Sentence examples for illicit digging from inspiring English sources

"Illicit digging, if anything, is increasing," says Osmund Bopearachchi, director of CNRS's archaeological research center in Paris.

Renata Holod, a curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, said many ancient sites in Iraq and elsewhere now look like "a moonscape" because of all the illicit digging.

At some remote and poorly guarded dig sites, Dr. McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago wrote recently, illicit digging in most cases started as an attempt simply to find something to sell to put food on the table.

Small scale illicit digging in these places and elsewhere has always been a problem, but now no-one is guarding them at all.

"If one of the major clients for antiquities not only has to withdraw from the market but return things, it will put the brakes on the illicit digging in Italy". Times staff writer Tracy Wilkinson contributed to this report.

The illicit "sport" of digging badgers and baiting them with dogs is not much covered in literature, apart from a brilliant poem by John Clare in the 1830s and a brutal 20th-century account by a jaded, complicit Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter.

If the stuff was acquired in dubious circumstances a phrase stretched to cover everything from illicit archaeological digs to war-time loot to the idols of heathen gods handed over to missionaries by their converts then it should go back to where it came from, forthwith.

Plum gives that voice, articulating the word "fat" with relish: "It had the same thrust as fuck and the same power an illicit f-word, the top teeth digging into the bottom lip, spewing the single syllable".As a social commentary, "Dietland" is no shrill tirade.

Michael K Williams will be digging into the operation of illicit economies in Black Market.

Michael K Williams goes digging into the operation of illicit economies in Black Market.

One of our shows is BLACK MARKET, which follows Michael K Williams digging into the operation of illicit economies around the world.