Sentence examples for in plunder of from inspiring English sources

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The Soviet forces present engaged in plunder of the former eastern territories of Germany which were being transferred to Poland, stripping it of valuable industrial equipment, infrastructure and factories and sending them to the Soviet Union.

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Tanzanian politicians are calling for the resignation of the prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, after a government report implicated him in an energy scandal that resulted in the plunder of more than $120m£76.5m5m) from the country's central bank.

The difficulty for professors is that Mr. Clinton's most recent misdeeds—the giddy exercises in plunder, the whiff of simony, of an apparent buying and selling of presidential absolution—are difficult to justify in terms of purely American precedents.

But the structural crisis that could kill capitalism lies beyond this: in the plunder of society's wealth by oligarchs; the plunder of the public domain by privatisation and monopoly power – plus rampant corruption and anarchy replacing geostrategic order.

A bronze column in the shape of intertwined snakes (the Serpent column) was created from melted-down Persian weapons, acquired in the plunder of the Persian camp, and was erected at Delphi.

The government denied that its army was involved in the organized plunder of resources in Congo after a United Nations report blamed all parties in the civil war there for for looting minerals.

Put another way, given the nature of the hierarchy, Mr. Schultz's ambition came with a certain incentive to deal in plunder, the stock in trade of Mr. Tokeley-Parry.

Years earlier the same gallery was found to have engaged in a conflict of interest in plundering the estate of Mark Rothko.

Increasingly, the antiquities trade was being accused of illicitly trafficking in plunder.

Some Christians attacked and destroyed temples, as in the plundering of the Serapeum and other temples in Alexandria in AD 391 or 392.

He hit seven sixes, equalling the previous England record in a T20 match set in Hobart in January by Ravi Bopara, who also played a significant part in the plundering of 81 off the last five overs here.

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