This meant that the sailors from these ports could do what they wanted, including wrecking, grounding and plundering other ships. |
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After the Spanish conquest, greedy colonialists began plundering the Inca's realm. |
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I am hoping that my hirsute body will prevent any bugs from plundering the sanctity of my inner ear. |
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Katrina had already dug her way through the table and was lavishly plundering the scrumptious food before us. |
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Earth is overpopulated, and in an effort to provide for everyone we are plundering our natural resources. |
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They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on. |
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The plundering of body parts of radiation victims reached ghoulish proportions. |
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They talked as they ate, discussing the journey and their comrades who were currently plundering another village a few miles away. |
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An Estonian man suspected of plundering millions from hundreds of online bank accounts accounts across Europe was arrested last week. |
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Has there been a rash of rape, pillage and plundering by marauding bands of illegals? |
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They are not in the business of plundering the past, they are in the business of rescuing large lumps of history from the wrecking ball. |
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Composers approached him with reverential caution, rarely plundering the text direct. |
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The forest division is ill-equipped to tackle the plundering of forest resources or protect the rights of the tribals. |
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It's so good, in fact, that companies are actually plundering Wright's style in advertisements. |
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As a result of the plundering of trees, floods have become a common occurrence. |
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Harvey had faced 45 balls, plundering eight fours and three sixes, and no-one else had scored a boundary. |
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In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley. |
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Kathryn thinks that Governments have been plundering the National Insurance fund, and should have invested it. |
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But while she was talking to fans inside, the robber was busy plundering her unlocked car in nearby Barker's Pool car park. |
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But it was for his successful plundering of Spanish merchant ships that he was knighted. |
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This was connected with an article of mine against a totalitarian sect, plundering its supporters. |
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Quite right: evading management measures, plundering the riches of the sea and the maltreatment of crew members have no place in fishing. |
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The plundering of their lands and resources endangers these communities' economic, social and cultural survival. |
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This is because the Europeanized elites who've ruled the country have long joined foreign corporate exploiters in plundering Bolivia's resources and people. |
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The family doctor or the multinational companies that keep plundering the health sector? |
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It is one spore in a larger pox, the plundering of oceans worldwide. |
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There is no room here for fast living and the plundering of economic resources. |
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As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans. |
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Hussein, a 45-year-old father of four from Tal Rifat, a town north of Aleppo, complains of rampant plundering by rebel militias. |
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During the war communities in Unita-controlled areas had been subjected to violence, bush justice and plundering, an Institute of Security Studies report says. |
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I found another theory that held that the plundering and subsequent destruction of the palaces, such as Knossos, was the cause for the retreat of Minoan culture. |
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McCain said those were U.S. weapons that ISIS stole during its plundering of Mosul. |
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He was accused in a report of plundering the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mineral resources, while the Ugandan army was involved in the five-year Congolese war. |
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For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder. |
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Now the newest rich were plundering the old neighborhoods near the town center and laying waste to the old stores. |
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In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation. |
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Pirates ran from house to house, looting and plundering as they went. |
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How can we strike a better balance with nature, conserve energy and turn to renewable resources, instead of plundering and despoiling the planet? |
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King Hassan II had then proceeded to carry out ethnic cleansing, invading the Territory and plundering its natural resources. |
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Heedful of the need to safeguard this great country's cultural heritage, Egypt has condemned the plundering of Iraq's museums. |
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Looting of archaeological sites and plundering of historic buildings continue unabated. |
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We cannot go on plundering our natural resources and then look to science and technology to try and mend the damage. |
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Reaching Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people. |
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In particular, the regions of Cumbria and Lancashire suffered time and again from the plundering of the Irish. |
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Who in Holland could object to the plundering of a plunderer? |
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There should be respect for asylum, but this should not become cells, pockets of anarchy, of all those going around in hoods violating, extorting and plundering the life of the citizens. |
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His semiannual plundering expeditions in the north not only brought many slaves to Cordóba but also helped to divert the Muslims from his usurpation of power. |
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But then a former lawyer and a wheeler-dealer got control and started cooking the company's books, before setting down to some all-out plundering. |
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In council which corrected from his name, the leading role was played by the grandees plundering treasury, uniting in conflicting groupings that did impossible law and order maintenance. |
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Unfortunately, while our fishermen are hamstrung and their vessels in a state of disrepair, factory ships from Japan, Russia and elsewhere are plundering the fishery resource in French waters. |
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Unlike the Bloc, we do not believe that the Government of Canada should simply raise taxes only to transfer all the money to the premiers, plundering any surplus and leaving the Government of Canada weak and emasculated. |
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But, say Editors, they're not plundering a now-fashionable past. |
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They had little difficulty plundering the natives and defeating the local Qing troops. |
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But most games remain trapped in the economics of their time: they are closed markets, with a variety of static business models, most of which involve destroying your opponent, monopolising designs, or plundering resources. |
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Critics, including most recently the Prince of Wales, accuse the biotechnology industry of being more interested in plundering the crop than splendour in the grass. |
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We condemn the greed of the monopolies, the plundering of national wealth, the savage exploitation of the workers, with miserable working conditions and attacks on social benefits. |
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To counteract this plundering of the fund, which has been going on for far too long, the Bloc Quebecois has, on a number of occasions, proposed the creation of a self-sustaining fund. |
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It is this affirmation of greed that has led to the plundering of our fragile little planet to the point of exhaustion and an economic system that devours the weak. |
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Neo-colonialism no longer has anything to do with settlement, but once again entails a process of plundering the natural and financial resources of countries in the South. |
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On April 16, 2001, a UN panel of experts claimed that some of the states at war in the DRC were guilty of plundering the country's mineral riches and should have sanctions applied against them. |
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Attention was drawn to the plundering occurring in the Caribbean and Latin America and the need to protect information on the location or even of the pure existence of sites. |
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The non-rivalrous character of the good therefore calls for a management approach that is neither competitive nor plundering, free market characteristics which would lead to its extinction. |
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Dost thinke 'chill labor to be poore, No no, ich haue a-doe..Ich will a plundering too. |
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Both regions were also used as bases for Dutch privateers plundering Portuguese and Spanish trade routes. |
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They were often plundering from plunderers. |
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In 1152, Eystein II of Norway led a plundering raid down the east coast of Britain. |
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Here, the ships are described as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. |
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In 1462, the Archbishop Adolf II raided the city of Mainz, plundering and killing 400 inhabitants. |
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Although never a site of battle, Trujillo suffered from occupation by Chilean troops and their plundering of the surrounding countryside. |
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Seventy-five years later, hagiographic historians are still covering for a cardsharp who dealt a hand that is still plundering the public and centralizing power. |
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Based on legends and folk songs, for years, Yermak had been involved in robbing and plundering on the Volga with the hetman Ivan Kolzo and four other Cossack leaders. |
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The Cossacks were Razin's main supporters and followed him during his first Persian campaign in 1667, plundering and pillaging Persian cities on the Caspian Sea. |
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After they subjugated the Alans, the Huns and their Alan auxiliaries started plundering the wealthy settlements of the Greuthungi, or eastern Goths, to the west of the Don. |
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Open revolt ensued, leading to 6 years of plundering throughout the Balkans, the death of a Roman Emperor and a disastrous defeat of the Roman army. |
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Ulfilas's parents were captured by plundering Goths in the village of Sadagolthina in the city district of Parnassus and were carried off to Transdanubia. |
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They would attack merchant shipping from any nation, plundering the wealth of the ship, and most of the time sinking or burning a great number who fell into their hands. |
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Sint Eustatius, a key supply port for the Patriots, was sacked by British forces under George Rodney on 3 February 1782, plundering the island's wealth. |
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It was built around the possession of fortified places and the close pursuit of the Danes to harass them and impede their preferred occupation of plundering. |
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As the Lancastrian army advanced southwards, a wave of dread swept London, where rumours were rife about savage northerners intent on plundering the city. |
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Fortified military camps and watchtowers were also used on the southeast coast, in this case to stop migration and plundering by the Franks, Angles and Saxons. |
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