The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace. |
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Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result. |
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Of course, his method of limiting the depredations of crime upon society differed dramatically from ours. |
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Then the victims of our depredations worldwide need to believe and participate in the making of a better world for them and us. |
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Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters. |
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They make good the depredations of history to give us a Rome that appears both whole and eternally modern. |
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Quite simply, the depredations of the Danes aided Wessex by extinguishing all other royal lineages. |
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His last, wretched, years were marred by drunkenness and the depredations of the bailiffs, who carried off his household furniture. |
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This neatly capsulizes the administration's ongoing depredations in Colombia, all under the shady banner of the war on drugs. |
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He is also a long-standing and articulate defender of Israel's right to defend itself against the unceasing depredations of its neighbors. |
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Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors. |
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Into this special domain went winter coats and wool items to be protected against the depredations of moths, silver fish, and their ilk. |
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For years, the gardens have been suffering from the depredations of the little pests. |
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What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations? |
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Livestock can be insured against leopard depredations, so losses can be compensated. |
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Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer. |
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The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations. |
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel. |
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Will they cease their depredations against the environment when it is so irreversibly compromised that even their own children begin to sicken and die? |
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They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep. |
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The depredations suffered by Southern blacks at the hands of white authorities had been known, at an abstract level, for decades. |
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Is it the depredations of unfettered capitalism that make people the servants of the market rather than the other way around? |
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Only grassroots opposition stopped, or at least limited, their depredations. |
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Iran has also succumbed over the course of a cruel century, in large part because of the depredations of the Pahlavi dynasty. |
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In South India, roving bands of dacoits, carrying out their traditional depredations on the weak and unprotected, had been a part of the rural landscape for centuries. |
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In the nineteenth century there was a movement, of which Steiner was a principal exponent, to keep geometry pure and ward off the depredations of algebra. |
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The otter is supposed to have been in the district for some time, for depredations that are now being laid to his charge have been going on for some considerable period. |
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I looked at the debacle in wordless bad humor, and started dreaming of games immune from the depredations of the real world. |
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The tiny corpse, entombed in firm mud, escaped the depredations of bacteria to be preserved intact, effectively for eternity. |
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During the years 1884 to 1887 two Siamese military expeditions made an effort to put down these depredations and reassert Siamese suzerainty. |
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The revolution led by the Bolshevik party was bound up with, and inspired, a broader international working class struggle against the depredations of capitalism. |
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We did stories on complementary treatments, organic farming, rainforest depredations, polluted seas and sick building syndrome. |
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Even after the depredations of Saddam Hussein, many of those Ms Steavenson talked to still hankered after someone like him. |
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Tiaras, gold thread, precious stones and pearls were able to survive the depredations of predators. |
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect. |
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Finally, recently, the depredations on free expression and a free press have become impossible to ignore. |
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Despite the depredations and hate of the former regime, and the deep antagonisms it drove between peoples, you chose a different path. |
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The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies. |
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It deals with the depredations of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it. |
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Southern Louisiana is the site of many environmental depredations, but one of them will never be a feeling of locked-down sterility as an appurtenance of human habitation. |
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Arabs and Muslims have been told that victimology and dwelling on the depredations of empire are only ways of evading responsibility in the present. |
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Devon used to be the Mecca for pteridomaniacs, the fern collectors of the Victorian era, and, despite their depredations, the steep Devon banks still drip with polypody, asplenium, dryopteris and polystichum. |
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In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations. |
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These tax farmers called publicans were infamous for their depredations, great private wealth, and the right to tax local areas. |
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Under Portugal Macau escaped many of the depredations of the Cultural Revolution, and it remains one of the last repositories of traditional Chinese culture. |
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As late as ad 1504 it was almost uninhabited following depredations by corsairs, and the Venetians had to grant incentives to settlers from neighbouring islands and the mainland to repopulate it. |
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He did not succeed in saving Czechoslovakia from the depredations of ambitious politicians in Prague and Bratislava, who saw great possibilities for their own advancement in smaller and separate countries. |
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This vulnerability is one of the reasons why Mr Putin thinks Europe will not act decisively against him over the annexation of Crimea, or any further territorial depredations he may have in mind. |
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Such solidarity affirms the dignity of the human person who is suffering because of natural disasters and the depredations of war, famine and poverty. |
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It did demand, however, that they put a stop to killings, abductions, mass killings, extortions and all depredations and criminal acts against Colombians. |
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At the same time, the English colonists in Massachusetts, who were being subjected to the depredations of French privateers based at Port-Royal, decided to invade Acadia. |
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A weakness of the buffer zone concept is that it was originally designed to buffer the conservation area from the depredations of the community, and it still carries this connotation. |
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When its economic, political and social depredations are taken into account, illiteracy clearly becomes a everybody's problem, because the whole country's social progress and prosperity is at stake. |
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This is, I think, the great, redeeming quality of city life, what makes it worthwhile living here, despite all the thoughtless depredations of bikers and truckers, and radio blasters. |
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Having made their fortunes celebrating the liberties of juvenescence, these aged musicians are now confronted with the indignities and depredations of failing health and weakening bodies. |
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In the interim period after the fall of the Akkad Dynasty, the land of Mesopotamia suffered severe disruptions and depredations at the hands of the Gutian hordes who had descended from the surrounding mountains. |
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Essentially, this is about getting us to pay more attention to the natural world – an attentiveness which, in the face of human depredations and climate change, has taken on a particular moral urgency. |
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I support the efforts to secure recognition of the key role of sports federations and to protect them from the depredations of financial and media giants. |
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Ms Warren's message about the depredations of runaway inequality won't have any teeth unless she puts herself in a position to take a mortally wounding bite out of Ms Clinton's support. |
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And we're going to award the presidency to a woman who's enabled the depredations and exploitation of women by that cornpone husband of hers? |
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The film shows the depredations of time, but also the lability of the past, its different meaning and value for both parties, and how, now that the couple are talking, the past can seem as unstable as the future. |
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There was perennial trouble from Border Reivers, but Elizabeth was inclined to forgive even their depredations rather than pick a quarrel with her Protestant neighbour. |
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Modern historians have pointed out that one reason for Harold's rush to battle was to contain William's depredations and keep him from breaking free of his beachhead. |
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