Sentences with phrase «pillage for»

Our lands and our communities have been continuously ravaged and pillaged for the «national interest,» we will do whatever it takes to stop the Kinder Morgan Expansion.»
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.
In the 1970s, its nest sites were pillaged for the pet trade, and it remains highly endangered — not least because individuals don't reach sexual maturity until they are 25 years old.
A truly rubbish shooter that lies deep in Gears» shadow, pillaging it for set pieces, designs and mechanics with zero subtlety.
Whilst most horror remakes have us quaking with fear at just how much (and usually how badly) our genre faves will be pillaged for...
The story of «The Great Forgetting» was one of my favorites and Auntie savored the retelling of a town in the Carpathian Mountains where the people had been pillaged for so many centuries that they knew no joy.

Not exact matches

I live in BC and have signed petitions against your President's plans to pillage your National Parks for the sake of coal and oil extraction!!
In his 30 - minute speech to donors in Missouri, Trump made a blistering attack against major U.S. allies and global economies, accusing the European Union, China, Japan and South Korea of ripping off the United States for decades and pillaging the U.S. workforce.
This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.
Forget about the book for a moment, what about mass murder, gross violation of human rights, illegal invasion, occupation and pillage..
Quite the contrary, as Northcott's discourse about discourse asserts, it's all for the sake of a global imperialism that wants to, well, rape, pillage, destroy, and dominate.
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.
Terror was created in the raids for heads and women in Africa, Assam and Iryan Jaya, the raids for pillage by Vikings, Vandals and Visigoths, and the raids for land by nearly every people from the time of Genghis Khan to the settling of the American frontier to the development of logging companies in contemporary Brazil.
Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?
The monks told Simon that Hitler was planning to pillage the monasteries for their art treasures, even going so far as to send officers to photograph more than 1,000 works of art.
That popular college text sees Calvinism as the pump - primer for industrialized pillaging, and it lauds the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as the freethinking architects of environmental ethics.
ISIS is devoid of mercy and God assigns transgressors equal compensation for what they do on Earth; those who murder and pillage will only find hell's darkness and pain in the hereafter.
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?
Beneath all the pillaging and village burning, they were just a bunch of guys looking for love...
In addition to these concrete demands are general demands, of which the most important are: emancipation of women; radical agricultural reform; general reduction in working hours; disarmament; the rejection of all forms or racism; the creation of a planned transfer of wealth from the countries of the North to the countries of the South to compensate for the pillage which these peoples have been and still are subjected to.
And yet no robber of temples condemned to hard labor behind iron bars, is so base a criminal as the man who pillages the holy, and even Judas who sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver is not more despicable than the man who sells greatness.
«Wise leaders of the nation will give guidance to the common people; yet for a while they will fall victims to fire and sword, to captivity and pillage
We need players of quality in our problem positions, we need a manager who is in vogue with current trends and actually coaches, starve kroenke of cash so he can not pillage our club for his NFL side then we may start the long road back some bleak times ahead
Outside of some sort of appreciation for his (now) former team (of which he nor any free agent clearly doesn't owe), why pillage your (now) current team of useful assets if the goal is to be as good as possible?
Of course Ainge has been raping and pillaging leastern conference teams for years by talking crappy GMs into very lopsided trades.
«For the people of Burma, it will mean the return to power of a brutal regime that has pillaged the nation's resources and overseen widespread human rights abuses.»
Conrad could write about the rough life of a merchant seaman because he had lived it; he could write about the pillaging of the Belgian Congo, as he did vividly in Heart of Darkness, because he had seen it for himself.
Or perhaps Burlesconi will compensate me for the rape pillage and murder of the Legions as they ran roughshod over Britannia?
The heart of the problem in the PDP is impunity, using the party to position surrogates at the gates of our collective heritage for pillaging.
No wonder America is nearly lost because of thise willing to sell her out for their OWN personal gain or to NOT DO DUE DILIGENCE TO uncover the dirt of these provate criminals hoping to steal and pillage from taxpayers.
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.»
The blame for that lies squarely with the rats, pigs and monkeys which arrived with the sailors and pillaged the dodo's vulnerable ground nests, driving the bird to extinction in the 1660s.
Although Vikings are famous for sailing across the Atlantic to North America, raiding the coasts of Europe, pillaging North Africa, navigating the rivers of Russia, and even exploring the Caspian Sea, historians know relatively little about the technology used in the Viking longships.
In the neolithic period this might have meant men fighting other tribe in for territory or to generally rape and pillage.
While the plot can be a bit wonky at times, their is something endearing and admirable that will keep audiences coming back for more raping and pillaging.
The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.
The double - episode premiere drags like it has all the time in the world, leaving a viewer time to wonder if he or she has much room left for another show with swords, beheadings and rapey pillagings.
It is a steampunk - style film, based on the novel of the same name, that reimagines cities as raucous, roving metropolises intent on finding and pillaging smaller transient towns for their resources.
Speaking of Indy IV, it seems to have pillaged Back to the Future's original climax for its nuke - the - fridge set - piece, as animated storyboards for the «nuclear test site sequence» attest.
Rejoining Noah in the present day, he (now a staunch Russell Crowe) and his wife (Jennifer Connelly, her second project with Aronofsky after Requiem for a Dream) live off the land like nomads, farming and scavenging for vegetables as the humans under the flag of Cain continue to ravage the Earth and pillage the world, their depravity reaching enough of a fever pitch to become an affront to God (who is always referred to as Creator).
Fortnite originally appeared as a co-op zombie invasion game in which players would pillage the town for supplies and use them to build forts to fend off against the undead.
Fair play to J. K. Rowling for becoming a multi multi multi (multi) millionaire by pillaging every fantasy inspired story ever told, but quite why anyone over the age of twelve should be interested in this bag of blindingly obvious genre cliches I have no idea.
To top it all, Mayor Murray is using a beautiful siren for his evil deeds and with her unwilling help has summoned a terrifying Kraken to pillage ships passing by Kingsmouth.
Hollywood studios have recently been pillaging the literary canon of beloved children's literature, digging up fodder for animated feature films.
There were plenty of extra panic rooms packed with supplies and survivors I could have unlocked and pillaged had I searched for their keys, blueprints for even more imaginative weapons that I could have tracked down, and cell phones and newspapers containing additional bits of information about peripheral characters and the world they inhabit.
In Blood Dragon, Rex automatically collects ammunition and items from dead bodies, but he can pillage the corpses, ripping out their hearts for distracting Blood Dragons.
«Brad Bird Production Diaries» (5 mins., HD) is the umbrella heading for two brief video diaries, the latter of which was pillaged almost in toto for the «Remembering the Future» featurette.
As Disney is knee - deep in pillaging their catalog of classics for profits, they've managed...
«And we have seen not just in New York City but nationwide an avid pillaging going on of public resources for private ends.»
During my time with the 650S Spider, I concluded that it was too good for back - road pillaging.
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