According to the leadership's orders, bandits were to be exterminated and destroyed. |
|
Two warriors, armed to the teeth, stand alert, ready to defend the demolition team in case of a raid by bandits. |
|
They must reject the abhorrent demands of hostage takers and bandits and, if necessary, commit more funds and more troops. |
|
All around them the bandits waited on horseback, except for Calderon who sat on the gypsy wagon's seat whistling a calming melody to his horses. |
|
The worst corporate bandits are still likely to face a sheriff who's quick on the draw. |
|
It was indeed lucky that none of these bandits seemed to be very adept with a sword. |
|
This bandit was a lot bigger than the other bandits and he wielded his weapons with skill. |
|
But the government tags the group as a gang of bandits that specializes in kidnappings. |
|
Meanwhile, anarchy reigns in the countryside as bandits, vowing to help the poor, raid and slaughter government convoys. |
|
The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine. |
|
He discovers a terrible secret that drives him back home, but with samurai and bandits roaming all over the country, will his return be too late? |
|
In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers and bandits in the name of law and order. |
|
What is wrong introducing card games such as bridge or canastas into club cultures rather than addictive armless bandits? |
|
It looks like motorcycle bandits might attack if you are on a moped on the island. |
|
Apart from these more organized armies, armed gangs of bandits under their own leaders join the fighting. |
|
One of those bandits was to backstab me, and you stopped him so I could get rid of him. |
|
Like most merchant houses, Yin Yu Tang was built to discourage attacks by marauding bandits and soldiers. |
|
Most importantly of all for the car-jackers, gunmen, bandits and muggers of Iraq, it removes your sense of fear. |
|
First it could be bandits or highway robbers or second it could be another of your rabbit friends. |
|
I followed Ir-Xieng's evil-looking gaze towards the group of bandits and robbers, all whom were looking quite nervous. |
|
|
Despite what romantic notions your kind has invented we are criminals, bandits and outlaws. |
|
Jolo, about 600 miles south of Manila, is a refuge for armed gangs, bandits and pirates. |
|
It seems that the road to Yusuichin was a lawless area infested with bandits and very dangerous. |
|
For example, victims were more likely to be white or Latino and were more often accused of being horse thieves, bandits, or outlaws. |
|
The still extensive forests, swamps, and reed-edged lakes provided cover for gangs of bandits, robbers, and deserters. |
|
My tail gunner called out another two bandits coming in again in trail from the low six o'clock position. |
|
At that moment I saw the two Thunderbolts flying ahead of them and I reported bandits approaching. |
|
I ducked as more bandits stalked into view between the trees on my side of the river. |
|
And clearly, the EU path, in some form or another is the world of the future whatever the Beltway bandits think. |
|
The government mounted a new Operation in May 1988 to displace these bandits from the holy shrine. |
|
Messengers would travel by stagecoach armed with pistols and blunderbusses, ready to shoot to kill any bandits or highwaymen. |
|
The long chain of unfortunate events indicate that Taiwanese businesspeople can easily become targets of bandits in China. |
|
The 'withdrawal' into fortified positions also left the large unpatrolled countryside free to armed bandits who were there just to loot. |
|
The streets, which were unpaved and unappealing even in daylight, were taken over by bands of wandering bandits and cutthroats after dark. |
|
She would brave bandits, illness, unsanitary, uncomfortable accommodation and even sometimes lack of food in a singleminded pursuit of her goal. |
|
This famous game of war is played by parasites, panderers, bandits, assassins, peasants, sots, bankrupts, and such other dregs of mankind. |
|
Long a hide-out for bandits, rebels and visionaries, the caatinga also earns a reputation as a mystical badlands. |
|
The two bandits, their haggard features grim with battle-blood, edged toward the tall warrior. |
|
When a carload of masked bandits tried to stick up the Bank of Millington on March 8, 1929, bank employees switched on an alarm. |
|
If you have one-armed bandits in every bar and restaurant, you're going to lure more people into tempting their limits. |
|
|
Playing from their own homes, they are becoming addicted to poker, blackjack, one-armed bandits and betting on events such as the Oscars. |
|
It cost me more last week to replace my lost 9-iron than my wife spent on her annual communion with one-armed bandits. |
|
The bandits also stole three cellular phones and two cordless phones, before escaping in a waiting vehicle. |
|
The men, obviously bandits or outlaws of some sort, wore drab grey clothes and the horses they were astride seemed to be skinny and underfed. |
|
The bandits looked up to see a teenage boy hanging by his feet from the overhang. |
|
To accomplish these goals, the battalion dispatched patrols at irregular intervals, keeping bandits guessing as to when they would occur. |
|
The project heralds a permanent change in the way bail bandits will be treated, he said. |
|
In origin, the warlords were mostly former soldiers of the imperial and republican armies, bandits, or local officials. |
|
One old man, probably the leader of a village plundered by the bandits, stepped forward. |
|
Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors. |
|
The cell had a single wooden cot which the bandits hadn't bothered to put a mattress on, and the floor was covered in straw. |
|
Aid workers have been caught in crossfire between warring groups of militia or bandits. |
|
During the daytime it was under government control, but during the night the rebel bandits roamed freely through the countryside. |
|
It is disgusting to see government ministers all but genuflecting to known bandits and murderers, but that has been the norm for many years now. |
|
The factors that produced social bandits and other primitive rebels in the past are very much part of the present-day world. |
|
As it stands, bandits clearly hold the monopoly on firearms and evidently, supplies aren't limited. |
|
The leader decided that he would never lose power again and openly declared that he would accept support from anyone including bandits and evil rulers from other territories. |
|
They were extraordinary, skating without helmets or knee pads, invading empty swimming pools like backstreet bandits, brave and single-minded and uniquely talented. |
|
Coming back in the rider raised his sword and brought it down on the stiff wire, shearing it through to prevent the bandits from reeling it in to fire at him a second time. |
|
The drone of the poker machines, roulette wheels and craps tables is punctuated by the bleeps, trills and occasional rattling of coins from the one-armed bandits. |
|
|
At that time there was persistent lawlessness, there were bandits, pirates, non-existent communications, areas of dense population, others of none. |
|
By tomorrow, it will be impossible to enjoy a cruise or even a day of fishing without being boarded by a marauding bunch of hook-handed ocean bandits. |
|
On Saturday, thousands of enraged citizens attacked a gang of alleged bandits, accusing them of robbing a man who was in town from the US visiting relatives. |
|
She now realized why bandits would choose a place like this to hang out, for it quickly got dark inside the forest, under the thick blanket of leaves. |
|
I was recently inducted into the bandits, and they told me nothing. |
|
He had excelled in every single mission that had been assigned to him, from routing bandits to training whole divisions of new recruits to aid in the war. |
|
Recently, the role has been expanded, asking for NATO troops to sally forth and actively pursue badmashes, bandits and holdover terrorists elsewhere. |
|
While all gunfighters certainly were not bandits, and all bandits likewise were not gunfighters, there is no question that Jesse James belonged to both categories. |
|
It will largely be set in Sardinia where the teenage Bond runs into a group of Sardinian bandits and a mad Italian count who is trying to restore the Holy Roman Empire. |
|
To get here, some have had to undertake long journeys on rickety buses or hitchhike on roads made unsafe at night by bandits. |
|
Unable to comprehend her and worried by his mother's addiction to the one-armed bandits at the local casino, Paul loses Marie to Albert, her boss. |
|
The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while the stretch from Bam to Pakistan was dogged with marauding gangs of bandits. |
|
However, the bandits transmitted that there were no other bandits in the target area, and we were not painting any contacts over the target with our own radars. |
|
Though his fondness for casinos has abated, he makes an occasional pilgrimage back to the one-armed bandits, and he plays the stock market even after the dot-com crash. |
|
The cheapest one-armed bandits are just 25c, which sounds like good value until you're tempted to win bigger amounts by playing three coins at a time. |
|
Initial reports had said the kidnappers belonged to a gang of bandits seeking the release of their leaders and two other colleagues arrested recently. |
|
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints. |
|
And yet brazen bandits prove time and again they are willing to try to return anything. |
|
The enemy would probably be bloodthirsty bandits just waiting to kill him. |
|
It's got gold-plated ceramic tiles and a thousand one-armed bandits. |
|
|
We stood there, row after row of blank-faced benefactors, feeding coins in to what are now called fruit machines, but were once known more accurately as one-armed bandits. |
|
The bandits attack, a bloodbath ensues, and casualties are heavy. |
|
The people of the desert landscape are wayfarers and bandits. |
|
Haunted by accusations made against his father and searching for a buried fortune, he becomes the object of a manhunt organised by a posse of bandits. |
|
He was kidnapped in October by a gang of bandits called the Pentagon Gang. |
|
Unfortunately, the party was soon attacked by bandits, who used the cover of a sandstorm to ambush them. |
|
Under Constantius, bandits came to dominate areas such as Isauria well within the empire. |
|
The postal service was a somewhat dangerous occupation, as postmen were a target for bandits and enemies of Rome. |
|
Songs that celebrated social bandits like Robin Hood, from the 14th century onwards can be seen as a more subtle form of protest. |
|
Until the Late Middle Ages the forest was a notorious hiding place for bandits, highwaymen and outlaws. |
|
The emperor dispatched some of his most trusted officers to reveal or destroy secret societies, bandits, and loyalists to his other relatives. |
|
If the merchants were attacked by bandits, losses were made up from the imperial treasury. |
|
The prisoner of unknown bandits, hurried he knew not whence, a pretty pass for an adventurer. |
|
Caesar, by virtue of his military victories over the raiders and bandits in Hispania, had been awarded a triumph by the Senate. |
|
Cooper plays Jeff Dawson, a wildcatter hunting the black gold who must contend with bandits who threaten to blow up his wells. |
|
No doubt, the trip was more scenic from the buckboard of a Conestoga wagon when folks had to worry about Indians, bandits, and bad weather. |
|
You saw them drinking alone in pubs, pulling at a cigarette, staring at the one-armed bandits as they jerked down the lever. |
|
My favourite pastime was visiting Barry Island on my Lambretta scooter and playing the one-armed bandits. |
|
Landlords only want to cater for younger drinkers with jukeboxes, pool tables and one-armed bandits. |
|
Ghazi says Yemen's uprising is driven not by democratic aspirations but by bandits trying to incite chaos. |
|
|
The Gladiator star scored a narrow 4-3 victory in a vote to remove 60 of the one-armed bandits from the licenced premises of the South Sydney league club. |
|
I did object to the spread of one-armed bandits and the introduction of betting shops in shopping areas which made gambling more easily available. |
|
Vincent, 78, also known as Vince Landa, was a Cockney who moved to the North East to run a fruit machine empire after the Government made one-armed bandits legal. |
|
Kenneth Batty, by email A Prices for one-armed bandits vary between PS250 and PS2,000 or more and I think yours is worth at least a few hundred pounds. |
|
The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village. |
|
Britain's most lawless bandits, The Yardies, are out of control. |
|
The first concern of the founder of the current monastery was to clear the region of bandits and keep the pass safe for travellers, the role of rescuers developing naturally. |
|
Ibn Battuta was given charge of the embassy but en route to the coast at the start of the journey to China, he and his large retinue were attacked by a group of bandits. |
|
The Japanese hired Chinese bandits known variously as the Chunguses, Chunchuse or khunhuzy to engage in guerrilla warfare by attacking Russian supply columns. |
|
Burmese guerrillas and bandits killed stragglers east of the river. |
|
Jang Bogo had become incensed at the treatment of his fellow countrymen, who in the unstable milieu of late Tang often fell victim to coastal pirates or inland bandits. |
|
Apart from the losses in the Diocese of Africa, Hispania was slipping out of central control and into the hands of local rulers and Suevic bandits. |
|
The bandits knocked over another bank, making three this week. |
|
They'd be one-armed bandits after he was finished with them. |
|