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Other controversial schemes proposed by his government were a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including Glebe and Newtown and an equally ambitious scheme of ' slum clearance ' that would have brought about the wholescale destruction of the historic areas of Woolloomooloo and The Rocks.

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He argues that would be relatively easy to have created the Synoptic chronology by selecting and editing from John's chronology ; whereas expanding the Synoptic chronology to produce that found in John, would have required a wholescale rewriting of the sources.
Bernstein pointed out simple facts that he took to be evidence that Marx's predictions were not being borne out: he noted that the centralisation of capitalist industry, while significant, was not becoming wholescale and that the ownership of capital was becoming more, and not less, diffuse.

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Thwaites therefore became responsible for the wholescale construction of a sewerage system, as well as street works and other infrastructure.

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* Cekada, Patrick Henry Omlor and Rama Coomaraswamy criticize what they consider the wholescale removal of prayers and revisions to the consecration of the Eucharist.
With the wholescale deaths and massive emigration of the period, farm sizes had begun to increase, as surviving holdings were merged with neighbouring vacated ones.
It created a network of main thoroughfares by wholescale demolition or widening of old streets or the creation of entirely new ones.
On top of changes in available ingredients, the 1980s also witnessed a wholescale liberalisation in attitude towards the formerly ' foreign muck ' cooking styles and segmentation of lifestyles according to income and socio-economic status.
By the 1960s the buildings in the area had decayed considerably and the Belfast Corporation introduced a major development plan which involved wholescale demolition of much of the area and its replacement with a series of flat complexes.
In 1806, as part of his wholescale re-ordering of the map of Europe, Napoleon I of France upgraded the independent German duchy of Bavaria to full kingdom status.

clearance and woodland
More extensive woodland clearance took place to make way for fields and pastures.
Red Kites were extinct in Ireland by the middle nineteenth century, due to persecution, poisoning and woodland clearance.
The main effect of humans on this species is indirect, through woodland clearance which affects the habitat, predation by cats, and collisions with windows, buildings and cars.
It forages for insects in high trees in dense forest, and this always rare species has been adversely affected by woodland clearance.
Examination of peat cores and pollen records indicates that soil erosion ( suggesting clearance of woodland for agricultural purposes ) was taking place in 3470 BC and that evidence of arable cultivation by Neolithic communities exists from 2460 BC.
Surviving documents record the widespread enclosure of wasteland and clearance of woodland in King's Norton, Yardley, Perry Barr and Erdington during the 13th century, a period over which the cultivated area of the manor of Bordesley also increased twofold.
These heaths were originally created or expanded by centuries of human clearance of the natural forest and woodland vegetation, by grazing and burning.
Further woodland clearances took place at this stage, and also in the Bronze Age, to make way for agriculture and animal husbandry, although where the soils were poor and made permanent cultivation difficult, clearance led instead to the creation of heathland.
Ergo: the tree's decline in western Europe is chiefly owing to woodland clearance in river valleys, not disease.
Between January 1996 and April 1996 the clearance of approximately of land, including of woodland and the felling of nearly 10, 000 mature trees including oak, ash, & beech, to make way for the building of the road, led to some of the largest anti-road protests in European history, with around 7, 000 people having directly demonstrated on the site of the bypass route in some way and over 800 arrests being made.
It is possible that the Romans ( who were most likely present in nearby Luton ) were the first to start the clearance of woodland in the valley.
Shawstead Farm ( and probably others in the area ) were associated with the clearance of local woodland in order to help supply Chatham Dockward with oak for the building of wooden sailing ships.
It is often a relict of former woodland vegetation, surviving in open grassland and grassy heaths after woodland clearance despite being a shade lover.
The range of the plant is changing little in Scotland, but it has declined in northern England due to woodland clearance and moor burning.
* Deforestation, the deliberate clearance of woodland or forest for human development

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The administration had discovered through its own investigations that one of the leading scientists on the AEC, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed ; Eisenhower removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance, though he knew this would create fertile ground for the extremist McCarthy.
It was because Ellsberg held an extremely high-level security clearance and desired to create a further synthesis from this research effort that he was one of very few individuals who had access to the complete set of documents.
A lack of clearance between rotating fan blades and nearby support struts and grilles will create an audible noise, similar to how a mechanical siren operates.
This parkland which does suffer litter, trampling of wildlife and other damage associated with tourism including the clearance of parkland to create ski resorts.
There are slight changes to the shape for generating purposes, such as extending the hob's tooth length to create a clearance in the gear's roots.
In some cases this clearance went so far that parts of the heathland have given way to open spots of pure sand and sand dunes, with a very local desert climate that, even in Europe, can create local temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius in summer, drying the sand spot bordering the heathland and further raising its vulnerability for wildfires.
Although prehistoric and later peoples were responsible for extensive tree felling and land clearance this did not create the peat moors above Cragg Vale.
* the grade, 200 foot clearance at peak, and the 90-degree angle turn is to create clearance for an empty oil-fired aircraft carrier to pass beneath it-it is not sufficient for Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers
Today, this is typically accomplished by introducing shims into the space between the cam follower ( tappet ) and cam to create the necessary clearance, or by hydraulic adjusters.

clearance and agricultural
The clearance of the indigenous forest for the distillation of spirits, tanning and agricultural development began to lead to shortage of wood by the 1680s.
These moves would enable the clearance of forests and agricultural lands for greedy, corrupt means.
Tropical rain forests have been subjected to heavy logging and agricultural clearance throughout the 20th century, and the area covered by rainforests around the world is rapidly shrinking.
Ground clearance began in February and March 2001, with the intention of constructing the lower end of the navigation first, but the outbreak of Foot-and-mouth disease in May 2001 resulted in all of the surrounding agricultural land being closed for access, and there was no option but to start at the top.

clearance and land
Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use.
The clearance of large tracts of land for crop growth has led to a significant reduction in the amount available of forestation and wetlands, resulting in the loss of habitat for many plant and animal species as well as increased erosion.
The crossing required the dismantling of both the inner and outer walls and the clearance of the death zone or no man's land between the two.
As the extinction of these two species came at a similar time to human habitation of Australia, hunting by humans and land clearance have been mooted as possible causes.
There were many cases of tribespeople being killed by settlers, but perhaps more significantly, the forest on which they depend was being destroyed by logging and land clearance for farming.
They are also threatened by sewage, coastal settlement, land clearance and much more.
This specific ridge land habitat is particularly significant for Sydney as most similar habitat was left unprotected and was subsequently destroyed to make way for cheap development which has made many species only found ridges threatened with extinction due to extreme habitat clearance / fragmentation.
Around 80 hectares of wood and scrub were identified for clearance, all of which has now been removed and has opened up land to be reclaimed by the fen habitat.
For example, almost any land habitat offers a nice home for a small bird that specialises in finding small insects: the form best fitted to that task is one with long legs for agility and obstacle clearance, moderately-sized wings optimised for quick, short flight, and a large, upright tail for rapid changes of direction.
For instance, subsidies may be given for particular farming methods, forestation, land clearance, or pollution abatement.
In particular, heavy land clearance on the Jandía peninsula is isolating the local subpopulation and making it vulnerable to adverse effects of small population size.
The studios were built on of slum clearance land on Kirkstall Road, purchased from the former Leeds Corporation.
On April 13, 2011, a Cheyenne Lifeguard medical flight was forced to land at Reno – Tahoe International Airport without clearance, after the single overnight air traffic controller fell asleep in the tower.
Underwater obstacle clearance, repairs and EOD on land.
These operations took the form of Nimbus Star ( mine and ordnance clearance ), Nimbus Moon ( land and sub-surface naval ordnance clearance ), and Nimrod Spar, in which a private salvage contractor would clear the canal of the ten sunken ships under the supervision of the Sixth Fleet's Task Force 65.
Although the route, next to the railway and over the former Clifton colliery site, was chosen to minimize the clearance of occupied land, Yatefield, Olive Mount and Whittlefield Mills, the Barracks, and several hundred more terrace houses had to be demolished.
Since 2000 HALO has provided the only large-scale mine clearance capacity in Nagorno Karabakh and over the last 10 years HALO has cleared over 236 square kilometres of contaminated land and returned it to previously impacted communities.
This is generally due to habitat destruction and pollution, mainly by land clearance and herbicide and pesticide overuse of agriculture, and sometimes overgrazing.
After the release of a further 15 birds breeding began to occur-the first time it is thought to have happened since land clearance 150 years ago.
Predators include the dingo and the red fox, however habitat destruction, particularly through land clearance, is currently the largest threat to the species.
Despite popular protest, the Supreme Court gave clearance for the height to be increased to, but in the same judgment Justice Mr. Bharucha gave directions to Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra ( the Grievance Redressal Authorities of Gujarat ) that before further construction begins, they should certify ( after inspection ) that all those displaced by the raise in height of 5 metres have already been satisfactorily rehabilitated, and also that suitable vacant land for rehabilitating them is already in the possession of the respective States.
Both arboreal and non-arboreal pollen can be gathered and used in archaeological studies to support documentary and archaeological evidence of changes in land use — initial settlement, resettlement of area by other groups, and decline and abandonment of area — for example non-arboreal pollen can indicate the replacement of vegetation native to a region within the United States by vegetation native to places in Europe, or to the clearance of large areas that would be expected to make way for cities and towns.
SUV's are built with higher ground clearance for off-road use and thus have a higher center of gravity, Illegal use of off-road vehicles has been identified as a serious land management problem ranked with dumping garbage and other forms of vandalism.

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