How To Use Pillaging In A Sentence
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Corruption trials for pillaging the state will probably happen.
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During the revolution, when the peasants of all the adjoining estates violently dispossessed their landlords of their property; when every adjoining chateau exhibited a scene of desolation and ruin; the peasants of this estate were remarkable for their moderate and steady conduct; so far from themselves pillaging their seigneur, they formed a league for his defence "-- Ils l'ont soutenùs," as they themselves expressed it -- _and he continued throughout, and is now in the quiet possession of his great estate_.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed.
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Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares.
Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
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It bears the scars of various sackings and pillagings - but, mysteriously, much of the building was buried under earth and remained untouched.
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They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings, (which were without any party-wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as an happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials of their neighbor's house.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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Notice that they're not only pillaging resources these days, but they're investing.
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No need here to recount the sorry story of Referendum C. If Ref C was a drunk running a tab, pillaging Pinnacol would be a smash-and-grab from the plate glass of the liquor store.
Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize It « View From a Height
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The bandicoot is a species of marsupial animal which could outwit the European fox, and give him lessons in pillaging poultry yards.
In Search of the Castaways
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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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Soldiers went on a rampage, pillaging stores and shooting.
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For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings.
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Outrage at what they saw as the pillaging of their resources led many Latin countries to nationalise oil firms.
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The lot of them are now pillaging the Professor's cellar and grumbling about the grumpy bastard who shares their lives.
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He is a man who, when he was pillaging for the Federal government, reduced the term Public Service to an oxymoron.
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How unjust to do so by pillaging the church, an institution that was neither responsible for contracting the debt nor had benefited from the deficit expenditures.
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This is ‘property as theft’ in its purest form - the biopirates are stealing from the commons, not to mention pillaging people's cultural heritage.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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These arrangements, based on the systematic financial raping, plundering, and pillaging of companies like GM by the labor unions through the negotiating of employee wages that are two thirds higher than the average wage, are now known as the scorned "Cadillac plans.
Canada Free Press
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A spokeswoman for the station said: ‘The general notion is of Vikings with horned helmets raping and pillaging but that is not really true.’
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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
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This would ensure that the massive pillaging of the fiscus which is currently taking place would be checked before it jeapordises the transition process.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
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Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares
Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
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We're supposed to believe that pillaging the planet is part of an inevitable progression.
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During the sacking of the houses of the local aristocracy, pillaging was sufficiently controlled for some of the furnishings to be given to the poor, to deflect accusations of theft.
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On entering the ruined city, and finding it pillaged, the Russians pillaging it too.
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They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings (which were without any party wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as a happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials, of their neighbour's house.
Political Pamphlets
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The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business.
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Sherman marched from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, burning and pillaging every city in his path, leaving only destruction in his wake.
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From the 16th century on, Turkmen raiders on horseback preyed on passing caravans, pillaging and taking prisoners for the slave trade.
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Our people have had to submit to its wishes every year to keep it from setting fire to our lands, stealing my people, pillaging their houses as well as a list of other horrible things.
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One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home.
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No need here to recount the sorry story of Referendum C. If Ref C was a drunk running a tab, pillaging Pinnacol would be a smash-and-grab from the plate glass of the liquor store.
Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize It « View From a Height
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Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging.
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You want people to buy your stuff instead of just pillaging it off the Net?
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Mobutu was later accused of pillaging the mineral resources there, lining up his pockets and those of his closest colleagues.