Sentence examples for systematic looting of from inspiring English sources

Buhari appears determined to halt the systematic looting of Nigeria.

It has since been fed by systematic looting of ancient sites, particularly in southern Iraq.

The clerics, clad in black robes and white turbans, were accompanied by entourages of local Iraqis who had engaged in an almost systematic looting of the facilities.

Four of their predecessors had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in what prosecutors claim was a plan for the "systematic looting" of public funds.

The State Department reported that soldiers not only engaged in the systematic looting of small, easily transportable goods, but even shipped entire buildings for scrap to be sold abroad.

"So what do they call the millions of documents at higher levels of classification?" Dr. Lee's lawyers said the new development makes their client's actions seem less like the systematic looting of the nation's top nuclear secrets, as the government contends, and more like a research misdemeanor, as the defense has argued.

Garner told me that while he had expected Iraqis to loot the symbols of the old regime, like Hussein's palaces, he had been utterly unprepared for the systematic looting and destruction of practically every public building in Baghdad.

Indeed, it's possible that the highly publicized destruction of archeological sites in Syria and Iraq by Islamic State was nothing more than a cover for the systematic looting and sale of artifacts from these archeological remains.

Although the initial disturbances in Tottenham were recognisable in their origins and development when compared with previous riots on the mainland, the following days saw evidence of a type of systematic looting that did not appear to fit previous experience.

Although Mr. Burius's colleagues were sometimes curious about how he could afford Armani suits, silk ties, Cuban Cohibas and a Mercedes, they were astonished to learn of his systematic looting, according to press reports in Sweden.

The failure of American forces to stop the systematic looting in the week after the fall of Baghdad left a vacuum that was filled by hastily improvised militias organized by the Shiite religious council, the Hawza.