Sentence examples for had pillaged from inspiring English sources

He read about the Zapatistas, and about how the Spanish had pillaged Latin America.

Germany itself had pillaged the countries it had occupied of their finest pieces, and, it was argued, deserved no sympathy.

The Congolese army based nearby arrived hours after the LRA had pillaged the village and returned to the bush.

United Nations officials said that several waves of looters had pillaged Abyei and that there was even a market in town now for looted goods.

Still, Mr. Sumaidy said he was "troubled" that the police had pillaged Mr. Chalabi's headquarters, and he said he personally visited the building after hearing the reports.

Human Rights Watch asserted in December that Russian troops had pillaged the village of Alkhan-Yurt in Chechnya and killed civilians there.

The oil fields cannot produce petrol because looters have pillaged the water-pumping installations.

Mobutu has pillaged his country and deposited the proceeds in Swiss accounts.

His undisciplined soldiers have pillaged government ministries, making it hard for civil servants to get back to work.

It was produced at the Sheffield Crucible in 1980, where the Yorkshire Post commended the playwright for having "pillaged the white man's theatre knowledgedly [sic]".

The rebels under Mr. Lubanga's command were known to have pillaged, raped and killed many civilians in enemy villages, but prosecutors said when he was handed to The Hague in 2006 that the best evidence they had was about child recruiting.