Sentences with phrase «pillage of»

Writing in The Australian today ex-Liberal politician and Cabinet Minister Ian MacFarlane compares celebrating the 26th January in Australia to celebrating the rape and pillage of his Scottish ancestors by the Vikings.

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In olden days, it was called rape and pillage: rape of the land and pillage of property!

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.

Now they are planning to repeat their clever pillage of residential housing in the commercial sector.

Your catalogue of efforts to reduce the wholesale rape and pillage of our precious planet was fascinating (13 March, p...

Your catalogue of efforts to reduce the wholesale rape and pillage of our precious planet was fascinating (13 March, p 34).

«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.»

Injunctions and decrees, incursions and pillage of the countryside put the Waldensians to the test, but they did not give in.

God knows what hes writting maybe Jesus 2 the wrath, destruction and pillaging of the earth.

The Assembly drew criticism, to be sure — from atheists who fundamentally object to organized disbelief, from theists who resent the pillaging of their texts and traditions.

It is at its worst in the middle of the afternoon on Easter Sunday, after the hot cross buns are consumed, the backyard is pillaged of all Easter eggs and there's still at least an hour and a half before the ham is pulled out of the oven.

Tinubu said that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was the worst culprit in the pillaging of the nation's resources.

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.

Both Takashi Miike's muscular chase flick Shield of Straw and Johnnie To's wildly compounded romantic policier Blind Detective make an asset out of their respective pillaging of genre signifiers.

By being technologically advanced it refutes common assumptions of Africans as savage, while the continued pillaging of his nations vibranium parallels the European and American colonial theft of Africa's national resources.

With the exception of Mowgli (played by Neel Sethi), the orphan boy raised by wolves, everything you see in The Jungle Book is animated, which is a marked difference from Disney's previous pillagings of its vaults.

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).

Through this reciprocal and performative rite, the Dandies and Berdashe renew each other's spirits, thereby refuting their obfuscation by colonial forces and Primitivism's reductive pillaging of Indigenous cultures.

So far the vast majority of first world populations (whose lifestyles depend on the constant looting, plundering, and pillaging of resources from other countries) have shown little to no concern over the barbaric behavior of their «governments».

The traditional bastion of sober second thought — our courts — are facing an all - out assault against judicial discretion with mandatory minimum sentences and the wholesale pillaging of the conditional sentence regime.

The pillaging of Mossack Fonesca's database in 2016 bought this type of threat to mainstream prominence.

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.

Without the fear of God, most would just revert to pillaging and raping.

Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.

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 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.

They lucked out, had bigger guns than the Indians, and pillaged their way across one of the most naturally prosperous landmasses on the planet.

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.

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

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.

We have avoided the bloody vices of slavery, torture, pillaging, religious....

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).

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.

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.

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.

Schweitzer's decision to go to Africa as a medical doctor stemmed from a powerful urge to counteract the centuries of rape, pillage, murder and hatred «Christian» Europe had perpetrated against the «colored» nations of the world.

Study the history of any organized religion, and it's the same tale of mass murder, genocide, pillage and torture.

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.

One could not overcome this pattern of misdevelopment by a method of «assistance» that merely continues and deepens the pattern of pillage and dependency which created the poverty in the first place.

Did he write that before or after he chopped the fingers off of infidels, murdered, r@ped, and pillaged?

Alexander forbid his troops from raping and pillaging, but, established new democratic governments, incorporating the local customs of the area.

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).

That the kinder, gentler God of the NT no longer demands blood sacrifices doesn't change how He frequently decimated entire civilizations and / or commanded His followers to pillage, loot, ra / pe, take slaves and raze.

These Christians want to read about rape, murder, and pillage, because these are signs of the end times.

Plunder and pillage: the enemy eats his fill of the harvest and destroys the rest; flocks are eaten, driven off, and destroyed (5:17).