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  • He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks.
  • In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
  • According to the pirate legend, after months at sea, pillaging and singing sea chanties, the marauders had to stop in at a pirate-friendly settlement to unload their looted cargo, load up on supplies, and visit the local taverns and brothels. Loaded Guns, Barrels of Rum, and a Silk Ribbon
  • Has the country not been looted for the last 70 years? Times, Sunday Times
  • US troops took Baghdad, then stood by as marauding gangs looted the city. Times, Sunday Times
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  • China is to send a team of artefact hunters to nearly 50 countries to track down thousands of treasures looted by foreign armies 150 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sweeping staircase has been refurbished and the house has a new roof, conservatory and flooring, as well as new fireplaces to replace the looted originals. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has deaccessioned this Portrait of a Courtier by Jan Mostaert after concluding that it was looted by the Nazis.
  • They looted anything of value, and I use that term advisedly.
  • According to officials who visited the settlements - everything has been destroyed, uprooted, ripped out, or looted.
  • The tomb of Djehutynakht (je-hooty-knocked) and his wife, also named Djehutynakht, was thoroughly looted in antiquity, but artifacts the thieves left behind provide an extraordinary window on life in ancient Egypt. Exhibitions: Egypt's Model Afterlife
  • Hundreds of people later gathered, resulting in a five-hour stand-off against police as missiles were thrown, shops and businesses looted and public houses set on fire.
  • Yet it is worth noting that, by forswearing future acquisitions of recently looted work, as the Getty did under Ms. True's leadership, the museum actually did what no other major acquiring museum would do for many years. The Beautiful and the True
  • Revenge has been conjectured, for a popular officer in the division had been abducted by a party from the maquis the day before; so has trouble over the division's gold reserve, looted in its turn from occupied banks.
  • Any sensible legal system has to rely in part on sanctions brought to bear after people have stolen property or looted corporations.
  • A bunch of pot hunters who looted ancient relic sites and sold priceless artifacts for profit have received probation.
  • 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.
  • Africa is no longer a commodity seam fit only to be looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rioters did not try escape, and instead focused their rage on the prison kitchen, which was looted and then trashed, before order was restored by a combined police and correctional services task team.
  • Though the bank was looted, the vault miraculously remained secure.
  • What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
  • Not the people who looted, but the people who didn't. Times, Sunday Times
  • Housing estates have been burnt down, schools ransacked, shops looted.
  • Not the people who looted, but the people who didn't. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time they returned to work, the store had been looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Several other businesses, including a chemist which was looted and set ablaze, were attacked along nearby streets.
  • Lost are the Kunduz Hoard and the Bagram Treasure - looted rather than destroyed because coins and ivories, well known from catalogue records, continue to turn up on the illicit art market.
  • As well as cameras and laptops, volunteers are given disguises to pose as antiques dealers so they can photograph looted artefacts for a database. Times, Sunday Times
  • So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program. Washington Post Editors Dismiss Teacher Layoff Crisis On Same Day Massive Teacher Layoffs Are Reported
  • Even worse, lots of antiquities have been looted directly from excavation sites, ruining them for history.
  • I was in the building as the masked men looted the offices, ripping hard drives from computers and destroying legal files. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ministry, bombed and then looted during the US-led war on Iraq, was re-opened without a minister, ambassadors or diplomatic muscle.
  • Others were looted and burnt as punishment for student protests. Times, Sunday Times
  • I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we've looted and the people we've subjugated.
  • The banks, which provide credit and cash, have been looted, irrigation systems destroyed, road travel restricted, markets closed, warehouses and grain silos pillaged.
  • More years ago than I care to remember, we worked ourselves into a lather of indignation in student meetings over multinationals, looted funds and bribery in Africa.
  • Most of the shops had been looted by the time the operation was over. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vehicles were set alight and shops looted. The Sun
  • At first they looted, burned and pillaged and then sailed off back to Denmark or Norway, heavily laden with gold and slaves.
  • They looted; they killed; they deprived innocent people of their homes and their livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many sites are being looted in broad daylight and at least one bulldozer is being used. Times, Sunday Times
  • As well as cameras and laptops, volunteers are given disguises to pose as antiques dealers so they can photograph looted artefacts for a database. Times, Sunday Times
  • It also asked people to return looted property. Times, Sunday Times
  • China is to send a team of artefact hunters to nearly 50 countries to track down thousands of treasures looted by foreign armies 150 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • After the war, he dreamt often of that empty Warsaw house, where anything left behind would have been stolen, anything movable looted. SEA MUSIC
  • Every kind of business, from rundown corner markets to the Gucci storefront on South Peters Street, has been looted.
  • Though the site had been looted in antiquity, many artifacts survived, including those found within a single burial mound known as kurgan 1. At the Museums
  • What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
  • It is just another stone building stuffed with treasure to be looted. The English Civil War: A People's History
  • Others were looted and burnt as punishment for student protests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although they suspect additional pieces may have been stolen, they declined to speculate on the scope of the additional uncatalogued items that may have been looted.
  • Rebel fighters claim that regime soldiers looted the treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Has the country not been looted for the last 70 years? Times, Sunday Times
  • In this robbery, the value several million pounds cashes and the jewelry are looted, the criminal offender gets off scot-free until now.
  • The building they stayed in had already been looted bare, with straw lining the floor for newcomers to sleep on, and the wooden pillar at the base of the broken stairs used to tether horses.
  • A new offence of dealing in looted artefacts will be introduced as well as a'blue shield' symbol to identify protected cultural property. Times, Sunday Times
  • But one suspects that their looted statue of the Athenian tyrannicides was not on public view at Susa.
  • Rioters have looted shops this week, carrying away goods in full view of media cameras.
  • The following day, the family home was looted and burnt. Times, Sunday Times
  • A library had been ransacked and shops looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
  • Well-intentioned U.N. officials had to run from their cars, which were then looted and set ablaze.
  • Again, there is no single market in the countries neighbouring the region, for ivory, gold, aluminum and others that are looted from the area.
  • The poverty, sorrow of humans takes a back seat as the Treasury is looted and the Thou shalt not killers run out to kill in sanctioned Murder. Source: Joe Wilson racking up the dollars after 'you lie' comment
  • They are all being looted. Hispanic men, laughing, carry out cases of Budweiser.
  • Status Offline The race is on to uncover the golden splendors of its Thracian past before sites are looted and developers move in.
  • Back in 2008, an acquaintance tut-tutted and brushed aside my complaints about those Philly fans, who overturned cars and looted a luggage store. Canada, the civilized
  • What leads to looting of taxpayers is: (1) not having to defend *any* reasonable story about future returns (2) politically enabled players taking a short term payday on a huge amount of unsustainable business (3) with the players knowing somebody else will pay for the ultimate massive shortfall, a shortfall much more massive that the monies actually looted. William Isaac is Wrong on Market Value Accounting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The invaders burned, killed and looted wherever they went.
  • The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
  • A few years earlier, when a Coast Guard cutter in hot pursuit of a Lake Erie rumrunner ran aground near Port Colborne, Ontario, it was looted and ransacked by a crowd of locals, its wiring cut, its cylinders filled with sand. LAST CALL
  • The claim here is that even if the system does not go bankrupt, future retirees still will be stiffed because the trust fund has been looted repeatedly by previous presidents to finance their pet political projects.
  • British officers and, in some instances, their families were killed; armories were looted; and treasuries were sacked.
  • On this particular day bottle stores were broken into, bottle stores were looted and in a situation like that one could expect the tsotsi element to make full use of an opportunity like this and this is exactly what they did … At 3 I was still at Phefeni. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
  • Many museums, including the Met, have returned artifacts stolen or looted to their rightful owners.
  • This is a school that had been looted in the midst of the war.
  • The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population.
  • In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol.
  • The following day, the family home was looted and burnt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Property and even human beings were randomly set on fire and shops looted during the violence.
  • Thousands of extra police were drafted in as shops were looted, cars torched and buildings set ablaze. The Sun
  • Vehicles were set alight and shops looted. The Sun
  • During the riot shops were looted and cars damaged or set on fire.
  • A woman jailed for accepting a looted pair of shorts became the first person to have her riots sentence reduced yesterday. The Sun
  • Not only had he looted her in material terms, he had committed a far greater crime by looting her spirit.
  • These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs.
  • Washington blames the "bankster" thieves who looted trillions of dollars through mojo financial schemes which allowed them to create money out of air backed by "derivatives. Veterans Today
  • Years of warfare and sanctions have taken an enormous toll, with classrooms damaged and looted - and one in four children not going to school at all.
  • By the time they returned to work, the store had been looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • More than 300 people were believed to have been involved in the violence, which saw police being pelted with missiles, shops looted and cars attacked.
  • American authorities have scaled back the estimates of how much treasure was looted from Iraq's National Museum after discovering that museum officials have been stashing items in secret vaults for at least 13 years.
  • In 1995, thieves burrowed through the wall of a storeroom used to house artefacts at the Temple of Montu in Karnak, and looted some 55 scarabs and statues.
  • The criminal who looted the bank has been hounded down.
  • What do you believe governments, given the resources, should be doing to prevent this destruction and sale of looted antiquities?
  • In 1900 the Boxers besieged the foreign legations in Beijing for two months until they were relieved by an international force which occupied and looted the capital.
  • The thrifts were looted by borrowers, who used inflated appraisals and phony financial statements to obtain funds they had no hope of paying back.
  • United Nations premises were looted and personnel were molested by demonstrators.
  • I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we've looted and the people we've subjugated.
  • For over 30 years the cordate have been bringing objects out of the country, via Switzerland, all of which have been looted, and a great proportion of which are of world importance, ranging in value from $100,000 to $50 million. Exposing the Culture Thieves
  • It offends and horrifies us when we learn of decaying archaeological sites, looted museums and burning libraries.
  • the robbers left the looted train
  • After the war, he dreamt often of that empty Warsaw house, where anything left behind would have been stolen, anything movable looted. SEA MUSIC
  • Police and fire service forensics teams picked through the wreckage of a torched car showroom housing 70 cars and a hardware shop which was looted for axes and saws in some of the worst street violence in Britain for years.
  • His cronies looted the country to buy villas in Brussels and France. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'd expected to see looted shops, broken glass, and a lot of mess, but it really was shocking to see the Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war-dead, daubed with graffiti.
  • His cronies looted the country to buy villas in Brussels and France. Times, Sunday Times
  • The invading troops looted and raped wherever they went.
  • They range from looted gold and silver Byzantine coins to Roman pottery and glass worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • The local railway station authorities today recovered the money looted by two policemen from four migrant workers yesterday.
  • Bathore is armed to the teeth, from pistols to anti-tank guns looted from the government.
  • Bits in there about Nestle's (and other water-raiders ') ruthless rapaciousness and local communities' successful (and unsuccessful) efforts to preserve their precious irreplaceable clean drinking water from being looted, among other pearls of wisdom. Getting to third base with our pristine Columbia Gorge (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • It is just another stone building stuffed with treasure to be looted. The English Civil War: A People's History
  • Rebel fighters claim that regime soldiers looted the treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • US troops took Baghdad, then stood by as marauding gangs looted the city. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vehicles were set alight and shops looted. The Sun
  • Palace after palace was looted in the orgy of destruction that was the sack of Baghdad.
  • On the fringe of the market were parked military vehicles or vehicles "requisitioned" by the Cobras who were busy unloading fresh supplies of goods looted in the Bacongo and Makelekele areas. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • US officials said that many items originally thought to have been looted were placed in hidden vaults, discovered inside the museum this week, for protection before the war began.
  • The race is on to uncover the golden splendors of its Thracian past before sites are looted and developers move in.
  • Precisely where the looted antiquities are going remains a mystery. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the riot shops were looted and cars damaged or set on fire.
  • In 1900 the Boxers besieged the foreign legations in Beijing for two months until they were relieved by an international force which occupied and looted the capital; Cixi and the emperor fled in disguise.
  • Rebels advanced on the capital which erupted in anarchy and mayhem as armed gangs looted and fought each other on the streets.
  • Many sites are being looted in broad daylight and at least one bulldozer is being used. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many sites are being looted in broad daylight and at least one bulldozer is being used. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although they suspect additional pieces may have been stolen, they declined to speculate on the scope of the additional uncatalogued items that may have been looted.
  • Poor Ishimara, whoever he was, the Americans had looted his corpse.
  • He said that 15 to 20 percent of losses was what "everyone learned to live with in 1991 and 1992" and that aid workers even coined a term to euphemize the theft - "traditional distribution" - because even though the food was getting looted, it still ended up in local markets, having the ancillary effect of reducing overall food prices and making food more affordable for the poor. NYT > Home Page
  • Mobs assaulted any black person they saw on the street, ransacked and burned homes in African-American neighborhoods, and looted stores owned by blacks and “sympathetic” whites.
  • In that time, his forces looted the country 's wealth and butchered its people. Times, Sunday Times
  • We never do dacoity,we only sieze looted belongings of common people with criteria of social justice. Some press releases of the CPI(Maoist) Karnataka State Committee
  • The mob looted many shops in the area.
  • Africa is no longer a commodity seam fit only to be looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though the bank was looted, the vault miraculously remained secure.
  • It also asked people to return looted property. Times, Sunday Times
  • It wouldn't count," you said one morning as we set up our breakfast on the counter of the ringtoss booth: bananas looted from dozing monkeys, apples left out for the Arabian stallions, honey from the trailer of the freak show's Bee Man. NPR Topics: News
  • The mobs stoned cars and looted shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scared that the site would be looted, he immediately contacted British military representatives in Norway.
  • A library had been ransacked and shops looted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rebels advanced on the capital which erupted in anarchy and mayhem as armed gangs looted and fought each other on the streets.
  • These children have typhoid, they should be in isolation, but the isolation hospital was looted.
  • On Sunday night, dacoits looted valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh from a house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar after assaulting the aged residents.
  • Many are fakes, but genuine artefacts are looted or dug up by treasure seekers.
  • Trading stores were looted and telegraph wires cut.
  • 'collaborationist' aristocrats, lynched, raped, looted, burned --- as if those same proles had not groveled befbre the kzinti and kept war production going for theml Lunatic political factions rioted against each other or did actual armed combat. Inconstant Star
  • They were reported to be unloading trucks filled with looted furniture.
  • A food storage depot was looted and burned down during the night and businesses were badly hit by the tense atmosphere yesterday.
  • Mr Whyman said initial investigations suggested the violence, in which a chemist's shop was looted and set on fire, did not appear to be pre-planned.
  • This gang had allegedly looted an amount of Rs 61 lakh and killed five persons in nine incidents of crime committed in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh during the past two-and-half years.
  • On Sunday night, dacoits looted valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh from a house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar after assaulting the aged residents.
  • Velociraptor probably plain coordinates? by their silver how to be looted?
  • A new offence of dealing in looted artefacts will be introduced as well as a'blue shield' symbol to identify protected cultural property. Times, Sunday Times
  • Very little of the looted art has been recovered or returned to its owners. Times, Sunday Times
  • In that time, his forces looted the country 's wealth and butchered its people. Times, Sunday Times
  • No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed. Charles Ferguson: Summers Down, Fifty Odd More to Go

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