Sentences with word «pillage»

«While the PDP attempts to fraudulently re-write history and misrepresent facts on its misrule of the country, Nigerians are traumatised on a daily basis on disclosures of the startling level of pillage of the country's commonwealth perpetuated under its watch.»

Despite centuries of pillaging by more powerful states and devious men, despite misfortune brought by natural disasters, Haitians fight to improve their home every day.

But this transcendental teaching moment is rudely interrupted by a horde of warrior wolves on a mission of pillage for their despotic boss, Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), an albino peacock bent on ruling the land.

That's ok, the marketplaces trade in items pillaged from all over the world.

As Disney is knee - deep in pillaging their catalog of classics for profits, they've managed...

Did the Christians not pillage towns and villages during the crusades and steal their gold for the Vatican vaults.Did they not help the Nazi's escape after World War II?

We may not like their decisions, but they probably did not like being colonized and having their resources pillaged by European countries for centuries either.

Oil drilling by the New Jersey - based Genie Energy Ltd in the occupied Golan Heights could well result in a lawsuit claiming that Israel is engaged in an illegal act of pillage as defined in the Hague Convention.

Its patchwork of buildings narrates a history of colonial grandeur, pillaging pirates, and 1950s panache.

Before the 19th Century what passed for archeology was little more than grave pillaging with the plundered artifacts removed far from their point of origin to grace the curio cabinets of well heeled private collectors.

Simply put, Monster Hunter is a series about pillaging resources, defeating monsters, and leveling up your gear to take on the next giant behemoth around the bend.

The moral line is crossed not with the rape of innocent women, not with pillaging towns of innocents, not with robbing graves, but with stepping on Marston's toes.

, Orc Attack is a new beat em» up where players control orcs and are set with the task of slaying and pillaging humans.

Most visitors gloss over this grand - scale pillaging because of an implicit declaration in all of the displays: a declaration that these artifacts, the bones and contraptions, the temple adornments and indeed the silver and gold, were collected in the name of science.

If you prefer dealing with the ways that we have learned in our history books and don't want to fight giant siege worms that are attempting to pillage everything on turn nine, you might want to just stick with Civilization V.

«In this scene, the familiar redhead figure has switched sides to become a pirate named Redd, who's just pillaged the town's rum supply and has something to say about it.»

Another new feature for the franchise is the complete customisation of the playable character, with any loot found in the game world or by pillaging enemy corpses available to equip to your player character and build out your own story.

Getting materials can be tough as you will need to pillage other ships that you come across to.

Set in the middle ages, when the Vikings pillaged the English coast, The Vikings is barbarian fantasy, with Kirk Douglas playing the lusty Viking Prince Einar, the «only son in wedlock» of King Ragnar (a cackling, wild - eyed Ernest Borgnine) and Tony Curtis as his defiant slave Eric, who is in reality the long - lost heir to the British throne.

God's strategies is no different than the way invaders conquer and pillage villages; kill most of the inhabitants and give the remaining a judgment and an opportunity to join their army (heaven) or die (hell).

I'm still cashing in on indulgences that my ancestors earned while pillaging, err..

Iv now spent hours just sailing the open waters and pillaging ships while listening to my crew sing sea shanty's that I can't seem to get out of my head.

This is the difference between corporate pillage of new territory, the old model we were used to, and raising people out of poverty to be productive citizens able to participate in a healthy exchange of supply and demand.

The little group suffered years of massacre, rape, and pillaging during the Catholic Church's attempt to stomp it out.

When I think of the Protestant Reformation, I think of civil war, beheadings, burnings of heretics at stakes, pillaging church property.

Discharged Judean soldiers pillaged and killed 3,000.

Full team: Samantha Murray Kate French Joanna Muir Francesca Summers Joe Choong Jamie Cooke Tom Toolis Sam Curry Myles Pillage Bradley Sutton Sportsbeat 2017

The satire appears over the top, but if you read the Naomi Klein article it is based on - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia - then you realize it's just a funnier version of business - as - usual... Slapstick and straight to the point, it is great.

The story eventually moves underground into a military bunker as zombies pillage the town.

Gamers pillage credits and alloy while destroying enemy bases, and this is successfully collected even if all of the player's army falls in battle.

Perhaps the most compelling of the group is the reimagining of New York's Columbus statue, in which the man responsible for decimating indigenous populations through pillage and plunder has been beheaded.

The Weather Makers will present three large - scale video works alongside a new print series, weaving together myth and metaphor with scientific research and new digital technologies, The exhibition asks the viewer to consider what the future might look like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis.

Many landfills are already prized turf with methane being used as a fuel source, and cellulosic biofuel plants pillaging the refuse headed towards

The camped men rose, silent, and broke the bread of old pillage between blackened fingers.

«To be fair, this is not a new idea to pillage New York and California and send their wealth to other states,» Cuomo wrote.

In History Channel's nine - part scripted series — its first — adventurous young farmer Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) grows bored of the Vikings» plunder - and - pillage raids on the Baltics east of the Nordic homeland.

There are no mobs murdering people on the street and pillaging things.

The US pillages and plunders the world for its resources, and personal greed for the rich, the corporations and for the big military industry that nets Billions.Stop pretending you have no blood on your hands because you do.

He's straight - ahead destruction, a one - man pillage, a Saturday afternoon entertainment unto himself, if you happen to enjoy the ransacking of backfields.

The game itself is rather simple, with your Indiana Jones - like hero running from a pack of monkeys after pillaging an ancient temple.

A corporate board could not pillage profits that way to top up employees.

Despite these occasional pillages, Squires keeps the dogs in check, closing them in her office when they become disruptive.

Point is: Ever since Edward Snowden pillaged the NSA, the world has come to grasp that no organization is sacred — or fully secured.

It was the same thing back then, pillaging long established companies by loading them up with debt, stripping the assets, and then watching the company fail.

Yes, did Conquestadors use Christ as a reason to selfishly pillage the natives, absolutely.

The Spaniards invaded the region by pillaging nature; they appropriated vast tracts of land, monopolizing the best soil, introduced livestock, and enslaved the natives for clearing forests, creating pastureland, and tending livestock, thus establishing land - cattle fiefs.