Mass demolitions In recent years, authorities in Nigeria have embarked on mass demolitions of prime waterfront slums citing safety and security concerns.
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Land bank officials, including the director of demolitions, have resigned.
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It was the biggest wave of demolitions in three years.
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The excavator was withdrawn, the demolitions left at a standstill.
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The tractor represents the forced evictions, demolitions, and stadium construction.
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Police watch over demolitions in the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais.
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We don't see a single checkpoint, settlement, settlers, or home demolitions.
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"If they come — I don't know," she said of the demolitions.
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For graphic on oil tanker demolitions by type, year click reut.
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Church demolitions in Khartoum, for instance, are carried out by local authorities.
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Israeli officals did not respond to requests for comment on the demolitions.
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Demolitions often are a city's strongest tool, especially when housing code enforcement fails.
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But the biggest problem is the void to which his skilful demolitions lead.
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She's proud of how residents fought back and ended the demolitions, she said.
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Israel places severe restrictions on Palestinian development there and home demolitions are not unusual.
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The residents of Kashi -- the old town -- say the demolitions have destroyed their culture.
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Israeli authorities say such demolitions carry out court rulings against unauthorized building by Palestinians.
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He sees no reason at this point to oppose the demolitions, or to move.
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Free Tibet, a group based in London, said the demolitions began at 8 a.m.
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Some people might think limiting demolitions is an imposition; we think it's common sense.
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Even some state-run news outlets have chimed in to criticize the rushed demolitions.
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Demolitions began in the 1990s, and intensified in the run-up to Expo 2010.
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There could be some potential demolitions of buildings on the site, but funding will continue.
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But as as demolitions continue, residents say the program is hardly in the rearview mirror.
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Demolitions of buildings that are beyond repair could begin as soon as Tuesday, he said.
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About 100 of the structure were lost over time to decay, demolitions, and natural disasters.
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Residents and civil society activists see the demolitions in the Mohamed Ali neighborhood as discrimination.
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Mater also showcases a large collection of colorful window frames which he salvaged from demolitions.
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That means there are likely to be many more such demolitions in the coming years.
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The United Nations experts have asked Beijing to address the reports of evictions and demolitions.
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Ninety percent of all sabotage is based on some sort of demolitions, or booby traps.
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When these women do blow up, seeding tabloid stories about themselves, they are controlled demolitions.
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Protesters on both sides of the issue have turned up to demonstrate at the demolitions.
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Hundreds of Christians have also been detained or arrested attempting to resist those demolitions, ChinaAid said.
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Ominously, two local journalists reporting on controversial home demolitions near the capital were arrested last month.
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Police stand in hailstones to watch over demolitions in the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France.
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COGAT says all the demolished structures were illegal and that the demolitions were carried out lawfully.
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However, they become deadly when damaged during renovations and demolitions, or as they age over time.
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Some aid workers who witnessed the evictions said uniformed government soldiers were involved in the demolitions.
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Due to the evictions and constant demolitions, much of the neighborhood looks like a war zone.
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When Shaw's demolitions of received ideas provoked outrage and obloquy, he courageously defended his intellectual independence.
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City authorities deny they are targeting small businesses and have vowed to continue with the demolitions.
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Israel places severe restrictions on Palestinian development in Area C, and home demolitions there are not unusual.
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The city has seen over 6,000 demolitions in the past decade and has thousands of vacant lots.
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"I really thought to myself that they would be looking at 603 to 85% demolitions," Kelly said.
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JEI said officers had gone ahead with demolitions despite a court order to wait for a hearing.
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Yet the logic of the demolitions was often opaque: buildings belonging to bigwigs were allegedly left standing.
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In late 2010 and early 2000, even as these legal challenges moved through the courts, demolitions began.
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In the statement, the family blamed fighting within the community for the violence connected to the demolitions.
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It was like watching one of those TV demolitions — it just seemed to come down right on itself.
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Rather, it is black and evil forces that "whip up unrest" during demolitions that are to be crushed.
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They began looking at a 2008 state guideline that granted some leeway for isolated demolitions of abandoned buildings.
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The demolitions have pockmarked the district with "useless" squares — Mr. Mathon's word — but its social fabric is intact.
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The three-month course covered a lot of ground: mine detection, booby trap disarming, tunnel searching and demolitions.
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The Israeli military makes decisions on land use, freedom of movement of Palestinians, home demolitions, and many other areas.
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"Demolitions and other short term legislation are not the issue," said Constant Cap, an urban planner based in Nairobi.
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In Borderlands 2, Tiny Tina is a child demolitions expert whose family was sold to a megacorporation for experimentation.
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Mr. Toheed and others are scrambling to keep up with the bulldozers as they threaten new demolitions each week.
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Over 1,300 Palestinians, including over 600 children, have been displaced by demolitions in 2016 alone – more than any previous year.
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The institute houses about 10,000 people; official orders say no more than 5,000 should be living there after the demolitions.
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Elliot Sperling, a Tibet scholar who taught at Indiana University, shared the Tibetans' view of the motives behind the demolitions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that in response to the attacks, slated demolitions would be sped up.
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Now, even as Israeli soldiers prepare for the demolitions, contractors on the unfinished buildings continue to install cabinetry and appliances.
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The army has not commented on the demolitions, but a military source said the forces were executing a legal regulation.
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Despite widescale looting and several high-profile demolitions, much of the city's Roman-era structures appear to still be intact.
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That it is easy to find convincing demolitions of climate-change myths, for example, has not curbed misinformation on the topic.
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There have been 23 new homes built over the past decade, 14 resulting from demolitions and subdivisions, according to city records.
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On Sundays, attend the hotel's Film Club, a public event that includes dinner, cocktails and movies like Demolitions, Everybody Wants Some!!
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"In line with the EU's long-standing position, we expect the Israeli authorities to immediately halt the ongoing demolitions," it said.
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The French authorities have vowed to raze it by the end of the year, saying new demolitions will begin in October.
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As it came together in the spring of 2015, the plan in Pine Bluff was to move forward with 600 demolitions.
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But this time, officials agreed that a 600-house project could fit, if the demolitions were scattered strategically around the city.
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The government must enforce a national moratorium on forced evictions and demolitions, and ensure there are enough city shelters, Farha said.
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The country remains on high alert and numerous controlled demolitions have been carried out of suspicious packages and vehicles in recent days.
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Home demolitions for both these groups are still widespread in the region to make way in many cases for more illegal settlements.
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"The demolitions only happen in this zone, where the poor are," said Hechmi Mohamed Salah, a 59-year-old Mohamed Ali resident.
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Arson and demolitions had left a single five-story building on the south side of 183th Street, with a few squatters inside.
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The two abbots have not spoken out publicly against the demolitions, and have in fact told residents not to oppose the government.
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"It is unacceptable for the demolitions to begin while there are still children in the camp," a spokeswoman for Unicef U.K. said.
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The evictions have evoked unwelcome comparisons to collective punishments, including home demolitions, imposed by Israel against families of Palestinians accused of attacks.
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Mr. Abrahams and his team use satellite imagery to track everything from illegal mining and logging operations to large-scale home demolitions.
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City officials have worked from the highest-density districts, with 27% occupancy rates, downwards, reasoning that demolitions there stabilise prices for more people.
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The Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement accusing the Israeli court of trying to set a precedent for further demolitions along the barrier.
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On Wednesday, Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, and other U.N. officials called on the Israeli authorities to halt plans for demolitions.
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Even in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, where some leeway was granted for the thousands of necessary demolitions, strict worker-protection rules still applied.
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The U.N. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says it is among the highest rates of demolitions it has recorded since 2009.
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While some homeowners put on additions, Verona has not had the rash of house demolitions and rebuilding experienced in nearby Essex County towns.
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With every building cataloged, demolitions are easy to track and residents can use that information to support their demands for compensation, he noted.
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The video concludes with a sequence of demolitions of newly built apartment blocks, which were cleared to make way for further upscale development.
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The project, from the Bluestone Organization and other developers, began demolitions in January, but only after lawsuits had delayed the project for years.
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"We're moving as fast as possible," he said, noting that the demolitions could safely occur within 15 minutes of the preparations being completed.
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It ushered in a period of suicide bombings and shooting attacks by Palestinians, and Israeli air strikes, demolitions, no-go zones and curfews.
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And these demolitions are not limited to the Negev, either; another planned demolition is the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank.
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The demolitions will start in the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was fatally injured in police custody, prompting civil unrest that highlighted the urban decay.
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So far, 90 demolitions have been carried out in the area since 2013, with another 903 planned by February 2020, according to mayor Bayoudh.
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Through the early 1970s, the demolitions displaced some 1,800 poor and working-class families, most of them Puerto Rican, turning homes into vacant lots.
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The demolitions began even as rescuers continued digging through debris from the collapsed seven-story building, which fell during a period of heavy rain.
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Some "truthers" think the American government destroyed the Twin Towers with controlled demolitions, blaming al Qaeda to justify their invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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These demolitions have been concentrated in the Roman Circus, once a stadium for chariot races, now part of the poor neighborhood of Mohamed Ali.
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"The state carries out demolitions when buildings do not follow the approved building plan, or are built illegally or in unauthorized areas," she said.
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Lucky Chen (Chen Nianxi), a demolitions expert, risks his life daily underground while tending a paralyzed father and aging mother living in rural squalor.
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You're still the one laying C4 charges and blowing up trucks full of coke, even though you have a demolitions expert in the squad.
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There was then an international outcry over the proposed demolitions and an order from a judge barring the state from carrying out its plan.
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Amnesty International said the demolitions left 30,000 residents homeless, highlighting the difficulties faced by poor people living in slums as African cities expand rapidly.
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This has led to projects like Freedom Seders in Hebron, Sukkot against Demolitions, and the recitation of Kaddish, the Jewish mourners prayer, for Gaza's victims.
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Mr. Chyn finds that these demolitions had very large — and very positive — effects on the children who were forced to move out of the projects.
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The Israeli military restricts the movement of Palestinians, and makes decisions on issues like land use and home demolitions in more than half of the territory.
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The trouble, say Githongo and some of the businesses affected, is the haphazard nature of the demolitions, which they say come with little or no warning.
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Israeli officials say such demolitions could deter other Palestinians from launching attacks in a campaign that has killed 28 Israelis and a U.S. citizen since October.
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Though unarmed, they have developed an unsavory reputation as bullies, clashing violently with unlicensed street vendors and assisting in home demolitions and the killing of pets.
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But other pernicious aspects of the occupation — the demolitions of Palestinians' homes, the evictions of whole villages of Bedouins — have yet to make it on screen.
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The surprise inspections have been carried out by a team of 33 highly trained experts in areas such as renovations, high-rise construction, scaffolding and demolitions.
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In 903, demolitions were less than half of the expected 2016 level but it will not be a real relief for the struggling container shipping industry.
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command said the soldiers were injured during a "demolitions training incident" at the command's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command said the soldiers were injured during a "demolitions training incident" at the command's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.
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That would pave the way for public hearings, and if approved would make any demolitions or major alterations to the building subject to a significant review process.
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Provided he can solve this puzzle, Mr Duggan thinks that at the current pace of demolitions he can clear the city's long-standing blight within five years.
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In just the last two years, more than 10,503 demolitions have cleared the way for a series of neighborhood transformations aimed at redefining urban life in Detroit.
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Moscow made the decision to demolish 104 properties in December but had not set a date for the demolitions, according to the the RIA Novosti news agency.
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Decades of deliberate underfunding allowed buildings to fall into disrepair, providing a pretext for "managed decline" ahead of demolitions celebrated as "regeneration"—criticized as gentrification by many.
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These were marked by the demolitions, in particular, of areas that were skated most, effectively destroying the aspects of the city center that drew skateboarders to it.
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Back then, authorities said that demolitions were part of an ongoing reconstruction plan for the capital; now, the campaign is said to be about ending organized crime.
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For a while Mr. Blade worked at cross purposes: as a bridge-builder, eagerly striving to reconcile these differences, and as a one-man polyrhythmic demolitions team.
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When post-war zeal dictated that the infamous slum of the city was to be torpedoed in the late 225s and 230s, there were mass scale demolitions.
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As a lawyer, Wang Quanzhang gravitated toward controversy, taking on cases that involved religious worshipers accusing the government of persecution and activists protesting forced demolitions of houses.
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"It all started in a serious way after they built the school," Mr. Lecker said of Regavim's campaign to get the army to carry out the demolitions.
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Or that in Israel, as in the West Bank, Palestinian citizens face demolitions and forced evictions to make way for Jewish communities, military zones and national parks.
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The High Court issued its ruling on June 21 after a case against the demolitions was launched by the Lagos-based human rights group, Justice and Empowerment Initiative.
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The KRG has denied any systematic policy of destruction of Arab homes, but said peshmerga had carried out demolitions for security reasons such as clearing booby-trapped homes.
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Officials say demolitions have been prevented or delayed in the past by lengthy legal challenges by owners or intervention from local politicians siding with the pleas of residents.
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The demolitions were carried out after Israel's Supreme Court accepted that rationale, and the precedent this set effectively destroyed the equilibrium that had reigned in the West Bank.
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Weeks after the demolitions, Mr. Ahisu, a resident who witnessed the initial clashes, watched from afar as a crowd scavenged valuables from the wreckage of their former dwellings.
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Later that morning, more than a hundred Marines assembled in a final unit formation behind a large brick building immediately across the New River from a demolitions range.
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I survived "peacetime" deployments to disaster-ridden countries ravaged by humanitarian disasters, and the assorted near-misses that go along with hard training involving live ammunition and military demolitions.
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HRW says the demolitions of targeted homes were not directly related to military operations against ISIS and therefore count as unlawful destruction of civilian property under the Geneva Conventions.
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There have also been demolitions and evictions in slums in the cities of Indore and Bhopal in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, which were named as Smart Cities.
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That project, which was plagued by delays, political disputes and a fire in 2007 that killed two firefighters, became one of the country's most expensive and long-running demolitions.
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The problems of concentrated poverty and isolation, which the demolitions were supposed to solve, persisted — and relocated families now found themselves in strange territory without their former support networks.
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But the city government has also spent years trying to reduce Beijing's population of low-income migrants, using demolitions and sweeping inspections of residency documents to force them out.
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Estimates on the number of tanker demolitions vary between the four shipping analysts that Reuters spoke to, with the most conservative standing at a seven-year high in 2018.
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Even some critics of the demolitions accept there were often legal violations and backhanders when the buildings were erected, often many years ago in the 1990s or early 2000s.
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The once-bustling downtown is so scarred by closures, demolitions and fires that it looks, according to the city's mayor, 'like a bomb was dropped in the middle of it.
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The report, coauthored by other mediators from the region, will heavily criticize Israel for its construction, demolitions and property seizures in Palestinian territory in the West Bank, the AP said.
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The demolitions on private land were unannounced, they said, and pleas by the community - largely women and children - for time to collect their belongings and go safely were not granted.
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The highly anticipated search — involving 64 people, including engineers, geologists, chemists, archaeologists and a specialist in military demolitions — began on Friday and is expected to last at least 10 days.
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To protest the destruction, Palestinian citizens of Israel have launched a boycott of Hyundai given its complicity in home demolitions, the first such campaign for corporate responsibility launched within Israel.
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He was forced to reckon with the reality that these demolitions, settlements and acts of violent dispossession were not rogue moves, but fully supported and enabled by the Israeli military.
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HRW called on the United States and other members of an international coalition backing Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State to pressure the Kurdish authorities to end the demolitions.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Some 30,000 residents of the Nigerian megacity Lagos have become homeless because of state-ordered demolitions and fighting between rival communities, residents and a rights group said on Thursday.
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The first wave of demolitions in the 1980s was sometimes purely for aesthetic reasons, but councils now often claim the cost of refurbishing towers outweighs the initial outlay to build anew.
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In November, demolitions and what police said was fighting between rival communities forced more than 30,000 people from their bamboo homes in Otodo Gbame, a waterfront slum in Lagos' Lekki neighborhood.
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Regular studio demolitions began last summer with the destruction and partial eviction of Ai Weiwei's studio only a few miles away from Huantie in the studio and gallery district of Caochangdi.
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If your budget allows, consider buying steeply discounted appliances at stores that sell used kitchens, like BIG Reuse in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and Astoria, Queens, or Green Demolitions in Fairfield, N.J. 5.
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The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday condemned the demolitions, and said the fate of those evicted did not fit with the progress Somalia has made.
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That is a common justification given by the military when it wants to carry out demolitions and the forced removal of Palestinians from the land, diplomats and human rights groups say.
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In the 1970s, convinced that the future belonged to drivers as mid-20th-century suburbs boomed, officials carved two high-speed "arterials" through the retail district, which required large-scale demolitions.
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"I as the owner, have been in demolition over 35 years, and after many thousands of structure demolitions, this is the first incident wherein the wrong structure was demolished," Lindamood wrote.
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Instead of providing exemptions to Music Row's zoning — which ultimately encourages demolitions of small-scale, music-related buildings — the city should adopt incentives to support the music industry on Music Row.
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Israeli officials say such demolitions could deter other Palestinians from launching attacks in a wave of stabbings, shootings and car rammings that have killed 28 Israelis and a U.S. citizen since October.
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But residents worry about having to urge the city to take such precautions years after it embarked on a project that involved demolitions that at times took down whole blocks at once.
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Forced evictions and demolitions of homes to make way for big construction projects currently under way in Tashkent, for instance, have led to widespread condemnation—something Mr Karimov would have stamped out.
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"Divisive specifics" and "the fractures in Israeli and Palestinian society" are mentioned in the article, but absent is any mention of occupied territories, illegal settlements, home demolitions, evictions, or human rights violations.
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Mr Duggan, who is not a subject of the investigation, blames the mistakes on a desire to increase the pace of demolitions, but acknowledges that regulators were right to rap his knuckles.
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JEI said the ruling could mark a turning point in the battle over housing in the fast-growing city of 23 million people, obliging the state government to find alternatives to demolitions.
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Steve Ayorinde, the Lagos state commissioner for information told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday the government would appeal last week's court ruling that deemed demolitions of the waterfront Otodo Gbame settlements "unconstitutional".
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When the demolitions began, Mr Kenyatta promised that no illegal development would be spared, even if it was owned by members of his own family, whose property holdings are said to be vast.
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Clinton voter: Jim Petito, 55, a retired demolitions expert in New York First and foremost, it's way too early to pass any judgments with respect to how President Trump is handling any issue.
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Under a harsh regime of military checkpoints, arbitrary arrests, deportations, home demolitions and sheer intimidation, Ramallah was no longer the "bride of Palestine," as it had once been known, but a violated city.
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Denied employment, victimized by home demolitions and land theft, and subject to a host of discriminatory policies that violate fundamental human rights, the endurance of East Jerusalem's Palestinian Arab population is tested daily.
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BEN BRANTLEY And who would have thought, when he first started his explosive demolitions of hallowed classics at New York Theater Workshop in the late 1990s, that he would become a mainstream force.
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The New York-based rights watchdog said demolitions, which have taken place in recent years to carve out buffer zones along borders such as that with the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip, had increased significantly.
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"It's good that the demolitions have picked up again and it's a shame that it's taken so long," said veteran anti-corruption campaigner John Githongo, referring to unsuccessful past attempts to stop illicit construction.
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In North Sinai, the military commits egregious abuses including extrajudicial executions and unjustified home demolitions in its fight with the local franchise of the extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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The bridge crosses the Nile's Warraq Island, which has an estimated 100,000 residents, some of whom have protested against planned demolitions on the island and plans to develop it into a "modern residential community".
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Chinese officials did not deny that the demolitions had occurred, with at least one official notice pointing to a need to relocate the cemetery for city planning purposes, according to the cable news network.
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I have a friend who worked with demolitions in the Middle East, and he has told me on several occasions that an explosion for him was an experience very similar to a sexual orgasm.
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Once on the council, Williams-Preston offered a "100 Houses for 500 Families" program that emphasized repairs to existing homes and construction of affordable new homes on the empty lots left behind by the demolitions.
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In April the military ordered refugees to comply with those rules or face forcible demolitions, leading many to replace concrete walls with wood and plastic sheeting, though a large number of shelters were not altered.
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But human rights activist Michal Haramati, who had come to Umm al-Hiran to observe the demolitions, said she witnessed the event and that the driver was not heading towards police when he was shot.
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Despite the fatwas and continued demolitions, in November 2018, for the first time in years, big Mawlid celebrations took place in multiple cities, including Tripoli and Sirte, before it was taken over by the LNA.
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Beijing's goal in the agreement, however, appears to be the same as with the church demolitions: greater control over the rapid spread of Christianity, which gained a permanent presence in China in the 16th century.
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China says matters related to Tibet are internal affairs, but Chinese officials in Beijing have privately expressed some concern over outside perceptions of the demolitions and evictions at Larung Gar and related Western news coverage.
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Human Rights Watch said in its report that violations between September 2014 and May 2016 in 21 towns and villages within disputed areas of Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces had followed "a pattern of apparently unlawful demolitions".
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 300,000 people living on the edge of Lagos' lagoon may be spared eviction after a court ruled that planned demolitions of waterfront slums would be "inhuman and degrading", campaigners said.
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Snopes investigated Trump's 29 claim by speaking to officials from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and construction demolitions experts who were at Ground Zero in the hours and days after the 211/11 attacks.
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Hu Yan, a graphic artist in Beijing whose work often grapples with the loss of history and culture brought on by urbanization, said the demolitions were a tragedy that had inspired many artists to speak out.
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All over the country, corrupt bureaucrats were brought down for crimes from illegal urban demolitions to embezzling state funds that they could no longer sweep under the rug owing to the new army of whistle-blowers.
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It may be lost to the wrecking ball, like most of the old Peak houses since a trend of demolitions started in the late 1970s and early '80s, when the city's property market started to boom.
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Experts say more than three-quarters of new arrivals end up living in a bastee - owned by private landlords who provide some services - as squatter settlements on public land have disappeared amid demolitions and evictions by authorities.
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What made these demolitions extraordinary is that the homes in question were in territory where Israel does not claim to be the governing authority, and the homes in question had building permits issued by the Palestinian Authority.
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I was one of the people who did demolitions without a mask or a helmet, and I often entered contaminated areas that didn't smell right, only to be told that our boss would bring masks the next day.
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The group said the demolitions in the northern part of Rakhine State could have destroyed evidence of atrocities by troops who swept through villages after Rohingya insurgents attacked 30 police posts and an army base on Aug. 25.
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U.S. support for Israel should be conditional on Israeli compliance with international law regarding its occupation, an end to state-sponsored bigotry in regard to "right of return," and an end to all settlement building and home demolitions.
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The New York-based group said in a report that violations between September 2014 and May 2016 in 21 towns and villages within disputed areas of Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces had followed "a pattern of apparently unlawful demolitions".
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But the effort progressed fitfully until last year, when Mr. Xi's protégé, Cai Qi, apparently eager to make his mark as the new party chief in Beijing, seized on a deadly apartment building fire to push mass demolitions.
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That said, it should be realized that the political viability of this endeavor would be highly questionable in a context in which our national rights remain unrecognized and settlement activity, military raids, land confiscation and home demolitions continue.
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"There have been more evictions, demolitions and non-renewals of month-to-month rentals in that part of town than any other part of town because it's in between fancy Coconut Grove and fancy Coral Gables," he lamented.
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At the same time, the Israeli Parliament is scheduled to vote next week on legislation that would retroactively legalize scores of other settlement homes and outposts built on private Palestinian land and prevent any future evacuations and demolitions.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese military units demolished at least 20 refugee homes early on Monday, a group of international aid agencies said, warning that they feared more demolitions would follow and that thousands of people including children could be affected.
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The resort is being reduced to piles of rock and steel rods, the first in a wave of demolitions of illegal structures on the tourist island of Boracay on the orders of the Philippines' no-nonsense president, Rodrigo Duterte.
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But in a decision on May 24, a three-judge panel — two of them current or former settlers, the Bedouins' advocates noted — found that the Bedouins had been stalling, and that no reason existed to delay the demolitions further.
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But advocates of small business say the demolitions are the latest example of state hostility to private enterprise, a Soviet-era mentality they say has resurfaced under President Vladimir Putin and is worsening at a time of economic crisis.
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Some lowriders informally participated in protests against these proposed demolitions, but the city finally crossed the line when development plans aimed to destroy Lincoln Center—a Chicano cultural center where lowriders had been meeting for years to host car shows.
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The spate of demolitions comes just weeks after 193 nations agreed the New Urban Agenda at a U.N. summit in Ecuador, which aims to guide the growth of cities in the 21st century as well as enshrine humanitarian rights for the urban poor.
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"The reason on the surface for evictions and demolitions is that Lagos needs to be a beautiful city and that these people are illegal squatters," said a property developer who asked not to be named for fear of repercussions from the state government.
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The forced demolitions have also inspired an outpouring of protest art in the form of paintings, photographs, songs and poetry, an unusual show of dissent in a country that routinely censors messages running counter to President Xi Jinping's portrayal of an egalitarian society.
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The frozen faces of Communist leaders got a breath of fresh air in Mr. Liu's photography: A Beijing resident in 2008 lined the facade of her house with the portraits of lionized figures, in plucky defiance of demolitions planned before the Summer Olympics.
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Natacha Bouchart, center-right mayor of Calais, said that the demolitions would happen gradually — however since then tear gas has been fired by police and as shelters burned, Iranian men sewed their lips close and a woman reportedly slit her wrists in protest.
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He played a demolitions expert goaded into committing fraud in "Time for Revenge" (1981); a literature professor who tries to start a new life in "Common Ground" (2002); and a political idealist who organized rural shepherds in "A Place in the World" (1992).
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"Palestinian residents of Jerusalem endure systematic inequalities, including an inequitable distribution of the city's budget and municipal services, routine denial of building permits that are granted to Jewish residents, home demolitions, and legal confiscation of property for Jewish settlement," the petition argues.
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Statistics on demolitions are scarce, but the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Development Management Support Center, a French-Vietnamese research agency, found that at least 207 colonial-era villas in two of the city's 24 districts were demolished or significantly altered from 1994 to 2014.
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"I will call upon Israel to end policies that violate international humanitarian law, such as home demolitions and settlement construction in the occupied territories, and work to ensure that U.S. aid is not used to support these activities," Sanders said in a statement to VICE.
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Ms. Mann can be cryptic and impressionistic, as she is in "Good for Me," which begins "What a waste of a smoke machine/took the taste of the dopamine/and left me high and dry" and goes on to images of prison breaks and demolitions.
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Demolitions are expected to reach 450,000 twenty-foot equivalent units this year and based on an average size of 3,000 TEU for ships which are being scrapped, this means that about 150 mainly old and medium-sized container ships will be pulled out of the market.
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Subsequently, we held demonstrations for the division's leadership that included intense live-fire maneuvers, for which we used everything at our disposal: Bangalore torpedoes, Dragon anti-armor missiles, LAW rockets, 60mm mortars, claymore mines, C-4 improvised demolitions, all available small arms and, of course, lots and lots of hand grenades.
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But Allen's default format — quick, punchy, and a Why It Matters you can help influence — means that the newsletter can be the perfect vessel for getting out information that's maybe only one piece of the larger story, without the multi-paragraph demolitions you see in much of the press every day.
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For the purposes of this show, it evidently means one does not say that about 80,000 of the 92,000 Palestinian Bedouins were expelled in 1948 from the land they inhabited in what is now Israel, that their homes and livestock were destroyed, and that evictions and home demolitions continue today.
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"The rights of Palestinians in these zones are frankly being denied," he said, pointing out that on top of the suffering caused by the demolitions, families have had goods, including in some cases their cars, confiscated and seen aid that was meant to help them in the middle of winter destroyed.
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While the State Department delivers tired statements about American opposition to settlement construction, such building has continued — even during times of United States-led direct negotiations — so that between 2013 and 2014, there was a drastic increase in Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and in Palestinian home demolitions.
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They see hope in a middle class that is increasingly outspoken; grass-roots activists who are taking on issues as varied as pollution and forced demolitions of homes; and a generation of young advocates who have taken on causes like feminism and rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens.
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His notorious reputation, for some New Yorkers, is rooted in a "midnight demolition" in 1985, when his company pulled down several single-room-occupancy hotels in Times Square without getting a permit or turning off the gas, only hours before a citywide moratorium on demolitions would have gone into effect.
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Other high-profile cases involve demolitions not yet carried out, such as Umm al-Hiran, an unrecognized village where Bedouin had been settled by the state in the 1950s after being evicted from their homes; their current homes are now set for demolition, to be replaced by a town for Jewish residents only.
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To cut down on expenses, the couple also collected gently used appliances (an old dishwasher from a home they renovated for a client, a range from Green Demolitions), traded design services for materials like the walnut floor in the master bedroom, and called in as many favors from suppliers as they could.
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In those roles — as a former criminal bored in the law-abiding world, a 21957nd-century space traveler, a street preacher pretending to be blind, a devastatingly cruel country-music star and a crazed demolitions expert — his look and his down-home voice were the same, but his characters were distinct and memorable.
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In December 2015, at the Saban Forum, Kerry premiered a really detailed set of critiques of Israeli policies in the West Bank — home demolitions, expropriation of land, refusal of construction permits for Palestinians — a whole menu of things the Israelis were doing that showed they were actually consolidating and entrenching the occupation, rather than preparing to end it.
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In July, Green Demolitions, a store in Fairfield, N.J., that sells used luxury kitchens and other fixtures collected by the nonprofit donation program Renovation Angel, ran a "make an offer" sale on already discounted pre-owned luxury kitchens, including a traditional Russet kitchen from Rye, N.Y., with a fireclay farmhouse sink and Miele and Viking appliances, for $7,700.
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RAMALLAH WEST BANK Atarot Israeli settlements Israeli security barrier route Neev Ya'akov Almon Alon Pisgat Ze'ev Kfar Adumim French Hill Ramot Allon Ramat Shlomo 1949 ARMISTICE LINE Mishor Adumim Jerusalem Maale Adumim Old City ISRAEL EAST JERUSALEM Qedar East Talpiyot Israeli security barrier route Area of demolitions Givat Hamatos Gillo Har Homa Har Gillo Wadi al- Hummus 2 MILES BETHLEHEM RAMALLAH 2 MILES WEST BANK Israeli settlements Atarot Neev Ya'akov Pisgat Ze'ev French Hill Ramot Allon Ramat Shlomo Israeli security barrier route 1949 ARMISTICE LINE Jerusalem Old City ISRAEL EAST JERUSALEM East Talpiyot Area of demolitions Givat Hamatos Gillo Har Homa Har Gillo Wadi al- Hummus BETHLEHEM By The New York Times It was the first time in a quarter century that Israel had demolished Palestinian homes that had valid Palestinian building permits, stood in Palestinian territory, and had no connection to terrorism.
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