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Sentence Examples They only talk about it as an attempt at exploitation, domination and plunder. Occasionally it was good custom to plunder the palace of the freshly deceased Pontifex Maximus. Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies. Three weeks of rapine, slaughter and plunder were sufficient to anger the king and the emperor, who entered into negotiations with each other. The speaker worked his way through plunder, ravishment and seditious behavior. At that time, the modern nation-state began to regularize taxation and renounce the use of surprise plunder and confiscation as fiscal devices. With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy. It is essentially a cover to force countries to open up their markets for multinational corporations to plunder. In the north and west where towns and markets were few, plunder and tribute remained central to the circulation of wealth. They began to fashion their dwellings after those of the Skraelings and not plunder the earth. If they are not oil rich sheikhs who plunder their country, they are poor uneducated townsfolk who desperately want to be liberated. He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs. By the time the scattered troops were mustered, the enemy was already returning home and had to be ambushed in passing while laden with plunder. The spoils of plunder were divided between temples, with the victor keeping his share. Often, cavalry came out to harass enemy armies as they scattered to plunder, slowing down progress even further. Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules. On occasions woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds, which may explain the anxiety of a pair of stonechats nearby. Throughout the history of nations, inflation has been a time-honored and subtle method for governments to plunder its citizenry. These treasure hunters were coarse and greedy types whose only intention was plunder. To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery. Show More Sentences There is a predatory and illegal war of colonialist plunder being waged by this administration. Nero did not want anyone to know that he had been born in the village they were about to rape, pillage, and plunder their grimy guts out. The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war. Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo. It was a convenient base for piners and others wanting to plunder the area's considerable resources. Believing there was no army in the field to oppose him, he grew careless and let large foraging parties plunder the region. If they are going to plunder us, they should at least be denied the luxury of believing that it is for our own good. Lead by Sir Ensor, the clan has been ejected from their Scottish homelands and forced to plunder the villages on the moor to survive. British firms were able to plunder raw materials and labour, make profitable investments and sell their products. Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy. After a time of plunder and raids, the Vikings began to settle in England and trade, eventually ruling the Danelaw from the late 9th century. He is being tried for the nonbailable charge of economic plunder as well as perjury, illegal use of an alias and graft. The former president will also be tried in a multi-million dollar case of plunder, a crime punishable by life imprisonment or death. He is now being investigated for a string of criminal complaints including plunder. Yet still the internet and telephone bookmaking pirates get away with plunder from their very lucrative business. He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread. He is facing a string of charges ranging from perjury to economic plunder, a crime that carries the death penalty or life in prison. He is now facing investigation in at least six criminal cases including plunder. There were just crowds in a frenzy of arson and plunder, stripping buildings and torching a market. It is no secret that almost every department has become synonymous to outright corruption and plunder of public exchequer. Show More Sentences As we said elsewhere, this readiness to accept and embrace corruption and plunder of the public purse goes deep. He is being investigated in connection with a series of criminal charges ranging from bribery to economic plunder. The church is not built on layer upon layer of cultural and intellectual plunder. We suggested to set the houses on fire to get them out but he was afraid to lose plunder. The thieves marched almost in step, pleased with their plunder, unhurried, as if in a pageant. The plunder included its people, young men and women, sold into slavery to develop new nations of the West. Babur may have been descended from brutal conquerors, but he was not a barbarian bent on loot and plunder. Then everyone started to plunder the town and to search the houses, forcing open the doors with axes and iron bars. The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts. A cashpoint plot to steal customers' bank details and plunder their accounts was foiled by an eagle-eyed customer. Levis hid behind the conventions and decorum of poetry to disarm his readers and plunder their hearts. Forest officials who foil attempts to plunder and destruct the forest reserves should be honoured with promotions, increments and recognition. I'd offer to send you my copy gratis but there are still some relevant sections that I have yet to plunder and research. Her gown, once a dusty shade of pink, had been dirtied by the dust of the plunder and turned a faded brown. Thus, one may question the legitimacy of subsequent wars of conquest, military campaigns to subjugate and plunder peoples, and battles to gain territory. To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder. They became to be viewed as a set of robbers and deprecators, banded together solely for the purpose of plunder, and acting without authority of law or order. This starring show allowed him full rein to plunder his comic armoury. The six-day exhibition traces the ugly shades of terrorism unleashed in the Valley and the resulting plunder, loot, arson and rape that has accompanied it all these years. Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians. Show More Sentences It would be even more disturbing should it emerge that the approach is an opportunistic one, seeking merely to plunder industry without regard to the wider implications. It was up to the countries in which these acts of plunder had taken place to decide who rightfully owned the recovered works. It's always going to be the case in Scotland that players are looking to move on, or other clubs are looking to come in and plunder your better players. The difference between pirates and privateers was that the pirates were simply sea robbers who captured or looted ships at sea for plunder, without authority. When asked specifically about his songwriting inspiration, Partridge admits that as time goes by, it gets tougher to come up with new material to plunder. The plunder consisted of golden coins, jewels, bolts of cloth, and other valuables that would be found aboard a merchant ship returning home from a successful trading venture. On occasion woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds. Both stand accused of plunder, an offense punishable by death. He is being investigated for allegations including perjury and plunder. Alaric then crossed the Gulf of Corinth and marched with the plunder of Greece northward to Epirus. While both were fully engaged, the Burgundians seized the opportunity to plunder and devastated Liguria. The fight between France and Spain in Europe caused the first plunder of the city in less than five hundred years after the previous sack. The Rus' stayed there for several months, killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder. On August 24, 410, however, Alaric's troops entered Rome through the Salarian Gate, to plunder its riches in the sack of Rome. The Venetians claimed much of the plunder, including the famous four bronze horses that were brought back to adorn St Mark's Basilica. Mehmed II had promised to his soldiers three days to plunder the city, to which they were entitled. At this point Vergara and Campos took Ojeda prisoner and abandoned the settlement with the small amount of plunder that had been captured. They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm. Manila Times Manila Alleged pork barrel scheme mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles has hired a new lawyer to take charge of her plunder case. The emperor gave them lavish gifts in gold which enticed them to plunder vast amounts. Show More Sentences Given the low wages and high inflation in the later Empire, the soldiers felt that they had a right to acquire plunder. The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder. The plunder of Aurangzeb's treasure ship had serious consequences for the English East India Company. The majority of plunder was in the form of cargo and ship's equipment with medicines the most highly prized. Jewels were common plunder but not popular as they were hard to sell, and pirates, unlike the public of today, had little concept of their value. As such, the value of pirate plunder could vary considerably depending on who recorded it and where. Ordinary seamen received a part of the plunder at the captain's discretion but usually a single share. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. After 1587, the sole object of their successors became plunder, on land and sea. Under these agreements were allocations of authority, distribution of plunder and rations, as well as discipline enforcement. When certain vessels are lost in an unknown area, a potential salvor might discover and plunder the wreck without knowledge of the wreck's owner. A large amount of plunder was taken from the city after the Battle of Manila. Moctezuma gave lavish gifts of gold to the Spaniards which, rather than placating them, excited their ambitions for plunder. Maya warfare was not so much aimed at destruction of the enemy as the seizure of captives and plunder. For years, the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan routinely made raids on Russian principalities for slaves and to plunder towns. As a result of this conquest, considerable Byzantine plunder was brought back to Venice. He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land. The settlement did not go smoothly, and when Roman officials mishandled the situation, the Goths began to raid and plunder. This established beyond doubt that the government continued to appoint handpicked corrupt people to plunder the public institutions susceptibly. The Spanish received a large influx of gold from the colonies in the New World as plunder when they were conquered, much of which Charles used to prosecute his wars in Europe. Show More Sentences In 1527, Charles' army in northern Italy, underpaid and desiring to plunder the city of Rome, mutinied, advanced southward toward Rome, and sacked the city. We are prosecuting plunder and our Allies are practicing it. In the 8th century the Vikings appeared, although their usual style was to appear quickly, plunder, and disappear, preferably attacking undefended locations. By 801, a strong central authority appears to have been established in Jutland, and the Danes were beginning to look beyond their own territory for land, trade and plunder. Once in Rhuddlan Henry II received word that his naval expedition had failed, as instead of meeting Henry II at Degannwy or Rhuddlan, it had gone to plunder Anglesey. To this wage, a legionary on active campaign would hope to add the booty of war, from the bodies of their enemies and as plunder from enemy settlements. Aside from plunder, Estrada has also been charged with illegal use of an alias, perjury and graft and corruption, which are all bailable offenses. The second voyage was therefore a failure as he had not discovered any new areas and he had not received much of a share of the plunder obtained by Vergara and Camps. The devastation of Port Royal by an earthquake in 1692 further reduced the Caribbean's attractions by destroying the pirates' chief market for fenced plunder. If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride. Further, English ships began a policy of piracy against Spanish trade and threatened to plunder the great Spanish treasure ships coming from the new world. Rupert's cavalry successfully charged through the parliamentary ranks, but instead of swiftly returning to the field, rode off to plunder the parliamentary baggage train. In India these endless mosques and rhetorical mausolea, these great palaces speak only of a personal plunder and a country with an infinite capacity for being plundered. The Huns returned to their lands with a vast train full of plunder. Examples from Classical Literature Tarquin makes war on the Volsci, and, with the plunder taken from them, builds a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus. The Alani were in search of plunder, and strongly disposed to obtain it from Roman provinces. During their plunder they found a great quantity of provisions and ammunitions stored126 up for the use of the fleet. In their voyage they took a Portugueze barque, wherein they had rich plunder. No doubt the caiman had been attempting to plunder the new-laid eggs of the tortoise, and the latter had detected him in the act. The English and Enniskilleners entered Cavan, and at once began to plunder the place. Col. Bush asked if this man Blackman, who took out a commission in order to depredate and plunder, is still living? He will then proceed to plunder and discrown the very kings that had assisted him in erecting his colossal power. Maloosray had brought a hundred of his brethren in that durra, and he had promised them the plunder. The farmers and dalesmen were always careful to plunder the eyries, but not without considerable risk to life and limb. The forager encumbered with the weight of his plunder finally dropped it and made his escape. Most stragglers were real sufferers, but many of them were ingenious liars, energetic foragers, plunder hunters and gormandizers. Revolutionary committees every where sequestrate in the gross, in order to plunder in detail. I'll give you some of the plunder, if you'll put up that shooting iron, and make no trouble. I must get back to the waggons, or my friend the horned lizard may be taking his pick of the plunder. She was willing to essay the rle of stateswoman with no other principle than revenge and no other policy than plunder. Rezon was slain, Damascus given over to plunder and ruin, and its inhabitants transported to Kir. Sulla's soldiers were impatient for the plunder of Asia, and he therefore contented himself with repealing the Sulpician laws. It is not supposable that Mrs. Eddy realized, at first, the size of her plunder. Like pillagers of harvest, Their fame is far abroad, As gray remorseless troopers That plunder and maraud. Show More Sentences If you plunder all capitalists and all middlemen, the workers will certainly not be better off. An officer cried directly that he had helped to plunder a house last night. De riders gits so bad dey come most any time and run de cullud folks off for no cause, jus' to be orn'ry and plunder de home. There's enough plunder in the town to tempt the lads, and there's the wench for you. The two parties in Patusan were not sure which one this partisan most desired to plunder. He has ridden with them probably, and has had the piper's share of the plunder and whatever else was going. They marched in good order, not turning to the right or left to plunder, and doing no reprehensive action. Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created plunder and sin. We had hauled our manly tacks aboard, and had no thoughts of plunder. Their design was to turn pirates and, plunder the Spaniards, which they could not do till they got more men. In any report of a wedding, it is proper to itemize the plunder. They have thrown off the Malay yoke, and plunder as far as Celebes. Cowper ran in and out among the plunder, like a pointer in a turnip field. Nevertheless, the Danes could not plunder England as easily as before. If I tell the truth, they will be seized as piratical plunder. Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder. They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder. I would rather have seen the bucentaur than all their 280 other plunder. The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck. When the detachment arrived, nothing was left for them but plunder. Show More Sentences Many joined Clark for mere adventure, for plunder and deviltry. Besides, he did something to destroy the anarchy that enabled him to plunder society with impunity. But land plunder rose among them, dooming death by slow decay. Whitney and Wollaston planned the plunder of homeward-bound Spanish ships. At night the purloiner marched to his plunder, and she revived. You want opportunity to plunder your fellow-men in your own small way, but you hypnotize yourselves into thinking you want freedom. And gushy takes an amiable view of this world of hypocrisy and plunder. Outside the barred door, where discomfited kine came to ask for their old stable, Shamlegh and the coolies gave itself up to plunder and riotous living. Now and then the people wondered why nothing was heard of the raider, or of the stolen knife or the other plunder, but nobody was able to throw any light on that matter. It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress. And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree. Is it some marauder who has made his way to my room to plunder me? Find more words! 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