Sentence examples for pillaged on from inspiring English sources

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Then after all that was done successfully, they were pillaged on the royalty end by a greedy supply/distribution chain which gave them only a teeny percentage of the profits.

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It is only because greedy western investors have told their fund managers to rape and pillage on their behalf to fund an otherwise unaffordable retirement.

It comes when looting and pillaging on both sides of the border threaten to unravel a delicate peace deal in Ivory Coast and unnerve a Liberian government under growing pressure from its own insurgents.

The mutineers then dispersed to their home villages, pillaging on the way; they failed to spread the insurrection to neighbouring garrisons.

They liberated Henry after defeating the Yorkist army of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, in the Second Battle of St Albans, and continued pillaging on their way to London.

On 30 December 1460, Percy led the central "battle" or section of the victorious Lancastrian army at the Battle of Wakefield, following which, the army marched south, pillaging on the road to London.

After a few successes (e.g., Thermopylae, mid-August 480 bce), Xerxes occupied Attica and pillaged Athens on September 21, but on September 29, at Salamis, a naval battle that he had initiated turned into a defeat.

In the evening, marauding gangs pillaged shops on the northern fringes of the coastal city.

In his book Off Camera, Koppel says the house "dates back at least to 1765" -- and that it is his belief that the original structure "was pillaged and set on fire by a pirate named Ingels".

As this column moved on, the men plundered and pillaged along the way, predictably drawing angered Patriots to take up arms.

The privateers were then granted one hour of free pillaging on Kent before Surcouf restored order; however, the female passengers were strictly protected and sentries were placed in front of their apartments.

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