8d5ff47e-2274-461a-82af-081a6ea0e85d talkingice have been talking up the dangers presented by the forthcoming G20 protests in London, creating fears of widespread disruption and violence caused by hordes of marauding anarchists hell-bent on destroying our society.
An incident recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes how, in AD 874, a marauding band of Vikings ravaged the Chichester countryside, "and the citizens put them to flight, and killed many hundreds of them".
There are stories about them marauding around the Commons, colonising the bars, being "chippy and confrontational", feasting on chips and sweets (Mhairi Black), taking forbidden selfies at the PM's dispatch box (you know who you are, Roger Mullin) and generally whooping it up.
To the Orthodox, the pope was making a welcome act of atonement for the misdeeds of 1204 by handing over the bones of two eastern saints that were removed by marauding western Christians.
Pirates are not marauding egotists who prize only bullion and rum, argue the two French professors; they are in fact heroic risk-takers who defy the excesses of capitalism and the tentacles of state control.
His soldiers are meanwhile marauding through Bukavu's more modest residences, helping themselves to loot.
The crisis, and the need for ministers to dodge marauding protesters, have meant that it is doing little governing, just when Thailand's exports are crumbling, its vital tourist trade faces collapse and unemployment looks set to soar.
A MONUMENT to imperialist plunder, the home-away-from-home of the Elgin marbles, a showcase of booty looted from the four corners of the earth by gangs of marauding dead white gentlemen?
In the past, the Americans lacked the numbers to garrison Sunni districts properly, letting al-Qaeda intimidate the locals and act as their protectors against marauding Shia militias.
In Darfur, marauding militias prey on women and children collecting firewood, food or animal fodder outside refugee camps.
In the south, the Mfecane, a massive movement of fleeing and marauding peoples, wiped out hundreds of other small communities and produced the Zulu empire.
