Sentence examples for pirating activities from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, war had broken out with Venice (1615 17) because of the pirating activities of Serb refugees (Uskoken) established on the Croatian coast.

Latterly, it became a base for the MacLeod of Lewis's pirating activities prior to Calum Garbh's investiture there.

In cooperation with maritime domain stakeholders, we have therefore developed AgentC, a data-driven agent-based simulation model of maritime traffic that explicitly models pirate activity and piracy countermeasures.

Despite the aforementioned New York Ninja Scare, attacks against innocent people by ninjas don't hold a candle to pirate activity – most of which includes direct attacks on innocent civilians, merchants, and, occasionally, other pirates.

Third, the United States should consider imposing a naval blockade on the major ports which are supporting the pirate activities.

Hastings also suppressed pirate activities off the west coast of India and in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.

But it may be harder to stop laundering the money than to curb the piracy itself.* Pirate Trails: Tracking the Illicit Financial Flows from Pirate Activities off the Horn of Africa.

Though England turned a blind eye to the pirates' activities for a while, it couldn't afford to imperil trade with India, and so, at the end of the seventeenth century, it sent men-of-war to suppress the Indian Ocean pirates.

Puntland's leaders have frequently promised to curb the pirates' activities, but with little apparent success.

In 2008, Henderson interpreted the growing pirate activities at the Gulf of Aden as additional support, pointing out that Somalia has "the highest number of pirates and the lowest carbon emissions of any country".

For most of the past six years it has been the centre of pirate activity.