Sentence examples for this pillaging from inspiring English sources

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Every other property in here has had this pillaging happen.

I'm writing this from the United States, and as western nations consume the lion's share of the world's resources, this pillaging is often done in our name.

We have to say "maybe", and that this pillaging is "believed" to have gone on, since so far Google has done a pretty good job of keeping pubic investigators at bay.

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I call on the Indian authorities and the public to stop this pillage".

The first to go are the men over forty-five and the men who have been crippled in the mines (at Andrew Mellon's mine, they never keep a man who has been injured)." Here is Hedges on the same subject: "Those who carry out this pillage probably believe they can outrun their own destructiveness.

In one of his more stinging pronouncements, Énard lays into his colonial forebears: "Our triumphant nations appropriated the universal with their monopoly on science and archaeology, dispossessing the colonized populations by means of this pillage of a past that, as a result, they readily experienced as alien".

"This is pillage, this is robbery," he declared.

I can illustrate this extraordinary pillaging spree by reference to one sequence in The Lone Ranger that manages a kind of satanic double-borrowing.

But, as Lou Reed might put it, James Murphy's week beats your year, and this flagrant pillaging of the Velvet Underground's White Light/ White Heatand Bowie's Boys Keep Swinging drums up a fun both rowdy and comic, like being chased by an angry Bernie Clifton on his ostrich.

When Dany asks Yara to give up the inhumane traditions of her culture (in this case, pillaging and raping), she doesn't refuse and hurl insults such as "beggar queen," like the slave masters did.

Though he repeatedly condemned those in power as "pillaging this country," he argued that it was simplistic to say his vote was merely a protest vote.

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