Sentences with phrase «pillage new»

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

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The tribes and peoples of Europe were raping, pillaging, murdering, and raiding each other long before Christianity arrived; the new religion simply gave them a new banner under which they could legitimize the behavior.
This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).
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.
Alexander forbid his troops from raping and pillaging, but, established new democratic governments, incorporating the local customs of the area.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested the Republican tax plan would «rape and pillage» New York congressional districts, drawing a rebuke from GOP House members with whom he's frequently clashed.
An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.
Cuomo recently told newspaper editorial boards that the measure would «rape and pillage» the state, and he's repeatedly called GOP House members in New York who voted for the tax plan «traitor,» and «Benedict Arnolds.»
Since May 2016, a channel carved through one of northwestern Canada's largest glaciers has allowed one river to pillage water from another, new observations reveal.
, Orc Attack is a new beat em» up where players control orcs and are set with the task of slaying and pillaging humans.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).
«And we have seen not just in New York City but nationwide an avid pillaging going on of public resources for private ends.»
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.
I myself have been enjoying pillaging and plundering the high seas in Assassin's Creed 4 for my brand new PS4.
Following this, he spent a summer interning at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York, doing filing all morning in return for free afternoons in which to pillage EAI's vast archives of historical and current video works by artists.
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.
This is certainly good news, but I just can't wait for the follow - up report on the rape and pillage of this new - found treasure.
Struggling with challenges like onboarding new users, enhancing functionality, or supporting outdated solutions can pillage the bandwidth needed to sustain and encourage your firm's expansion.
Both companies likely feel the platform is the new tech gold rush, ripe for pillaging money from our pockets in a ho - hum smartphone market.
When I was down in our dungeon pillaging through my dish stash, for dishes to use for our New Years Eve tablescape, I found my Currier & Ives dishes.
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