They seem to strike with increasing impunity, grabbing everything from sailing yachts to oil tankers.
Meanwhile, the NATO-facilitated situation on the ground in Libya has worsened, with extremists operating with increasing impunity.
Since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Israeli settler groups in Hebron have acted with increasing impunity in a city with an overwhelming Palestinian majority.
United States and Colombia counterdrug officials have told The A.P. that without a D.E.A. presence in Bolivia, drug traffickers from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere have been operating with increasing impunity there.
India, at 140, is "at its lowest since 2002 because of increasing impunity for violence against journalists and because Internet censorship continues to grow".
And the harder Steyn ran in and the faster he bowled the more the adrenaline seemed to pump through Pietersen and, with increasing impunity, the harder the ball was dispatched.
In recent decades, as Lane must surely know, private-sector employers confronting the efforts of their employees to unionize have violated the law with complete and increasing impunity in their usually successful efforts to thwart their workers' wishes.
Wary of Islamists' rising influence and concerned about what they say is the increasing impunity of Islah leaders, they portray him as a religious warlord who is promoting tribalism instead of the rule of law.
Beheadings by the Taliban are not new, but they have not been seen for a while, and five such gruesome deaths in a few days suggest that the Taliban may be operating with increasing impunity in some regions.
Despite calls to abolish the conventions by the past and present Conservative leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron among others, they remain an essential bulwark against the bullying tactics of the powerful, and a poignant index of the increasing impunity of the neo-colonial project.
