Sentence examples for Ripe for plunder from inspiring English sources
UNITED NATIONS — More than half of the world's oceans belong to no one, which often makes their riches ripe for plunder.
The Last King of Scotland is a riveting satire of white Europe's horrified fascination with Africa as a Conradian heart of darkness, which is nevertheless ripe for plunder for a sufficiently cocksure adventurer.
These people see public spending on education not as an investment in our future, but as a treasure chest ripe for plunder.
A landbase rich in minerals and bristling with stands of towering cedar, hemlock and Sitka spruce, the Clayoquot Sound territory of the Tla'o'qui'aht and four other First Nations within the wider Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council is a treasure chest ripe for plunder by a resource-hungry world.
In Central and South America European explorers found dense populations ripe for plundering.
This means that every musical style, from a micro-genre found in Kentucky for a week in 1982 to punk, is ripe for plundering.
The not so ancient back-catalogue of the Bush, the Court, Paines Plough, Hampstead are all ripe for plundering and I can't wait to see the results.
Infrastructure is ripe for plundering by corrupt officials.
The theory that Liverpool are ripe for the plunder, having lost five of their last six matches, is unlikely to stand close inspection once the champions find themselves playing for pride as well as points.
But he also perceived that tribal fetish worship, the past and its splendors, the Orient and its mysteries, the art world and its sacrileges, the underground, the flea market, the souk, the steppes, and the gay demimonde were all ripe for creative plunder.
He draws arbitrarily from Brian Wilson's life, basing about two-thirds of his story on fact, embroidering and complicating other real-life incidents for no apparent reason and overlooking the one aspect of Brian Wilson's history ripe for literary plunder - the irony of his band's apple-pie image, given its sordid private affairs.
