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- noun Plural form of
demolisher .
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Examples
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The Royal Festival Hall was the only construction left standing after a newly elected Conservative government sent in the demolishers in the autumn of 1951, to rub out one of Labour's most popular achievements and leave it as waste ground for the next 10 years.
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011
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The Royal Festival Hall was the only construction left standing after a newly elected Conservative government sent in the demolishers in the autumn of 1951, to rub out one of Labour's most popular achievements and leave it as waste ground for the next 10 years.
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011
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The point of this ordinance it seems was to make things harder for builders/demolishers, so the fact that they're complaining doesn't seem surprising.
Builders Rep Raps City for Vacancy Ordinance « PubliCola 2010
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The demolishers were accompanied by heavily armed members of the South African police and members of the
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Efforts to move them were put off for a fourth time on Monday when the squatters stoned demolishers and asked for another postponement.
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Through extravasation, that is, through fluid infiltration of tissues, these Passengers come to be one with us, and we make them part of our tissue; but some of the Passengers are the demolishers of the living temple.
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This is the iniquity of this dull age: I remember the time when it went on the mad side; all your top wits were scowrers, [393] rakes, roarers, and demolishers of windows.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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I was considering that the demolishers of this place -- those English armies, those followers of John Knox -- were actuated by the highest and most laudable of motives.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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As for Castel Bolognese itself, Cesare Borgia sent a thousand demolishers in the following July to raze it to the ground.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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As for Castel Bolognese itself, Cesare Borgia sent a thousand demolishers in the following July to raze it to the ground.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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