Sentence examples for in pillage from inspiring English sources
The sacks of Antioch (1098) and Constantinople (1204) resulted in pillage of embroideries, which (possibly as "conscience" gifts) were afterward presented to the church.
That was before the Reformation and the beginning of what would become the greatest seaborne empire ever known, engaged from the start, in pillage, piracy and slavery dressed up in patriotic colours.
The ICRC (2006) Business and International Humanitarian Law guidance document highlights the criminal responsibility of all those involved in pillage through forced displacement.
4 By these means he soon grew powerful and became master of the sea off Italy, so that he made descents upon its harbours, towed away the vessels, and engaged in pillage.
The fundamental contribution of the Morea scientific expedition was in effect its quasi-disinterest in pillage and treasure hunting.
They are interested in pillaging the country".
The young emperor dreamed of rebuilding Alexander's empire but succeeded only in pillaging Media and destroying the hypogea of the Arsacid kings at Arbela.
When American actress April Winchell was between jobs in 2009, she set up a blog called Regretsy, which took great delight in pillaging Etsy for its "craftcidents".
She also said information presented to the committee might, if released, "become a road map for looters" interested in pillaging sites.
Citing Britain's "history in pillaging Iranian artefacts", these recent thefts have now been blamed on "the secret hand of England".
This bedraggled city's decay poses no theological conundrum of the sort that troubled Darwin, but it does pose worrisome questions about the viability of democracy in jurisdictions where big government and its unionized employees collaborate in pillaging taxpayers.
