Sentence examples for looting against from inspiring English sources

"Do you remember, Radomir," Mr. Milosevic began, asking his former aide to recall orders to protect civilians during the 1999 Kosovo war, orders against burning down houses, against looting, against expelling ethnic Albanians from their villages, orders to treat prisoners decently.

Ottoman reforms provoked an episode of rioting and protest accompanied by violence and looting directed against Aleppo's Christian community in 1850; Ottoman control, however, was soon restored.

Hundreds of people rushed in to savor the moment, trampling across forbidden ground, reclaiming two square miles of their city during an edgy stampede of joyful looting set against the sounds of machine-gun fire and explosions.

More than 2,000 National Guard troops have since been deployed in the area in a bid to prevent rioting and looting, demonstrations against the decision taken in Ferguson, Missouri, swelled from Los Angeles to Washington.

According to SANA, the state news agency, the Foreign Ministry said, "Armed terrorist groups in the city carried out operations of killing and terrorizing against the innocent citizens and acts of looting and vandalism against public and private properties and shops".

It said that the armed groups had carried out "killing and terrorizing against the innocent citizens, and acts of looting and vandalism against public and private properties and shops".

National Guardsmen in Humvees were posted all around the neighborhood to protect against looting.

On his arrival, local officials asked for more troops to guard against looting.

The Brazilian military advised that aid convoys should add security to guard against looting.

But they failed to guard against looting: after a brief burst of lawlessness, 140 people were arrested.

National Guard troops patrolled the crippled neighborhoods, guarding against looting and shooing away curiosity seekers taking photos with their cellphones.