Sentence examples for pillager from inspiring English sources

Will one great state pillager of electronic secrets have the ultimate say in whether the leaker is extradited back to face the justice of another great state cyber-intruder?

Of course, leave it to the Internet — that pillager of the publishing industry — to turn typos into profit.

If his enemy is the bourgeoisie, he casts himself as a semioclast, a pillager of their materialist sign system.

It overlooked the fact that the most effective pillager in the tournament, Australia's David Pocock, played at No8, and Clifford has played in all three back-row positions for Harlequins since making his debut in November 2012.

But for Navjot Singh Sidhu, the eccentric Sardar who went from "strokeless wonder" to pillager of spin, they all failed miserably.

He is a killer, arguably a rapist, certainly a pillager.

By the 13th century, the place was completely abandoned, prey to pillagers, many of its proudly carved stones burned into lime.

He points out that even before the war, Iraqi engineers "held together the system with rubber bands and bandaids".The CPA and the Iraqi Electricity Commission are bringing in new equipment to patch up some installations, even as other facilities are stripped away by pillagers.

Fierce warriors, pillagers and traders, the Vikings sacked Paris in 861, conquered much of England and northern France, settled Iceland and Greenland, discovered America and even helped to raid Baghdad.That bloody projection of military might overseas makes today's Nordic do-gooding look feeble.

The pillagers returned 20 minutes later, after the helicopters took off.Jon Anderson, an American major stationed near the celebrated site of Ur, describes efforts taken during the fighting around Ur's ziggurat, to prevent vandalism "that could have been blamed on the coalition".

The English have also absorbed and Anglicized non-English peoples, from Scandinavian pillagers and Norman conquerors to Latin church leaders.