Sentence examples for pillage into from inspiring English sources

He made no attempt to regain these territories but instead formed an alliance with the Aetolian League, which made unsuccessful raids of pillage into the Peloponnese.

The Governor announced a ten-point "indictment," which he said called for sending the party of "privilege and pillage" into political oblivion after November.

While their very French approach to the theft had turned pillage into a party, it also made it fairly easy to recover the gems.

The Scottish queen Mary of Guelders provided Margaret with support and a Scottish army pillaged into southern England.

Margaret gained the support of the Scottish queen Mary of Guelders, and with a Scottish army she pillaged into southern England.

To readers who may say China's efforts to gather foreign technology are "normal business practice," they write: "It is neither 'normal' nor 'business,' but a state-sponsored assault on foreign invention that includes every dodge and malpractice up to and including espionage — then goes beyond espionage through a Gulag of 'transfer centers' that ensure the pillage goes into products".

After crossing into Asia Minor, the crusaders split up and began to pillage the countryside, wandering into Seljuq territory around Nicaea.

The contrast between planting to make the earth flower and digging to pillage its secrets extends into the book's second part.

He described "terrible tortures, wholesale expulsions and deportations from one end of the Empire to the other accompanied by frequent instances of rape, pillage and murder, turning into massacre".

When the late Hugo Chávez pressed a copy of Galeano's 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent into the hands of Barack Obama before the world's press in 2009, it leapt from 54,295th on Amazon's rankings to second in just a day.

In Bossangoa since 14 February, the population, including at displacement sites, now has access to drinking water through the national water company, which was re-established with help from UNICEF after it was pillaged in September 2013 and fell into disrepair.