Especially, one supposes, to those who systematically blasted it to the point of extinction even after it was declared an endangered and protected species in 1973.

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But the nature of war appears to be changing, as interstate conflict has become rare to the point of extinction, leaving violent clashes in which civilians are particularly vulnerable.

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The mathematical sciences were neglected almost to the point of extinction within the mediaeval educational system, the schools teaching almost no mathematics and the universities only paying lip service to a narrow curriculum of mathematical topics at the very lowest level.

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Any breeder across the country would be arrested and charged with neglect or cruelty for things that these organizations do every single day, yet the very laws that restrict breeders to the point of extinction of some breeds are written with exemptions for anyoen falling under a non profit banner.

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The findings provide a reference point for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction rates, the researchers say.

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Privately-funded efforts to save this regal bird from extinction had been underway for some time at that point, and the federal government began its own efforts in 1966 with the passage of the Endangered Species Preservation Act, the precursor to the more comprehensive Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.

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As I wander through, reading the young sailors' stories -- many were teenagers who couldn't even swim -- and looking at the harpoons and killing irons, a mother awkwardly tries to explain to her young daughter (they are the only other visitors) exactly what the point was, and why the leviathans were driven to near extinction before whaling played itself out in the Pacific by the 1870s.

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