Sentence examples for foreign pirates from inspiring English sources

Foreign pirates were another hazard, and the Dutch briefly captured São Tomé in 1641, only to be expelled seven years later.

Trouble followed as both English and foreign pirates and privateers – including other members of the Marisco family – took control of the island for short periods.

But the way Protect IP tries to cut off foreign pirates' access to resources within the U.S. mimics many of the Chinese government's methods.

But few of those countries had the facilities much less the inclination to deal with the legal headaches related to mass influxes of foreign pirates, leading to a robust rhetoric advocating the return of Somali pirates to a Somali state for justice.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), now before America's Congress, is the latest of many recent attempts to defend property rights on the internet.The bill aims to cut off Americans' access to foreign pirate websites by squeezing intermediaries.

Now, however, two bills, broadly supported on both sides of the political aisle, aim to cut off the oxygen for foreign pirate sites by taking aim at American search engines like Google and Yahoo, payment processors like PayPal and ad servers that allow the pirates to function.

Many of the processors are what Abidin, who runs Muncar's fish market, calls "home industries": fishermen's wives salting their husband's catch, for instance.Meanwhile, as small Indonesian vessels work inshore, well-funded foreign pirate fleets, often sailing under flags of convenience, plunder Indonesian fisheries further offshore.

Congress should come up with a different mechanism for going after foreign pirate sites or else kill the bills entirely.

And as against all the others – foreigners, foreign corporations, NGOs, missionaries and pirates – who are providing the services that have kept the population alive (in a hotchpotch of well-meaning outreach and felonious intent), it is no wonder that Jean captured the hearts and hopes of a nation so in need of spiritual resurrection.

TWO years ago Somalia's weak transitional government agreed to let foreign navies chase pirates into its territorial waters.

The Kenyan foreign minister estimates pirates received $150m in ransom payments in 2009.