Sentence examples for outright looting from inspiring English sources
Could it be that the market for "top talent" is rigged by professional cartels, boardroom stitch-ups and the "ancient arts of carve-up, scam and outright looting"?
The serious plunder began, however, once he took office: crooked public contracts, outright looting, and uncoöperative cops and cabinet ministers sacked.
Or are they constrained and distorted in various ways – by monopoly power, by professional cartels to keep wages high, by government regulation, by stitch-ups in the boardroom, by undetected market abuse, and by outright looting?
Accountants are trying to learn whether her money was moved into overly risky investment vehicles, whether any business deals need to be undone and whether her assets were outright looted.
[According to Garba (2006]), the failure is due to the lack of clearly defined policies with proper guidelines for poverty alleviation, and the policies suffered from political instability, interference and macroeconomic dislocations, as well as lack of continuity, and are riddled with political deception, outright kleptomania and distasteful looting.
And since these artworks were already owned, his requisitioning required special means- taxing, looting, and outright theft.
This barring of access may be blatant: attacking and killing aid workers, looting their supplies, outright denying safe passage, or it may be more subtle, coming in the form of burdensome bureaucratic measures.
The indictment charged that through "fraud and outright intimidation, Mr. Wittig and Mr. Lake devised a scheme to loot the company of tens of millions of dollars," Mr. Comey said.
What they found was that gamers tending toward "problem gambling" habits (i.e. spending or behavior that negatively affects everyday life and relationships) spent considerably more on loot boxes than normal gamers — yet that wasn't the case for general microtransactions like outright buying an in-game item or currency.
Many rejected it outright.
