How To Use Pillage In A Sentence

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.
If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
According to international law, this kind of activity is a violation of occupation laws as well as of human rights laws and, in certain cases, might be defined as pillage," says the petition. Undefined
Well prior to the outbreak of the current war, they warned the Pentagon of the dangers to Iraq's cultural heritage posed by postwar pillage and destruction.
Deficit – An excuse to do anything really out of order, eg: "Yes, I did spill red wine on your new white carpet, but what you must remember is that Labour left that carpet with a deficit of red wine; my spillage was the only responsible course of action. The buzz words of 2010 explained

That same year another daimyo, also with shogunal consent, led an expedition to Taiwan to explore the possibilities of setting up a trading center there, although nothing came of the attempt. 43 In 1616, a Japanese merchant-adventurer named Murayama Toan (村山東庵) sent thirteen junks to conquer Taiwan. 44 They were ambushed in a creek by headhunters and decided to give up on Taiwan and instead pillage the Chinese coast. How Taiwan Became Chinese
Fire crews dealt with the blaze before attending to a diesel spillage at Narberth Bridge and making the road safe after an accident involving two cars at Robeston Wathen.
The vessels of the Mangalore merchants came here to trade with the natives of this part of India for cargoes of spices, a fine kind of cloth called buckram and other valuable wares; but their vessels were frequently attacked, and too often pillaged by the pirates who infested these seas, and who were justly regarded as formidable enemies. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
As I turn the other cheek the pillager has raped my daughters and my wife. Crime, culpability and punishment
We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
This dose would elicit maximal insulin response with minimal glucose spillage to urine.
In other lands however there are pillagers and marauders that keep me strong, but soon will come a time when slaughter shall cover these lands and I shall rise above the rest.
Mohammedan sword was again unsheathed; for fresh in their memories were the terrible atrocities perpetrated during the former uprising, which was one long intermittent period of bloodshed and pillage lasting from 1861 to 1874, both parties, however, assenting to a cessation of hostilities each year during seedtime and harvest. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists.
Shirley scrutinized the interior of the machine, but there seemed nothing to distinguish it from the thousands of other piratical craft which pillage the public with the aid of the taximeter clock on the port beam! The Voice on the Wire
Clean up any grease, diesel fuel, hydraulic and lubricating oil accumulation and spillage immediately.
To confuse pillagers, exquisite bas-reliefs were laid face down to camouflage them among more ordinary blocks.
“No, by Saint Mary,” said another; “he is a follower of the arch-fiend and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who takes the style of Avenel — once a church-vassal, now a pillager of the church.” The Abbot
The evolution toward more resealable and recloseable packages that protect products from everything from spillage to spoilage is primarily driven by consumer demand.
Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Whenever you so much as mention the idea of an Obama presidency to one of them, they become almost aphasic with inchaoate fear -- it's like they believe that the day he's inaugurated a vast secret army of gigantic black men will be unleashed for a Satanic orgy of rape and pillage and murder directed particularly toward old white women. Poll: Obama Struggling With Older Women
She explained how any spillage should have drained into interceptor tanks to trap oil, but Environment Agency inspectors using dye discovered that oil was bypassing the safeguards and getting into the watercourse.
Notwithstanding this weak invention, Italy was still afflicted, Rome was again besieged, and the suburb of Classe, only three miles from Ravenna, was pillaged and occupied by the troops of a simple duke of Spoleto. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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?
Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
On entering the ruined city, and finding it pillaged, the Russians pillaging it too.
With her own eyes she had watched them work, their blond hair caked with dust and beer, their pink faces contorted with the joy of pillage.
I deplore the way that the US goes into countries and pillages them, stealing their assets.
She said: ‘They have raped and pillaged their own shores and now they have raped and pillaged ours.’
The downstream discharge at the Shabelle river is decreasing rapidly due to losses from seepage, evaporation, overbank spillage due to a low channel capacity, and water abstractions before the flow usually ends in the wetlands beyond Sablaale. Water profile of Somalia
It's a hook in the passenger side footwell, on which you can hang your bag of balti on a Friday night to avoid korma trauma in the car with curry spillage.
Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged.
Not giant refrigerators, transistorised and riveted hulks; bloated with imperialism, pillage, arrogance and eunuchoid science. Jodorowsky On His Unmade "Dune"
He is already wearing his uniform with full-sleeve painting apron on top to alleviate potential porridge spillages.
Fire crews swilled away a large fuel spillage.
He's got the right," said Picasso, a shameless pillager of African imagery, "he's a Negro. An Apostate Welcomed at Last
The lives of thousands of birds are in jeopardy as a result of the oil spillage.
Emergency and environmental services spent most of yesterday clearing up the spillage with low expansion foam before the vehicle could be righted using specialist lifting gear.
They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
They raided and pillaged, then headed back across the North Sea in their longships.
There was a bit of a leak from the tanker so we put absorbents down to soak up the spillage, of about half a litre, and put a barrier up around the vehicle.
She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly.
The banks, which provide credit and cash, have been looted, irrigation systems destroyed, road travel restricted, markets closed, warehouses and grain silos pillaged.
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Mercenaries had grown exponentially, and trade routes were risky, the merchant ships pillaged.
It shows the logic diagram of alarm design by analyzing reasons of current spillage and cable malfunction.
Wherever you spend your time, the most important thing to enquire about is the prospect of obtaining a seat after pupillage.
Ensure the concentrate and all spillages are contained within an area that drains back into the dip bath.
It would be a building within a building, which is terrific for minimizing sound spillage.
Biological cleaning solutions, being natural and generally harmless, are very safe to use meaning cleaning staff are protected during general use and in the event of accidental spillages
He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy. Reflections on Burke
They knew that they were breaking the law by carrying on a game of what is called pillage or brigandage at sea; but then they thought the law was all wrong, and that it was unlawful to enforce such restrictions, or put any penalty on freedom of action. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
At first they looted, burned and pillaged and then sailed off back to Denmark or Norway, heavily laden with gold and slaves.
The towns of Rostov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and Bogolyubovo, more than 150 miles northeast of Moscow (at the time a remote provincial village), were pillaged by the invaders but spared the occupation. Escape to Old Russia
In March, that brief summary of a bear, the raccoon, comes out of his den in the ledges, and leaves his sharp digitigrade track upon the snow, -- travelling not unfrequently in pairs, -- a lean, hungry couple, bent on pillage and plunder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
However, despite my outing of this pillage in June, I have yet to hear from any of the grave robber's fellow club-members that he has repented and replaced the stolen item.
The Parisian detachments marching to Lyons left a trail of pillaged and closed churches, and smouldering bonfires of ornaments, vestments, and holy pictures all along their route.
He did the Math and figured out that 10,000 barrels of oil (aka the spillage of oil in two days) could fill up a Victorian home in San Francisco. Original Design And Architecture: Modern Home in Spain by OmasC Architects
The oil spillage in the Gulf was of such magnitude that its effects will last for decades.
[113] The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
But now signs are emerging that the groups have begun to collude with each other to pillage the park's mineral wealth.
Because the fertilizer doesn't see the light of day from the time it is unloaded until it is loaded onto spreaders or tenders, both dust and spillage are virtually eliminated.
'_Mea culpa, mea culpa_,' he murmured wearily, then as he rose up with pale cheek a gleam of fire lit in his eye, for he would die rather than permit Saint Oswyn's shrine to be pillaged by the heathen. Border Ghost Stories
Surely, I thought, they would have something on hand to deal with the occasional oil spillage. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
Sturdy and well-finished, these ships were able to sail great distances, not just for pillage and plunder but also to seek new territories, markets and economic gains for the homeland.
The mid-16th century Reformation saw the Dissolution of the monasteries, the destruction of chantries and colleges, and the organised pillage of churches in the greatest act of privatisation England has ever seen.
Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection from pillage.
Hogarth, leaning on his elbows amongst the spillage stains, had his mouth open. TICKLED PINK
Concerned residents were told that the spillage was cleaned up as quickly as possible.
A bird plucked from an oil spillage has been returned to the wild next to a sewage plant.
But during this long pupillage he had perennially returned to his family's estate to work the vintages, watch and learn.
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?
The exercise successfully tested the procedures for dealing with a serious oil spillage.
She closed her lips together when swallowing and dabbed her mouth when necessary to clear any excessive spillage from her lips.
This forced the president to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism, and to promise to pump more funds into housing, education and job programs.
On such occasions, Vittore's accomplices were in waiting; and the unsuspecting stranger -- pillaged and alarmed, would return to the vettura penniless. A Love Story
Take your time, and avoid spillages of blood or body fluids.
Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
Toxic waste spillage has caused the inhabitants of a nearby spider farm to grow to enormous sizes.
The death penalty was prescribed for anyone caught in the act of pillage during a raid.
The organisation is responsible for education and training in pupillage, and continuing education for barristers.
Works of art were pillaged from many countries in the dark days of the Empire.
This forced him to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism, and to promise to pump more funds into housing, education and job programs.
I was very well assured that at Deal no less than ten guineas was required, and paid by the supercargo of an Indiaman, for carrying him on board two miles from the shore when she was just ready to sail; so that his necessity, as his pillager well understood, was absolute. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
The pillage was the first in the museum's 70-year history. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Wear nanotech garms (made from waterproof and stain-resistant nanoparticles) and the spillages glide off. The Sun
Pillages, desolations, and murders, were the inevitable consequence of these disorders; and that is so true, that in a road of six hundred leagues, during which the Greeks always marched irregularly, being neither escorted nor pursued by any great body of Persian troops, they lost four thousand men, either killed by peasants or by sickness. A Philosophical Dictionary
For decades, we have not wanted to know, because it sounded too much like the old colonialist claims of African "primitivism", used as an excuse by our ancestors to pillage the continent's resources. Johann Hari: Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women
Lombard Finance & Investments chief executive Michael Reeves "pillaged" a struggling firm to pay for a high-flying lifestyle ... .and some of his actions fell "well below those acceptable in business". Whoar.co.nz
Much of the spillage is not from oil drilling, but from smaller oil storage amounts or distribution facilities. Your Right Hand Thief
Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied.
The exercise successfully tested the procedures for dealing with a serious oil spillage.
If the flooring has spillage marks or deep scratches then get these attended to as quickly as possible.
The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money.
Nevertheless the fanatic lowlanders, propense to pillage and proselytizing, burned the Christian churches, massacred the infidels, and tortured the priests, until they provoked a blood feud of uncommon asperity. First footsteps in East Africa
This will be the first year of operation of the scheme providing for pupils to be paid a minimum wage during their pupillage.
Sweeping into Kievan Rus 'on small, swift horses, firing arrows of bone that pierced Russian armor, the hordes pillaged, massacred, and enslaved the Slavic population to such an extent that most Kievan principalities were knocked out of the history books for 200 years. Russia Is Finished
The invading troops were guilty of rape and pillage.
Most of the outlying towns and villages of the empire had already been pillaged and destroyed, mere husks of buildings remaining to mark where prosperous towns once were.
Device can spill water; install where spillage is not objectionable.
Be careful with large candles, as the potential for slopping a pool of burning hot spillage is greater.
But you still hung, burnt at the pyre, slashed the throats, raped, murdered and pillaged the "savages" or those who would not adopt Christianity or your Victorian-era puritanism, which is responsible and has influenced much of the homophobia in many countries in Asia and Africa. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
The surprise offensive triggered a predictable spree of pillage and rape in the lakeside city, and sparked a crisis in the fragile peace process across the country.
It was a system built on blood and arms, on clever balancing of different interest groups, on international anti-communist support of the Cold War and on the organized pillage of the state.
As the pillager wipes his filthy parts after the rape he kills his victims as well as my sons. Crime, culpability and punishment
We will not enter into space as employees of an astronautic administration or as “volunteers” of a state project, but as masters without slaves reviewing their domains: the entire universe pillaged for the workers councils. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame. The Abbot
His partner Urman was a Tatar built round and hard, with the broad smile of a successful pillager. Stalin's Ghost
Their attempt at grandeur is deeply ironic, however, since they fail to see what the comparison really implies: that the Americans, too, are conquerors and pillagers.
He ignored the resolution and continued to rape and pillage the country.
After a quick stop at the remnants of the cathedral in Fortrose, which suffered at the hands of Cromwell, who pillaged the red sandstone to build his fort in Inverness, we find ourselves in another realm of myths.
After a thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation, and attacks by armed forces, their caravan arrived, in October, at the vast oasis of Asben. Five Weeks in a Balloon
His tenure at the Ministry of the Navy was a complete failure and he presided over the cultural pillage of Italy and Egypt.
Yet traffic across the fishing grounds could be disruptive, and a spillage in the waters that circulate closer to the islands disastrous.
Three years later she qualified with an honours degree and wrote to Michael Mansfield about her pupillage.
Deficit - An excuse to do anything really out of order, eg: "Yes, I did spill red wine on your new white carpet, but what you must remember is that Labour left that carpet with a deficit of red wine; my spillage was the only responsible course of action. The Guardian World News
The death toll through famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan was certainly lower than in the famines that resulted from the British pillage of Ireland and India.
The pillage and firing of houses continued for several days, and a great quantity of furniture and objects of art were sent to Germany.
See what tidings that horn tells us of -- - to announce, I ween, some hership Pillage. and robbery which has been done upon my lands. Ivanhoe. A Romance
All the royal baggage and crown jewels and ordnance were captured and the Scots marauded the area from Boroughbridge to Beverley, demanding heavy fines or pillage.
During their forty-day pillage of Baghdad, the Mongols destroyed arguably the most advanced collection of human knowledge of all times.
A fuel spillage from the crash on the southbound carriageway resulted in tailbacks to Marks Tey.
In the early hours of each morning you had to tread with caution, because spillage was common and the air was often filled with a rather unsavoury perfume.
In well ventilated theatres it is unlikely that any colour change will occur unless accidental spillage should take place.
Diesel spill: Stockton fire fighters swilled away a quantity of diesel after a small spillage in Portrack Lane, yesterday morning.
Having succeeded so far the witness bent his attention to the office, when he found that a chest of drawers had been pillaged, and part of the contents packed up in a bundle that lay under the window looking into the street.
He rebuilt ruined churches, built others, he sent overseas to replace lost books and artifacts and all that he possibly could to heal the wounds of the past two centuries of Norse pillage.
Nero did not want anyone to know that he had been born in the village they were about to rape, pillage, and plunder their grimy guts out.
Another incident of spillage from the pipeline occurred close to the north-west corner of the field.
If the contents were under pressure, the spillage could be significant.
Newer: this weekend is all about … big and what great stuff is and what great stuff is there to write about tonight? so yeah, a web log is cheep therapy, not good writing. what else is new? it’s the same sort of brain spillage that has always filled my various diaries - I’m just more self-consious … because I do know that it’s public. that’s actually a weird part of the appeal. And what great stuff is - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson
That, surely, had been some time during his pupillage, when every penny had had to be made to do the work of four... A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
After pupillage (some six months) he decided that he would prefer work as a solicitor.
If all episodes of pillage were as easy to explain, the UN might not today be facing what is shaping up as the biggest scandal in its chequered history.
In the Lansd. MS., British Museum, No. 70., there is a letter from Mr. Richard Champernowne to Sir Robert Cecil, dated in 1592, referring to the discovery of some articles pillaged from the Spanish carrack, which had then recently been captured and taken into Dartmouth harbour. Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
They told me likewise that the natives inhabited this barren spot of _Al Kossir_, as being the nearest harbour on the coast of the Red Sea to the Nile, whence provisions were transported; and that the inhabitants were satisfied with slight matts instead of roofs to their houses because not troubled with rain, and the matts were a sufficient protection from the sun: but made their walls of stone to defend themselves against the malignity and rapaciousness of the _Badwis_, a perverse people, void of all goodness, who often suddenly assaulted the place in hope of plunder, and frequently pillaged the caravans coming across from the Nile with provisions and other commodities. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war.
It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing
Points to look for Extension top Allows larger cargoes of light materials like leaves, to be transported with much less spillage.
But during this long pupillage he had perennially returned to his family's estate to work the vintages, watch and learn.
The lives of thousands of birds are in jeopardy as a result of the oil spillage.
Leaked emails, seen by the Herald Sun, reveal several senior officers are worried they can't adequately police suburban beats because their staff are being "pillaged" for the NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
I find the soaked cotton balls are easier to contain and handle, you can pour more mixture on them when they start to dry and the chance of spillage is lower. Cockroaches
The building was evacuated as two teams of two fire fighters entered the building to clear up the spillage and ventilate the factory.
Had we all had drinks in our hands the waiter would have been soaked by spillage. and the word chipotle is getting on my nerves. Nightnurse Diary Entry
Pretending now to repent of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
Device can spill water; install where spillage is not objectionable.
It is designed specifically for fueling excavators, backhoes, and other diesel-engine vehicles in the field without spillage.
‘Everyone knows it's really hard to become a barrister,’ says Mark, who after a recent pupillage has just failed to secure a permanent job in chambers.
She also received a pupillage checklist, listing the requirements which had substantially to be met during the first six months of pupillage in order in qualify for the issue of a provisional practising certificate.
Overseeing the whole shebang is Big Chief Random Chaos, possibly not the most suitable candidate for a position requiring organisational skills, but the in-house hosts will be on hand to mop up any spillages. Clubs picks of the week
Three years later she qualified with an honours degree and wrote to Michael Mansfield about her pupillage.
The contractors sent out an oil spill response team with booms to contain the spillage and absorbent pads to soak the oil up.
Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered.
They forced the president to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, pump more funds into housing, education and job programs, and to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism.
They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes.
You are a rapist and a pillager and a thief of the working man's rights," it read, "and may you rot in hell. Motown Mechanic
Meanwhile, they trash every commandment of God, launch a new war every year, loot the treasury, neglect education, health and the environment and pillage the earth under a blanket of annihilatory weapons.
Finally, the third: people without religion, accustomed to pillage, to murder, to quarter themselves upon the peasants; a rascalry furious, fanatical, and swarming with prophetesses. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
His characters stay in a hotel annexed to the British Museum, so they're absorbed into its hoard of pillaged imperial trophies.
He pillaged national costumes - ao-dais from Vietnam, for example - and re-interpreted them.
The buildings were often pillaged in times of uncertainty - in some cases, totally demolished - and then rebuilt and restored over and over again.
Reports are just coming in of a major oil spillage in the North Sea.
Thus did they establish their factory in the port of Firando, where they have maintained themselves to this very day, taking the silks that they have pillaged from the Chinese, and certain cloth stuffs from Europa, and buying food and supplies for their forces in the Malucas and other islands of those regions. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing t
Prepare to lower the foc'sle and main pillage and plunder and put big hickeys on all the fair damsels! Arrrr Ye Slimey Bilge Rats, 'Tis Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Taxes in turn became tribute, or protection money, paid to a local warlord to prevent lands from being pillaged.
The West has raped and pillaged much of the rest of the world in the name of progress and living in comfort, but that can't go on indefinitely.
The hundreds of millions of dollars being reaped from this pillage, officials say, are going to some of Indonesia's top serving or retired military officers.
Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
This tank was self-sealing, meaning that the tank was built out of a rubberized substance that would allow a bullet to pass through without sparking and then close the entry and exit holes to prevent spillage.
In the early hours of each morning you had to tread with caution, because spillage was common and the air was often filled with a rather unsavoury perfume.
If a political agreement fails, then troops should be withdrawn to border areas to try to contain the spillage from the civil war into the region. Leaving Iraq
Outstanding Italian humanists of that epoch visited Byzantium in order to learn Greek and to buy old manuscripts, saved from pillages, conflagrations, and devastation of the invaded country.
This area was patrolled by German mercenaries who went on a rampage of pillage and terrorising the local population.
No matter how much you rape and pillage us and invade our land we will always be here.
`I think earlier he wheeled his bin over a spillage of coke or coal -- probably dropped by a truck. COVER STORY
In a series of attacks starting in 1748 until 1761, Abdali would not only pillage and loot Delhi, he also cleaned out Mathura, Kashmir and cities in Panjab.
Here are some more pix. complimenting neighbors carex spillage ... The perennial that enhances all others « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
All the stray pellets - which mariners call sweepings or spillage - had to be cleaned out and dumped.
The Vikings raped and pillaged all along the coast.
An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one.
Living beings were about to appear, pillagers of tombs, no doubt, come to unswathe them all! Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
* _ "Le pillage a ete porte a son comble -- les militaires au lieu de songer a ce qu'ils avoient a faire, n'ont pense qu'a remplir leurs sacs, et a voir se perpetuer une guerre aussi avantageuse a leur interet -- beaucoup de simples soldats ont acquis cinquante mille francs et plus; on en a vu couverts de bijoux, et faisant dans tous les genres des depenses d'une produgaloite, monstreuse. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
A soup bowl with a flared rim can help prevent spillages.
Mrs. Douaoui says one French journalist who she prefers not to mention by name wrote at the top of his of his obituary "the pillager of Africa is dead. Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell
Diesel spill: Stockton fire fighters swilled away a quantity of diesel after a small spillage in Portrack Lane, yesterday morning.
-- There, in Bas-Rhin, near Fort Louis, twenty houses of the aristocrats are pillaged. The French Revolution - Volume 1
Examination by sight alone revealed spillage.
As well as the igniting of oil wells, there was enormous spillage of oil into the Gulf.
I wish more people would give it the necessary chance it needs, rather than stupidly reading the title expecting another Saw offshoot and then complaining ten minutes in that there hasn't been enough spillage of bodily fluids seriously, clear your mind of expectations unless you want to be just another consumer bitch. Archive 2008-02-01
In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants.
We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
European countries raped and pillaged the continent, destroying the social fabric and leaving a metaphorical smoking hole behind.
And the mujik related to Michael Strogoff the different incidents of the struggle which he had witnessed — the attack upon the ferry by the Tartar boats, the pillage of the tarantass, and the massacre of the boatmen. Michael Strogoff
Goblin wolf riders raid and pillage far afield, while outriders scour the surrounding countryside for any sign of enemy armies.
There is a lot of pillage and plunder going on at some of our rural beaches, and we have to congratulate the officers of the Ministry of Fisheries on their fine work in monitoring our fisheries.
Put the bottle in a plastic bag in case of spillage.

How To Use Pillage In A Sentence

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