How To Use Looter In A Sentence

  • With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
  • Soldiers have been ordered to shoot looters on sight.
  • Tanks and armoured personnel carriers guarded government buildings as looters ran amok in the city of 18m. Times, Sunday Times
  • A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.
  • They are out to get him -- a vast network of terrorist professors, angry liberal operatives and comsymp cultural elites; the Cornel Wests, George Soroses, the "creatures" at Media Matters, and of course, the "Blumenthal left;" all of them conspiring to advance an insidious plot to sabotage his ambitions, unleash black looters and suicide bombers on the Heartland, and blacklist his allies. Max Blumenthal: The Demons of David Horowitz
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  • They were told to shoot looters on sight.
  • IT hasn't taken long for human rights groups to moan about sentences handed out for rioters and looters. The Sun
  • So I went and got blootered in a Brighton hotel.
  • They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes.
  • Judges and ministers are concerned about public anger over lenient sentences, most recently for looters and rioters. Times, Sunday Times
  • In other districts, vigilantes set up roadblocks and patrolled neighbourhoods to deter thieves and looters.
  • As such, helicopter borne sections will swoop down on suspect vehicles in pursuit of looters and the illegal oil trade.
  • Evacuation attempts were disrupted by gunfire and armed looters ruled the streets.
  • In the process, he unravelled the labyrinthine means by which a painting bought by war profiteers and sold to German army looters found its way into the cultural heart of Britain.
  • Looters also made a comeback, making forays into a presidential palace to scavenge whatever was left behind from earlier bouts of looting.
  • Some 106 looters and other lawbreakers have been arrested.
  • Despite having lived in this area all of my life, it was the first time I've spent New Year's Eve locally, in my local, getting blootered on Guinness, champagne and whisky.
  • Amid the chaos, looters have taken to the streets. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was almost deserted - looters were shot on sight and anyone who could flee had fled.
  • The levels of the cordate are: tombarolo or looter; capo zona who runs the tombaroli in a specific region; middle man (the actual smuggler); the "Swiss" dealer; the auction house (or the link-man, a Robert Hecht-type figure); the collector; the academic "authenticator"; and the museum curator. Exposing the Culture Thieves
  • She recounted incidents when men had jumped out of the car and robbed looters at knifepoint. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others pointed out that looters during the riots in Manchester were locked up for similar crimes. The Sun
  • Each hole that a looter drills not only drains or spills thousands of gallons, it can cause the whole system to shut down for several days.
  • For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON
  • The next blow came in the conflict's immediate aftermath, as looters ran unchecked through Baghdad.
  • THE rioters and looters are despicable. The Sun
  • For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON
  • In some neighbourhoods, residents erected street barricades of tiles, huge rocks and sandbags to keep looters out.
  • Unlike last week's looters, there were no dawn raids to arrest the ringleaders. Times, Sunday Times
  • First impressions can be deceptive, as she discovered on that first night when she got blootered and half the house took against her.
  • If his haul wasn't so pitiful — his bag had two packets of defrosted prawn dumplings and a handful of vacuum-packed seafood sticks inside — Mr Takahashi might be taken for a looter.
  • We are the only people back in at present, and the area could be seen as easy pickings for looters.
  • MASERU - Two people were killed when security forces dispersed hundreds of looters in Lesotho's capital Maseru and the rural town of Mafeteng, soldiers said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • But an item-by-item inventory of the most valued pieces carried away by the looters hardly seemed to capture the magnitude of what had occurred.
  • She recounted incidents when men had jumped out of the car and robbed looters at knifepoint. Times, Sunday Times
  • The milling crowd of looters, suddenly electrified, drew back. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • The court heard she chauffeured looters around in her Smart car. The Sun
  • The looters retuned the next day, stealing the library's most valuable manuscripts and books.
  • In the case of the riots, Zak believes that most of the looters were probably "neurologically intact". Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world?
  • Here pass commercial caravans, hybrid merchant tribes like the Hausa, throngs of pilgrims, streams of peoples, herds of cattle moving to busy markets, rude incursive shoppers or looters from the desert, coming to buy or rob or rule in this highway belt. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
  • Then the sea began to strip away tile mud, and it seemed as if the site would fall prey to looters.
  • Looters had stolen the furniture, the windowpanes, the electric fixtures.
  • It becomes clear these men are self-styled vigilantes who are attempting to intimidate the looters and take back the goods they have stolen.
  • Prison governors, penal reformers and lawyers have been critical of the number of rioters and looters being sent to already overcrowded jails. Times, Sunday Times
  • Almost as many think convicted rioters and looters should lose not only their liberty but their welfare benefits. The Sun
  • The looters were trying to get in and out of JD Sports before the "feds" arrive.
  • Stein neglectfully forgot to mention, however, that the looters include the Clintons, who, though pikers next to Blankfein or Schwarzman, have done pretty well compared to you and me. There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals.
  • You have the rifle you brought with you to defend yourself from looters, and you have a magazine of ammunition.
  • And when one gets smashed and blootered, one does the decent thing and keeps mum - unlike footballers, who just cry for Mum.
  • Elsewhere, rioters and looters continued to be dealt with. The Sun
  • The court heard she chauffeured looters around in her Smart car. The Sun
  • Crowds of looters waited for it to beach firmly on a sand bank so that the serious business of stripping it bare could begin.
  • In both provinces, the bases which were "transfered" to the Iraqi security forces were actually stripped bare by looters in short order. Archive 2006-10-01
  • If his haul wasn't so pitiful — his bag had two packets of defrosted prawn dumplings and a handful of vacuum-packed seafood sticks inside — Mr Takahashi might be taken for a looter.
  • Usually you would find a cave like this and it would be a war zone oflooters 'pits, yet there was not even a quick cathole in here. NPR Topics: News
  • Prison governors, penal reformers and lawyers have been critical of the number of rioters and looters being sent to already overcrowded jails. Times, Sunday Times
  • Officers in riot gear raided the homes of suspected looters across South London early yesterday. The Sun
  • Apart from spreading fear, many rioters and looters showed scant regard for human life. Times, Sunday Times
  • But an item-by-item inventory of the most valued pieces carried away by the looters hardly seemed to capture the magnitude of what had occurred.
  • A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters.
  • They ceded the streets to marauding looters.
  • Thousands of irreplaceable treasures were stolen by looters from the Iraqi national museum during the war.
  • Of course Laura Johnson, from a £1m house in Orpington, or Alexis Bailey, a classroom assistant in a primary school, were apparently caught up with the disadvantaged looters. UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter
  • Much of the looting was selective thievery of a quite small number of valuable pieces, with smashing and burning of furniture and furnishings carried out to simulate looter-like behaviour.
  • It becomes clear these men are self-styled vigilantes who are attempting to intimidate the looters and take back the goods they have stolen.
  • I can hardly think of a worse fate for any society than to be led into the future by the political class of gangsters, marauders, looters, and liars.
  • Ultimately, when we talk about government, we are talking about a bunch of ignorant bullies, looters, and plunderers.
  • Bandits and looters continue to bring down pylons carrying high voltage cables out in the desert road.
  • Our young women are now officially the most blootered in Europe, and some surveys show a terrifying, tenfold increase in the incidence of cirrhosis in people aged 25-40 over the past three decades.
  • Third, probably very few of the participants (other than perhaps adventitious semi-professional looters) expected to gain anything in terms of significant personal profit or meaningful social betterment as a consequence of the upheavals in Los Angeles. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
  • You could always stay in a 'hangover hotel', which the Scottish Executive is considering establishing for people so blootered that they can't find their way home at night.
  • They had been in fear of their lives as they scavenged for food while the authorities operated a shoot-to-kill policy against looters.
  • A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two policemen were mown down chasing looters in the riots. The Sun
  • For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON
  • The looters behaved as if altogether bereft of their senses.
  • Remember when night buses charged £1.70 (now it's £1) which confused the blootered late stop-outs?
  • She strode up, sweat from her face and arms dripping as she glowered at us, a looter and a western journalist.
  • She was packing up her most precious belongings and preparing to abandon the house - the talk was of looters. Times, Sunday Times
  • I really need to get exceptionally blootered in public.
  • The rioters and looters being locked up have triggered a big rise in gang activity. The Sun
  • In one scene, road-side looters steal from a family at knife-point, while the father looks on helplessly, arms raised in surrender, repeating "God is great. Finding Missing Persians
  • With the additional threat of armadas and independent looters, keeping the American riches flowing into Spain became a very complex problem.
  • The guide continues: "Although on average Scots consume less alcohol per head than the French, much of it is in the form of binge-drinking; that is, going out to the pub on Friday and Saturday night and getting, well, blootered."
  • Looters hit a police station in Petionville, an upscale suburb in the hills above the capital.
  • Looters were busily helping themselves to the weapons.
  • He pursued a different strategy...and got blootered.
  • Many of the rioters were looters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like looters after a big raid who tried to steal the mangled possessions of shattered houses.
  • To leave them thus open and exposed is to place temptation in the way of would - be looters and smugglers.
  • He'll be along once he's taken care of the last of the looters. TREASON KEEP
  • So, this is a very difficult situation, and they are trying to stop people like the price gougers and perhaps the looters from making things even worse.
  • Add a finger of kir to be posh, or a sugarcube and a splash of brandy to be blootered.
  • That may sound logical enough but in fact those are the morals of a looter.
  • By the time Katherine R. Tsiang visited the temple caves of Xiangtangshan in 1990, the sixth-century complex bore witness to both the Northern Qi's glorious sculpture and its irrevocable despoliation by looters and traders. Gaining Enlightenment Through Technology
  • By the time he wrote the letter, Nelson knew the four charges against him: unpremeditated murder for "erratically" driving the Humvee "at excessive speed," carrying a possible life sentence; lying about the looters, up to five years; threatening Burden if he didn't lie, up to three years. THE NEWS BLOG
  • Now shipwreck looters brave a police helicopter circling overhead as they carry their spoils away by bicycle.
  • The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.

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