgid, an aphid-like insect introduced from Europe. |
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Once one enemy squad is thoroughly decimated, the computer will automatically sound a retreat. |
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They were there for five weeks, then relieved by the Army when they just were decimated. |
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Whole villages were put to the sword, livestock was slaughtered, crops destroyed and famine and disease decimated the survivors. |
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At the same time some of the native species that were decimated by the Nile Perch, or were even thought extinct, were coming back. |
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A lot of the bird species here, particularly the migratory waders, have been decimated. |
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His family was decimated by tuberculosis, casting a shadow over the rest of his life and career. |
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The situation in Java was much like a repeat of the Philippines, and the Allied aerial units were once again decimated by an aggressive enemy. |
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Millions have had their homes destroyed, their lives uprooted, and their futures decimated. |
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With tingling anticipation the audience nodded its agreement that the card the girl had drawn on had indeed been decimated. |
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In the early 1890s, a series of brutal winters decimated the cattle industry. |
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The section between Valhelhas and Verdelhos has sadly been decimated by a recent forest fire. |
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Family farms, campos, and swaths of countryside are being seized and decimated. |
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If it wasn't for a few well-placed headshots by several other Marines the group would have certainly been decimated. |
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Agriculture is mainly pastoral, but recent droughts have decimated cattle herds. |
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At some of these ornithologically important sites, it will take the decimated bird population some 10 to 12 years to recover, he said. |
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Whole categories that once seemed so promising, like sporting goods superstores, have been decimated. |
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The ravages of the civil war decimated the revolutionary elements of the working class that so inspiringly ousted the czar. |
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Not just cod but other groundfish, including flounder, halibut and haddock, were decimated. |
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Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion. |
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In the 1950s an introduced poxvirus decimated the European rabbit, the lynx's main prey. |
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The Danthonia was decimated by the corellas this year. The mothers just pulled up all the new growth by the 1,000's when plowing the paddocks. |
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Populations of these invertebrates have been decimated or even eradicated in areas where wasps are common. |
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The plague decimated the working population of Europe, and this left large tracts of land vacant. |
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Scotland's fishing fleet has been decimated and the rest of us were as powerless as the Scottish Minister for Fishing. |
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Native clam populations in the Great Lakes have been decimated, and other species that compete for food with the mussels are in sharp decline. |
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Extensive wetlands in Sonora have been decimated by irrigated agriculture and urbanization. |
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Those groups are the remnants of populations that were decimated by whalers and other seafarers who killed the creatures for food. |
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A University of Sydney researcher is claiming up to a third of our snake species could be decimated. |
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The fear of the virus has decimated the tourist trade to South East Asia, with Singapore bearing the brunt of the cancellations. |
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Both agriculture and the province's small manufacturing industries were decimated during the civil war. |
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By most indications, Aidid's supporters were decimated and demoralized the day after the Battle of Mogadishu. |
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Interestingly, Rick had not decimated his vile detractors and signified that he was a saint. |
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Poor countries cannot develop, cannot increase their income when so much of their labor force is decimated. |
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The Jacobites stood the fire for some time before charging, being decimated by grape and musket shot. |
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And snares have decimated the local population of Ader's duiker, Africa's most endangered antelope. |
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Since I have financial obligations which would be decimated by any exposure, why should I put my anonymity at risk now or in the near future? |
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Over-fishing results in decimated fish populations, whilst dolphins and whales become trapped in drift nets. |
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Over the course of centuries, Sorbian population was often decimated, and Sorbs came to be discriminated against in many ways. |
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That so-called war to end wars decimated an entire generation in Britain, as it did from France to the Ottoman Empire. |
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A huge Scots army was decimated, thousands killed, enslaved, or exiled. |
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This is very good news, because bee lice have decimated wild bee populations around here, and this swarm may be a sign of recovery of the local population. |
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Why haven't they been plagued or decimated by the problems that have besieged other teams, including those with terrific coaching and front-office staffs? |
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The resulting signal is filtered and decimated and normalized to generate the arctangent of the in-phase and quadrature components of the baseband signal. |
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Prior to 1990 the species had been decimated by a combination of habitat loss and capture of birds for the pet trade, and was considered extinct in the wild. |
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Among the creatures expected to blossom as a result would be the tiny water vole, whose populations were decimated by the introduction of the mink from North America. |
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A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus. |
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This happens routinely after marriage, and women from decimated kin groups are taken as wives in this polygamous society, without brideprice having to be paid. |
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The long hours have decimated my reading, writing and studying regime, and I suspect that the inmates are probably placing bets as to how soon I will skedaddle. |
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I didn't see these self same people out on the pickets when the mining industry was decimated, neither were they there when the steel industry collapsed. |
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The species have decimated pine tree populations in India and are similar to the bark beetle that has ravaged forests in the western United States. |
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The personal wealth of some of Ireland's most high profile technology executives has been decimated by the continuing slump in technology share prices. |
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But because of the World Wide Web, there is too much content and not enough filter, and the value of talent has been decimated. |
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I was looking at my snowball bush yesterday and noticed it was decimated. |
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In reality, the effects of privatisation and subcontracting in community care has decimated the true potential of people that need support in the community. |
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Eventually, the Urartians were decimated when nomadic tribes came through the Caucasian passes in the north and wiped the Urartian cities off the map. |
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Donegal's once vibrant textile industry has been decimated in the past decade with the closure of companies like Jockey, Donegal Shirts and Fingal Manufacturing. |
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Traders claiming their businesses have been decimated by a controversial bus lane were due to hold an emergency public meeting with Transport for London last night. |
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Fields are still small, there are no huge modern sheds and the pastures are rich in species that would otherwise have been decimated by modern farming methods. |
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Trees are hard to kill, but their populations can be decimated by the same types of parasitic or bacterial plagues that can destroy human populations. |
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Petunia flowers are fragile though and all the heavy rain had rather decimated an enormous hanging basket full of them that hangs on the side of the car port. |
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Thousands of bee swarms in the central Eastern Cape have been decimated by a deadly blood-sucking Asian mite which destroys the male drone bees and damages female worker bees. |
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More recently, large concentrations of orange roughy were uncovered on seamounts off Australia and New Zealand, and just as immediately decimated. |
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The idea grew out of an effort to save highly endangered Micronesian kingfishers in Guam, where many bird species had been decimated by a brown snake invasion. |
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The earth has been decimated by climate change, stranding what remains of humanity on a train. |
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The great mass of Russians, all too aware of the Soviet ecocide that decimated their land, have a passionate sense of the need to protect their environment. |
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What Young sees in Sites Unseen, Shimon Attie's European installations between 1991 and 1996, is a deliberate attempt to repeople a decimated landscape. |
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As a means of repeopling the island, which was being decimated by fever, a large number of Royalists in Ireland were seized and sent out as slaves by the English. |
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The native population was decimated or assimilated within decades of the arrival of Columbus, and the island was repopulated with Spanish colonists and their African slaves. |
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Of course, if a walker happened to stumble on the nest of one of the few remaining pairs of a species which has been decimated by farming practices, damage could result. |
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The International Coffee Organization provided funds to Angola for the revival of its coffee production after a long civil war decimated production. |
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The pride and lifeblood of the city was decimated in a single day. |
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Freeport is just one fishing town of many that have been decimated in the aftermath of Sandy. |
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It is the wars of choice that have decimated entire countries, destroying infrastructure and sending them back to the Stone Age. |
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By the 1980s, golden tansy ragwort flea beetles, cinnabar moths and seed head flies had largely decimated the weed's Western Oregon population. |
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Chytrid fungus has decimated frog populations worldwide, and caused extinctions and widespread declines in Australian frogs. |
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Provincial militias were outlawed and decimated by the new army throughout the presidential terms of Mitre, Sarmiento, Avellaneda and Roca. |
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While at the PUC, Conlon played a big role in creating the electricity deregulation plan that decimated California's power system. |
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Hunters have decimated the populations of tigers, leopards, and other large cats for their valuable pelts. |
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As the native population was decimated by epidemics and forced labor, black slaves were imported. |
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The introduction of European diseases decimated the local population, resulting in the Spanish bringing African slaves to work plantations. |
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Chile, by default of its geography, was unaffected by phylloxera, a louse which decimated much of Europe's vines in the 19th century. |
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The city, also known as Wipers during WW1, was decimated after numerous battles to capture the city during the Great War. |
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The rain has decimated any of the lettuce left in the garden, and I had no idea the leaves of my tall favas were edible. |
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Sawmill operators favor reestablishing red oaks on areas decimated by borer outbreaks. |
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African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated by European conquest. |
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In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction. |
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It has a vernier adapted to the decimated, or the duodecimated division of the unit of length. |
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In the Battle of Agincourt, the Armagnac faction fought the English and were decimated. |
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Ecgfrith's force decimated the local population and destroyed many churches, actions which are treated with scorn by Bede. |
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Mother Nature is a harsh mistress, but there's nothing natural about the way common ravens have decimated the struggling desert tortoise. |
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A rout ensued that decimated the main body of the English army and killed or captured most of its commanders. |
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The species was decimated in 20th century Finland, despite regular dispersals from Russia. |
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The big parties have been literally decimated, like the unluckier Roman legions who were reduced to one tenth of their original strength. |
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Now, for the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the fossil record, thanks to a mass extinction that decimated ocean life 360 million years ago. |
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Nevertheless, the border here became more and more porous since the decimated defending troops could no longer drive off the Irish settlers in the coastal regions. |
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It is likely that all the fighting men of Sussex were at the battle, as the county's thegns were decimated and any that survived had their lands confiscated. |
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Overfishing has decimated the mackerel and herring stocks all around our islands, and now because they are hard to find we are now destroying the sand eel population. |
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Establishing crops in vulnerable conditions may result in early seedbeds being decimated, according to Northumberland farmer and contractor Chris Anderson. |
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The population of Sweden and most of Europe was seriously decimated. |
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Meanwhile, 7th Armoured was being held up by the Ariete Armoured Division which in the course of the day was decimated while giving stout resistance. |
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European diseases decimated the native population of the province, prompting the importation of African slaves during the colonial period, starting in the 16th century. |
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Um, some sort of power overload. I'm afraid it decimated your breakfast. |
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Sometimes the criminals were decimated by lot, as appears in Polybius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Appian, Dio, Julius Capitolinus, who also mentions a centesimation. |
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Cities were also decimated by the Black Death, but the role of urban areas as centres of learning, commerce and government ensured continued growth. |
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Over centuries, they had decimated their highlands, so in the 50s and 60s, they migrated to the lowland rainforest and did the same through slash-and-burn agriculture. |
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There is no record of any native Amerindian population in the British Virgin Islands during this period, although the native population on nearby Saint Croix was decimated. |
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Frustrated with not finding gold or silver in the areas suspected to contain such valuable materials, they destroyed villages and decimated native populations. |
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