Sentence examples for by banditry from inspiring English sources

But when the empire collapsed, Georgia descended into a near-failed state: dysfunctional and disfigured by banditry and ethnic conflict.

In the regions beyond, the authority of the state is challenged by banditry and tribal warlords and religious pretenders.

The shift, officials said, may be necessary because of the lingering difficulties in rebuilding the country and establishing law and order in a nation still wracked by banditry, warlords and renegade Taliban fighters.

But as most of its original leaders have been killed or captured, Abu Sayyaf and its new recruits are said to be motivated less by radical Islamist ideology than by banditry, especially the lucrative kidnappings for ransom for which it has become known.

"The only way he can maintain control is by such banditry".

The tourists, however, did not, scared away by reports of banditry.

He said security was threatened by "fighting and banditry," particularly in and around Mazer-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Kandahar.

Chechnya, consumed by war and banditry since 1994, has been an intractable problem for Mr. Putin, fueling terrorism in Moscow, regional disorder and allegations of Russian brutality.

Like the outlaws he read about in dime novels who were forced into banditry by some perceived injustice, Tucker says that "the legend of Forrest Tucker" began that morning when he was unfairly sent away for only a minor theft.

The front lines in a war that drew in several African nations have fallen quiet, allowing the United Nations to send in 2,400 troops and unarmed observers, but fighting and banditry by the armies' militia allies continue to ravage eastern Congo.

1938 Lepers Seized by Officers TOKIO — Osaka police are holding in a special prison forty-three Corean lepers, who, until their capture, committed wholesale banditry by threatening victims with contact with their own leprous flesh to give them the disease unless loot was turned over to them.