How To Use Looting In A Sentence
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The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
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Foul-mouthed mobs roved around the dark Edinburgh streets, looting and vandalising premises owned by Italians.
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The worst of the looting was over, and there was enough calm in the shattered streets for her to feel the popular elation, despite the fear and violence that lay below the surface.
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And then there was CityTime, the gargantuan $700 million looting of the city treasury by sticky-fingered outside consultants hired to build an automated payroll system.
Dan Collins: Mayor Bloomberg's Handling of Stephen Goldsmith Firing Not the Problem
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All of these flaws came to a head during the week of rioting and looting, when rolling news media overdosed on graphic but often misleading imagery, politicians over-reacted and the rightwing print media went apeshit.
Has Newsnight lost its way?
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Viviana has been shocked by her country's bankruptcy, devaluation, rocketing inflation and unemployment, all combined with a bout of rioting, looting and street violence.
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U.S. forces have cited armed resistance from inside the complex as the main reason they could not seal off the museum and prevent the looting.
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The chatterers who argued two weeks ago that the war was turning into a quagmire have found a new cause for feigned despair: looting.
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In reality Lavrushka, having got drunk the day before and left his master dinnerless, had been whipped and sent to the village in quest of chickens, where he engaged in looting till the French took him prisoner.
War and Peace
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Across the country, resource-rich provinces are also home to looting, illegal logging and mining activities.
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Neither Bush nor Schwarzenegger said whether any progress had been or could be made in directing more federal funds to California in light of the looting of the federal treasury to fund those policies.
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Days of rioting and looting followed in Caracas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riots, looting and mayhem followed as crowds piled into the lawless city.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the looting following February's earthquake served as an eye-opener to the country's social and economic inequalities, the plight of the trapped miners has again exposed the hardships Chile's poor face in a country where 14 percent of the population lives in poverty, according to the World Bank.
Stacy Torres: How My Father Survived Chile's Mines
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You think the looting, rape and armed terror that emerged within hours in New Orleans couldn't happen elsewhere?
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Cuomo, New York's governor-elect, decried what he called looting and said the "cruel twist
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They are also actively involved in smuggling and looting high-voltage power cables.
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It sparked riots and looting in Tottenham which then spread across the country.
The Sun
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Looting and rape by rebels and their bands of abducted children still occur.
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Frequently, the motive has been looting, with artefacts being smuggled out of the region.
Times, Sunday Times
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The days of looting were ended by successful and well-planned action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riots, looting and mayhem followed as crowds piled into the lawless city.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The map documented ten incidents of “sabotage,” thirty-one incidents of “underground activities,” sixty-nine “attacks on personnel,” 140 incidents of “looting,” eighty-three “wire cuts” of military communications, and one “riot.”
Between War and Peace
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Three police cars were wrecked and cops reported offences of vandalism, graffiti and looting.
The Sun
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Bogle has spoken out this way because the mutual funds industry is legally looting money from investors.
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And while most of the violence in London was characterized by looting, particularly of stores selling sports clothing and electrical goods, outside of the capital it took on an antiauthoritarian tone.
Riots Stoke British Ethnic Tensions
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Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
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In many residential areas of Baghdad yesterday locals had set up private roadblocks, fearful that an outbreak of major violence today could trigger looting.
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There has been lots of looting and lawlessness, with government buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries and museums ransacked.
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After that the crowd went on a rampage of window breaking and looting.
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SCUM will keep on destroying, looting, fucking-up and killing until the money-work system no longer exists and automation is completely instituted or until enough women co-operate with SCUM to make violence unnecessary to achieve these goals, that is, until enough women either unwork or quit work, start looting, leave men and refuse to obey all laws inappropriate to a truly civilized society.
The S.C.U.M. Manifesto
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Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies.
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Rioters ran through the city centre smashing windows and looting shops.
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He said four of the 12 officers have already been suspended for failing to stop looting.
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The Americans resent the charge that they could have prevented the looting, and museum officials are incensed by insinuations that their staff allowed or even profited from it.
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Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens told the panel that "chitter chatter" emerged of planned rioting and looting in Stratford, East London, the location of the Olympic site.
U.K. Police Say Unrest Averted at Olympic Site
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Six youths have been given prison sentences in fast-track trials for looting or attacking police.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any pandering politician who claims to be able to do the same must be honest about which bakery he is looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Commanding 36 ships and 2000 fellow buccaneers, Morgan sacked the town and left his men to the burning and looting.
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The trouble began when gangs began breaking windows and looting shops.
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This may appear justified when you consider that foreigners such as the British and Italians are guilty of looting historical relics.
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So we have those areas that are unoccupied being patrolled by anti-looting squads with assistance from the military.
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Famine and refugee crisis On Jan. 12 Mogadishu's water supply failed after the looting of diesel fuel from the pumping station.
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Shoot-outs, killings, cattle rustling, and looting were the order of the day.
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Any pandering politician who claims to be able to do the same must be honest about which bakery he is looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The officer expressed concern that the situation could worsen overnight after three shootings, looting and a number of attempted carjackings during the afternoon.
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His band of desperados specialized in looting feudal landlords and Mughal treasury.
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People have been killed in the public protests, rioting and looting that has gripped the country.
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There was widespread looting and life became very hazardous, especially for families.
A Channel of Peace
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The protest degenerated into an orgy of looting and shooting.
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Widespread looting in the capital put a damper on the jubilation of a liberated people.
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Heavy buying by treasure-hunters, as well as looting of imperial works by the Germans, Dutch, French and British, brought huge quantities of Chinese fine art into Western collections.
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They could be doing more, especially to stop brazen looting and rampant lawlessness that has added terror to the tragedy in the city.
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CONAKRY: Trading resumed for shops that were spared a weekend looting spree in Guinea's capital Conakry and hospital sources said an army mutiny had claimed some 50 lives and left 100 people injured.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The movement started in 2002 in Spain, where thrifty followers staged choreographed shopping-mall stunts like looting clothes from one store and returning them to another or wearing them back for flash fashion shows.
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The looting that has followed the judgment of the grand jury adds a depressing coda to a sorry affair.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sparked riots and looting in Tottenham which then spread across the country.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, the eco-warriors of Greenpeace have issued dire warnings about looting at the Tuwaitha nuclear facility south-east of Baghdad over the past year.
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There were scattered reports of looting and warnings of a possible health crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was also a change in outlook, as spoliation was no longer viewed narrowly as wartime looting, but as also covering losses suffered by Jewish collectors in Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933.
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Police said they also had reports of looting of relief convoys and offered armed escorts to anyone who requested it.
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He added that there had been reports of widespread looting but that the overall situation was very confused.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within weeks the locals began looting American stores.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within hours looting, arson and murder erupted.
Times, Sunday Times
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For many of the armed bands roaming the region, raiding and looting have become a way of life.
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There might be a market for these when the looting starts in twenty-twelve.
A Tactical Side-by-Side Shotgun?
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And the term "looting" should be reserved for items that are not necessary to preserve human life.
Crooks and Liars
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Frequently, the motive has been looting, with artefacts being smuggled out of the region.
Times, Sunday Times
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His mother had begged him not to go out, anything could happen, there could be riots in the street, looting, vandalism, who knew, with these new times!
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Twitter users have also encouraged others to join in the looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amid the chaos of the postelection violence, hooligans took advantage of the situation, looting and burning houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is more, the greatest loss has been inflicted on them by looting their libraries, which contained the treasures of Sanskrit, Pali and Farsi manuscripts.
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Fans ran riot after the match, overturning cars and looting shops.
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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
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But away from formal politics, the summit was marred by street violence, looting, three shootings and 539 arrests over two days.
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Additional police officers were put on the street to enforce an 8 p. m. curfew aimed at preventing looting.
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Remoteness of the rental date, there is looting and other possible hidden safety problems exist.
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in 1993 paper Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
Economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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Looting the tawdry possessions of the African villagers was both a reprisal and a reward.
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How many were involved in this week's riots and looting?
Times, Sunday Times
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There were iron bars on the windows and a heavy padlock on the door to prevent looting.
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After two days of chaotic looting that heavily damaged Concepcion, the deployment of 14,000 troops to enforce curfews there and in other cities began to instill a measure of calm.
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While the troops were barracked in the Griffin House, two Confederate deserters dressed in stolen Union uniforms had been caught looting homes.
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We don't have enough troops there to have a kind of dissuasive authority that stops the looting that stops the lawlessness and protects our own people.
CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2004
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This has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility, as these bozos masturbated during the irresponsible looting of the Treasury to pay for the Iraq catastrophe.
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More than 3500 SADC troops crossed into Lesotho in September last year at the request of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosili to help restore order in Lesotho after ex!!! tensive looting, burning and rioting in Maseru and two other lowland towns.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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When up to half a million people took to the streets, there was no looting.
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Frequently, the motive has been looting, with artefacts being smuggled out of the region.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the Argentine interior minister had warned against possible looting resulting from the march, demonstrators made no attempt to seize food.
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However, he had no difficulty in desecrating and looting the temple of tons of gold, silver and precious stones before burning it.
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Can't Post | pedro is alive and well and so is his alter-ego-attilla the hun-we will be plundering and looting in mexico between dec23 and jan 4-but if you give up your loot without a struggle we won't plunder and loot you. hahhaarrr me harties
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Soldiers will begin patrolling the streets as rescue efforts continue alongside “isolated outbreaks of looting.”
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 1, 2010
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The mere outbreak of war sets black soldiers to looting and marauding, and war's end, and their elevation to positions of power, drives the simple souls batty.
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The looting of the Summer Palace caused outrage across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The deaths occurred when police acted to stop widespread looting and vandalism.
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Not only had he looted her in material terms, he had committed a far greater crime by looting her spirit.
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Then comes the rude awakening: food riots, industrial stagnation, a reign of lawless looting and plunder, everything George Wallace ever warned us against - but the Supreme Court, who are all anarchists with names ending in - stein or - farb or
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Amid all the celebrations over their recovery, silence continued to enfold the conditions that had enabled the looting of the treasures in the first place.
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Days of rioting and looting followed in Caracas.
Times, Sunday Times
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A year later, though, the commission said it had completed its investigation into Odili's "wanton looting of the treasury of Rivers State" and was ready to arraign him on corruption charges.
Arvind Ganesan: Higher Education's Dirty Little Secret
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How many were involved in this week's riots and looting?
Times, Sunday Times
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The looting occurred along a broad avenue on the northwestern rim of greater Buenos Aires where unemployment has soared well above the national average.
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The racism, the police brutality and the looting have got to stop.
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Those triumphs quickly turned sour when looting and lawlessness took over the thinly patrolled streets, embittering residents, stalling reconstruction and giving the insurgency a jump-start on the occupation authorities.
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Looters also made a comeback, making forays into a presidential palace to scavenge whatever was left behind from earlier bouts of looting.
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Pirates ran from house to house, looting and plundering as they went.
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Though of Western design, the ensemble had been created for the Old Summer Palace near Beijing, whose looting and destruction in 1860 by Anglo-French forces (led by General Cousin-Montauban and the eighth Lord Elgin, whose father acquired marbles from the Parthenon) has become a symbol of national humiliation for the Chinese.
The Affair of the Chinese Bronze Heads
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While the soldiery long saw it as a right, at the highest level looting was authorised to create new collections: in Napoleon's case, the Louvre.
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Viewers could plainly see that many of those looting and burning were non-blacks.
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Within weeks the locals began looting American stores.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then guerrillas stormed the station, killing 16 policemen, looting weapons, releasing detainees and torching several cars.
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They had to content themselves with looting the house and outbuildings.
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
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This is the United States of inadequate supervision by the regulatory authorities, or to indulge in his capacity as the rentier looting.
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There have been no reports of significant looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any pandering politician who claims to be able to do the same must be honest about which bakery he is looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government sent a joint force of presidential guardsmen, parachute commandos and police on Friday to the country's commercial capital, Bobo Dioulasso, where disgruntled troops demanding higher wages had spent several days looting and shooting into the air.
Burkinabé Soldiers Face Prosecution After Mutiny
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The full extent of the losses in this respect will only become apparent when the looting at the National Library is itemised.
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Three police cars were wrecked and cops reported offences of vandalism, graffiti and looting.
The Sun
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Every week, they publish that a boat is arriving, facing the indifference from the authorities, to take away the material from the looting of these metals.
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Theft of Cables and Scrap Metal
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The widespread destruction and looting carried out by the soldiers further damaged the image of the new government.
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Most families left one man behind to defend their properties from looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the year developed after the looting, reports both highlighted the damage and confused the issue.
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But, “looting” is the word archaeologists use when someone takes artifacts from an archaeological site and puts them up for sale.
Odyssey’s Never Ending Quest for Treasure
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London was hit by a third consecutive night of rioting and looting amid fears that the capital was descending into a summer of lawlessness.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was widespread looting and life became very hazardous, especially for families.
A Channel of Peace
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The army was receptive to suggestions from white citizens that blacks should be incarcerated for supposedly pillaging and looting indiscriminately.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don ` t think there should be any repercussions for people who don ` t want to evacuate Nancy, but this is now -- remember, this is a different kind of lotting than the individuals that were looting after Katrina because they needed food or water.
CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005
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The protest degenerated into an orgy of looting and shooting.
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The protests have given way to rioting and looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, in such operations we often find noncombatants involved in acts of violence like rioting or looting.
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The casualties came as police tried to control rioting mobs who rampaged through the city, burning and looting shops and stoning vehicles.
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Riots and looting had destroyed most of the retail and industrial areas.
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Looting, vandalism and thievery has forced many foreigners to flee the country.
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What you have is a pack of confirmed thugs and psychopaths devotedly looting your once great nation.
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There were scattered reports of looting and warnings of a possible health crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twitter users have also encouraged others to join in the looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind him, she hopped from corpse to corpse, looting the bodies.
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He was given 14 months' jail for taking part in looting and is also featured in the documentary.
The Sun
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Of course the fabled mineral wealth of the country was a good reason why there were so many visitors in the first place, as the many stories of plunder and looting by famous invaders testify.
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The protests have given way to rioting and looting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite This Day withdrawing the article and apologising, protestors burned down their offices, barricaded the streets with burning tyres, and began looting and burning homes and businesses.
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There were reports of widespread looting as football hooligans stampeded through the city centre.
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Two people have been detained for suspected looting.
The Sun
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South Ossetian militias marauded within the Russian controlled areas, looting and burning Georgian villages and terrorizing the local population.
The Return
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All along she has been, notwithstanding the weaselly circumlocution 'cleared by the Commons Authorities', effectively looting the public purse to maintain her family home.
Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary
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Rakesh was involved in a case of looting registered against him at Sadar police station, Gohana, whereas Gulabsher had been involved in a case of dacoity and murder.
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He volunteered to combat looting in the chaos of the strike, and sjambokked nine people for looting.
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Looting was less of a problem than some impromptu gangsterism, which is being suppressed now that law enforcement has arrived in force.
More than a tragedy — a scandal « BuzzMachine
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In a second recent incident involving the SPLA and a subclan of the Nuer, local officials accused the military of looting and burning Nuer huts, and a group of elders in Unity State wrote a letter to world leaders that said crimes against humanity were committed, including the burning of homes and the killing of civilians.
Hundreds of civilian casualties in S. Sudan battle
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The relation between icon and ruler is particularly well documented for the Shiva linga, whose looting, display, and desecration clearly carried a powerful political message, even if framed within the context of orthodox conformity.
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The latter group is made up of those whining whale lovers, owl spotters and tree huggers who try to prevent trawlers, loggers, miners and oildrillers from making an honest living looting our planet's finite resources.
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China has accused the Dalai Lama of inciting the riots, which it describes as looting by a small group of Tibetan separatists.
U.S. Dollar Falls Against Yuan
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As city after city was blitzed, there was some dismay, a little looting but, overall, a remarkable stoicism and sense of community.
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The irony is that every time someone finds and salvages an old shipwreck, archaeologists scream their heads off and accuse the divers and salvors of looting and obliterating an underwater site.
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Looting and rape by rebels and their bands of abducted children still occur.
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in a 1993 paper titled "Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
Postbulletin.com Local News
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A rioting, looting, feral underclass?
Times, Sunday Times
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Two people have been detained for suspected looting.
The Sun
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Moammar Gadhafi's overthrow and the widespread looting of his vast armories.
Alarm Over Smuggled Libyan Arms
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The brothers who own the house became part of the city's nouveau riche when they heisted a bank during the looting.
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Looting of small, valuable items that fell outside the purview of the ASI was a problem, according to Shashi Misra, the chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
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OLAF, the EU Fraud Squad, had not yet heard of this report which makes one wonder if attempts are being made to bury it so as not to rock the boat and to conceal from the European people the extent to which MEPs are looting the public purse for their own enrichment.
EuroSwine at Work
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Allowing the looting of Iraq's museums is another indication of our contempt for the Mideast - and our unfitness to rule it
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Policemen allegedly pursued looting suspects, leaving the handbrake off and the vehicle out of gear.
