Sentence examples for this plunder from inspiring English sources

Somehow, Chocó's people subsist amid this plunder.

In the past two decades, Bulgarian law enforcement agencies say this plunder has turned into a €30m-a-year industry for local gangs, putting it a close third behind drugs and prostitution.

Instead, local governments use the money for other things, such as paying the bills, speculating in property, or paying the pensions of today's retired especially those shed by state-owned enterprises during the downsizings of the 1990s.Despite this plunder of the pension pots, China has no shortage of saving and investment.

For decades the "privatization" movement has been a front for this plunder of the public's resources, allowing private corporations to enrich themselves by providing services that were once provided at lower cost by the government itself.

And in the face of this plunder and the price that everyone except those responsible is paying for it, we are told that we must live within our means.

It is this plunder of the contemporary sort—housing wealth, not slavery that Coates focused on in "The Case for Reparations," his groundbreaking essay for the Atlantic, where he has become recognized as one of the sharpest cultural commentators on the internet.

If this plundering was a consequence of turbulent times, it was not the only reason for the huge transfers of art.

Liza Ramrayka considers whether this plundering of charity coffers has been outweighed by the Getting Britain Giving package of tax changes, launched by Gordon Brown back in 2000.

And this plundering is redemptive, foreshadowing Christ.

But the extent to which this plundering is aided by lax and weakly enforced money laundering laws in the West has too often escaped notice.

But the structural crisis that could kill capitalism lies beyond this: in the plunder of society's wealth by oligarchs; the plunder of the public domain by privatisation and monopoly power – plus rampant corruption and anarchy replacing geostrategic order.