Sentence examples for pillaging in from inspiring English sources

Yet Koster, during one of his lengthy appearances before the Peers commission, calmly reported, "We had, I thought, a very strong policy against burning and pillaging in villages.

(Catherine Rampell) 'Fuenteovejuna' Sometimes, when your boss starts raping and pillaging in the office, the grunts just have to beat him to death with a calculator.

Sometimes, when the boss starts raping and pillaging in the office, the grunts just have to beat him to death with a calculator.

During similar pro-democracy uprisings in Libya and Egypt, museums were looted and historical sites, and Syria's official news agency has already reported pillaging in the ancient city of Apamea in the west.

But you never shared a goody-laden package from home or left any food in your locker; in military dorms, pilfering was encouraged as a form of preparation for pillaging in future wars.

The Rwandan, Désiré Munyaneza, 42, a Hutu and a son of a prominent businessman, was accused of mass murders, rape and pillaging in the Butare region of the small central African nation.

Adversity is nothing new to La Tour d'Argent, which was pillaged in 1789 during the French Revolution.

You can watch the sparrows fall and continents pillaged in your name.

Archaeological looting is common throughout the world, but the pillage in Iraq and Syria is singular in its invasiveness.

It has also made money from smuggling raw materials pillaged in Syria as well as priceless antiquities from archeological digs.

More than two million people were killed and government-sponsored militias, similar to those that raped and pillaged in Darfur, swept across the region, razing villages and massacring civilians.