Timber in example sentence

Currently, the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, is being prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to embezzle from a state-owned timber firm, while Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after accusing several Russian officials of large-scale embezzlement, is being tried posthumously on conspiracy charges.

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They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear-cutting.

It's just steel and timber.

So in fact, the price of timber in the Beijing marketplace ought to have been three-times what it was had it reflected the true pain and the costs to the society within China.

We are made from crooked timber, vulnerable to illusions, self-centeredness and at times astounding stupidity.

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