The phrase "plunder of resources" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the violent seizure or looting of resources, typically those of a foreign country or people. For example, "Throughout history, many warring nations have been guilty of plundering resources from their enemies."
The government denied that its army was involved in the organized plunder of resources in Congo after a United Nations report blamed all parties in the civil war there for for looting minerals.
Kinshasa is to seek legal redress from Rwanda as well even though the government in Kigali did not recognise the court A UN report in 2001 found that Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda intervened to secure their borders but later the plunder of resources became a reason to stay.
In this vein, Levidow [55] outlines how the EU can continue "its global plunder of resources" because it pursues global leadership for sustainable biofuels.
British universities, plundered of resources by the bankers and financiers they educated, are not best served by a bunch of prima donnas jumping ship and creaming off the bright and loaded.
Economic inefficiency, largely due to corruption inside state enterprises, including the wholesale plunder of natural resources, has caused a range of problems for ordinary Vietnamese, from inflation to high interest rates.
From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating," said Ban in a statement for the UN's International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict on Thursday.
A United Nations panel said this week that the plunder of natural resources in Congo was continuing unabated and recommended a ban on exports of gold, copper, diamonds, cobalt, timber, coffee and other commodities from rebel-held areas of the central African nation.
Corruption in these elite networks far transcends the unethical behavior of the typical tax avoiders, as it involves the abuse of power to accumulate power and assets, often via the direct plunder of public resources or large-scale bribery.
But the plundering of natural resources was having a discernible effect on the land.
Qwabe continued: "So called 'British institutions' were built (and have continued to be sustained) on the colonial plunders of MY resources, and on the labour of MY people who were enslaved.
Vast international conglomerates are often faced with allegations that they abet the plundering of natural resources, usually in league with local officials and almost always to the detriment of indigenous communities.
