Confiscation damages the rule of law on which modern industrial prosperity rests.

Much architecture has been turned into rubble.

In a heartbeat, the damage was done.

Instead of cohesion we have demolition of houses and bars.

(N.B. Crushed stone is a material used to fill holes on the roads in Bishkek).

The building was to be torn down so that a vestibule could be built in its place.

Similar to many other gentrifying cities, demolition and displacement are becoming more and more a common practice.

In January 2007, Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property by a court decision.

The townspeople have pointed out that this is the fourth home that has been demolished, and that the last one was removed in July.

Now Georgian president Saakahsvili has finished the demolition of a WWII memorial honoring his countrymen (and countrywomen) who gave their lives in fighting the Nazis.

In one case the only contact the woman sufferer could think of was pulling down a garden shed in the 1970s.

In a blog post on Vkontakte, Russia's most popular social network, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin justified the demolitions on the grounds of public safety

The other suspended the decree of expropriation. According to locals, however, a man thought to be named Luis Enrique García, carrying only the decree of expropriation in his hands, led the demolition works nonetheless.

ANNA WAS UPSTAIRS standing in front of a mirror pinning, with Annushka's help, a last bow to her dress, when she heard the wheels of a carriage grating on the gravel at the entrance.

The governor of the Imereti region, Mikheil Chogovadze, was dismissed as a result, and several other arrests, including the technical director of the company responsible for demolishing the monument, were also made.

Since the new plant and the adjacent facilities will be constructed near the current dump and require more space, up to 100 informally built houses in the immediate proximity to it will need to be demolished.

The destruction of the mosque was seen as the most serious rupture between Hindus and Muslims since India became independent in 1947.

Americans appreciate this as well as anyone hence the carefully stage manged toppling of Saddam Hussein in Firdos square in Baghdad in 2003.

On 13 November this year, the forcible demolition of a private building, ordered by the Chengdu local government, led to the suicide of one of its owners, Tang Fuzhen, who poured gasoline and set fire on herself.

As Balkan Insight reported, the demolition took place while Macedonia celebrated the country's biggest national holiday, Ilinden, when the city is half deserted as many residents traditionally go on vacation.

Vietnamese deaths and casualties outnumbered American deaths and casualties by perhaps 20 to one, but the US still could not subdue the nationalist adversary that they faced. The US could bomb Vietnam s cities to rubble, as it can Iraq s cities, but this solves nothing, claims vast numbers of innocent lives, and confirms the view of Americans as occupiers.

The US could bomb Vietnam s cities to rubble, as it can Iraq s cities, but this solves nothing, claims vast numbers of innocent lives, and confirms the view of Americans as occupiers.

As part of plans to decentralize government, a Soviet era statue to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who died during World War II was set to be demolished in Georgia's second largest city of Kutaisi to make room for the construction of a new parliament building in the hope of spurring regional economic development.

Dolly looked with timid inquiry at his energetic face, which was now wholly and now partly in the sunlight that fell between the lime trees, and then was again darkened by their shadow. She waited for what more he would say but he walked by her side in silence, prodding the gravel with his stick as he went.