Demolition in example sentence

In vandalism reminiscent of the Taliban’s demolition of the monumental Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan in 2001, Islamists ransacked the Maldives’ main museum in Male, the capital, on the day Nasheed was ousted, smashing priceless Buddhist and Hindu statues made of coral and limestone, virtually erasing all evidence of the Maldives’ Buddhist past before its people converted to Islam in the twelfth century.

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And the goal at first was just saving it from demolition, but then we also wanted to figure out what we could do with it.

Now this picture shows the demolition of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's studio in Shanghai earlier this year.

For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.

So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.

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