Sentence examples for their piracy from inspiring English sources

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Their piracy and mutiny were the result of their natural right to self defense.

Hatred of the Spanish and Portuguese who attacked North Africa between 1505 and 1511 encouraged Khiḍr and his brother ʿArūj to intensify their piracy.

Movie pirates are also more likely to cut down their piracy if they feel they are harming the industry compared with people who illegally download music, according to Cox and fellow Portsmouth University economist Professor Alan Collins.

The Washington Post reported this week that five Somali men convicted on piracy charges in the attack of a Virginia-based ship in the Indian Ocean, are appealing the ruling, based on the logic that "since their high-seas robbery failed, their piracy conviction cannot stand".

"The Japanese reactionaries are spreading a sheer rumor that the unidentified ship might be a 'spy ship from North Korea,' describing their piracy as a 'measure for self-defense,"' continued a dispatch by the Korean Central News Agency, the official news service of what is formally called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The idea behind the proposed legislation was to scare the British public into kicking their piracy habit.

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On the oceans they had never observed the truce but continued their piracies against Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

Then the lawmakers came along with their anti-piracy bills -- their SOPAs, their PIPAs -- talking about the need to protect the big entertainment companies from copyright infringement.

For them, and the crews who man their ships, piracy remains a serious, and bloody, business.

Trade organizations find file-sharing data so hard to track that it isn't even included in their official piracy calculations.

"We are very upset that despite our agreement and review by their team, piracy was found in the store.

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