wholesale destruction

collocation in English

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wholesale
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˈhəʊl.seɪl/us
/ˈhoʊl.seɪl/
of or for the selling of goods in large amounts at low prices to shops and businesses, rather than the selling of goods in shops ...
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destruction
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/dɪˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the act of destroying something, or the fact of ...
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(Definition ofwholesaleanddestructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Second, it led in practical and immediate terms to thewholesaledestructionof cultural goods and to the social regression of entire peoples, ostensibly on behalf of higher values.
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They affect an area of only a few kilometres rather than threaten thewholesaledestructionof a nation.
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Have the effects of thewholesaledestructionof some of our most beautiful birds been carefully estimated?
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Why will there bewholesaledestructionof the 1933 machinery?
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Those policies were totally inadequate to prevent thewholesaledestructionand redevelopment of our historic cities, towns and villages.
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Indeed, in some cases, the dispersal or even thewholesaledestructionof opposing civilian populations seems to have become the objective of many conflicts.
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That implies not awholesaledestructionof sovereignty, but a process of co-ordination.
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Instead ofwholesaledestruction, we now have wholesale rehabilitation.
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A war for the promotion of justice and order has no guarantee that justice and order, and not justwholesaledestruction, will emerge.
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Foremost among those problems is the shambles surrounding thewholesaledestructionof the arrangements for community use of school sports facilities.
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In the past 20 years commercial pressures have mounted to such an extent thatwholesaledestructionis now in prospect.
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Some reports in the media claimed that the rule will result inwholesaledestructionof hedgerows and other environmentally valuable field margins throughout the country.
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Wholesaledestructionwas not large, but most of the estates have suffered in varying degrees through felling of trees for food production or for fuel.
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First, there was the task in which central government played an essential role of halting thewholesaledestructionthat was going on.
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The conduct that led towholesaledestructionthere and elsewhere is simply unacceptable.
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They agreed that any scheme involving thewholesaledestructionof houses would be unacceptable.
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I have been to a certain place which has suffered from this on many occasions, and thewholesaledestructionto market garden glass was appalling.
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We should do all we can to see that this kind ofwholesaledestructiondoes not take place.
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There was not the least hurry to bring out thiswholesaledestructionof these historic units at this juncture.
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There is also euthanasia, which has already been mentioned, but we think that we can avoidwholesaledestruction.
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