Sentences with phrase «pillaged from»

As a result, the countryside was pillaged from all sides.

I guess he won't get to enjoy all that money he pillaged from the Orleans Parish Public School System.

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.

«I think one of the things that Matthew Vaughn seems to specialise in is taking everything he loves; he will pillage from things he grew up with knowing that we grew up with them too.

That set off something of a frenzy as the students rushed to see what they could pillage from each other.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

When a huge army murders and pillages a group of people it is called «a mission from God» or a «crusade» or a «jihad».

Crime rates are rising in the major cities, a band of Maoist - inspired rebels is bombing and pillaging its way across a wide swath of central India, and violent protests against industrialization projects are popping up from coast to coast.3

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.

They don't need the threat of the wrath of Jesus to know it's not o.k. to barge in and steal from your neighbor, r - ape, pillage, and plunder, etc...

Exactly... Liverpool — pillaged southampton, look what happened after they signed Benteke from Villa?

And, in what has become their customary style, pillaged the Bundesliga by snapping up Niklas Süle and Sebastian Rudy from Hoffenheim.

If Goretzka does join Bayern Munich it will be another kick in the guts to Schalke but more significantly German football itself as the Bavarians continue their domestic dominance by pillaging the best players from opposition clubs, usually on free transfers and often German internationals.

«What then would restrain President John Mahama and his family of corrupt cronies in his last term from pillaging the national coffers?

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.

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.

Staying at such a place is a good way to ensure that locals can benefit from tourism and not be tempted to pillage their region's natural resource base.

Historic records report that Vikings were repeatedly pillaging on the British Isles and conquered the region of today's Yorkshire — precisely the region the two historic gaited horses originated from.

And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.

Kombuchia is a Probiotic drink from what i understand good bacteria pillages the bad bacteria villages and colonize is the newly freed territory (your gut) so yeah it eradicates bad bacteria but how can a bacteria be an antibiotic bacteria?

Of course, Spielberg is working in a time - honored tradition: After The Birth of a Nation, with its risible scenes of freed slaves raping and pillaging white Southerners, movies have treated this «peculiar» institution mostly at arm's length, from the happy slaves of Gone With the Wind and Song of the South to the simian allegories of King Kong and Planet of the Apes.

Michael Hirst's saga of pillaging and migration remains everything it has been almost from its premiere.

Times are difficult, that's to be sure, but the three women find their home being threatened when a small group of Union soldiers who have broken off from the army to pillage their way through the countryside discover their farm.

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.

And in our film, finally the Bifrost has been rebuilt, but during that time, when the cops were largely cut off from the rest of the universe, you had miscreants that came in from outside the Nine Realms, pillaging and destroying and causing havoc.

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.

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.

Flinthook manages to combine elements from many inspirations and craft a solid roguelike experience so let's get ready to pillage some pirate ships in space!

Of pillaging the Nicolas Winding Refn look book in a bid to elevate a try - hard style cribbed from Guy Ritchie?

Wakandans have cut themselves off from the rest of the world to protect the vibranium and their way of life: that's how their country eluded colonial pillaging, slavery, and warfare.

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.

Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake.

God save us all from these predatory lenders that are using the government to rape and pillage us all.

It's another chance to pillage some quick pips from the Loonie.

More interested in building villages than pillaging them, you now find yourself far from home with a disgruntled band of recently - deceased muscleheads.

Nintendo's supply has been laughable from the product line's launch in November; every subsequent wave has been met with consumer frenzy; and opportunistic merchants have pillaged stores for eBay fodder.

«Sam & Max» Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun - Mak (free with purchase of Episode 1) Epic 5 Game Saga After facing a pillaging primate from outer space in the series premiere, Sam & Max cross paths with even stranger characters in this episode — their own great - grandparents!

An RTS distilled down to the basics of murder and pillage, Crush Your Enemies is the second game from Vile Monarch, makers of the surprise - hit insult simulator Oh... Sir!

This will add some depth to the title and keep you from running through the world with some friends rampaging and pillaging.

When looking at it from the outside, as many have pointed out before, it does turn the good guys of these games into crazed, ravaging, pillaging, thieving chaos agents.

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

The challenge comes from trying to get that treasure back to your pirate ship safely without being pillaged along the way.

MARK LECKEY From the subcultures of punk and trance music to the annals of art history, the British artist Mark Leckey pillages culture to create provocative videos and installations.

Certainly the formerly Soviet Central Asian countries, aside from the desert country of Tajikistan, show the effects of colonial - type pillage (think of the vanishing Aral Sea and the cotton fields for which it was sacrificed).