Sentences with phrase «pillaging by»

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.

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.

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.

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.

After the king dies, an attempt to overthrow the kingdom of Far, Far Away results in the city being pillaged by villains who capture Fiona and her princess friends and throw them in the dungeon.

Other families in the land were not so fortunate as to have two such sensible parents, and as happens in countries being pillaged by rivals or nature, the weak — the elderly, widows and orphans — were as desperate as ever on the colonized peninsula.

The bright future we were constructing with so much effort and against such resistance is being pillaged by its own inhabitants.

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.

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

During the War of 1812 York was twice raided and pillaged by US forces (1813), leaving a British - minded populace with keen anti-American memories.

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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.

They do not have a clue that significant market players, aided and abetted, knowingly or not by regulators and politicians, who do not understand the unintended consequences, or understand very well, are raping and pillaging the markets in order to concentrate their wealth at our expense.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

Many Christians did not agree with this decision, and in 457 «Jerusalem was occupied by an army of monks [where] in the name of the one incarnate nature, they pillaged, they burnt, they murdered; the Sepulchre of Christ was defiled with blood.»

These policies allowed the dominant world capital to directly and indirectly through its Russian commercial and financial intermediaries develop a strategy of pillaging the countries» industry (through the massive transfer of surpluses generated by the industry to the intermediaries and to foreign capital).

Of course Ainge has been raping and pillaging leastern conference teams for years by talking crappy GMs into very lopsided trades.

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.

«This, after they thumbed their nose at the Staten Island community, pillaged the property by cutting down numerous trees, and ravaged the hillside.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

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.

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.

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.

The model was perfected by Enron when it raped and pillaged the Californian power market in the late 1990s and early 2000s: engineer a deliberate «outage» at a gas - fired generation plant, allow the grid to almost collapse and then extort outrageous prices from the grid manager to prevent a «system black».

Our immigration policy is enough to make you sick: we pillage the countries of the south by depriving them of their future professionals and we want to increase our population to help our economy grow.

Finkel's report promised Australia's very own Enron, among others, the opportunity to rape and pillage in a power market with an effective 42 % RET, dominated by intermittent and unreliable wind -LSB-...]

This spectacular man - made global warming / climate change / climate «fragility» fraud has been about nothing except the «political question» ever since the SEEMING of «science» began to be used by the political left — emphasis on the «tranzi» transnational progressives — to perpetrate the pillage and destruction of industrial civilization more than thirty years ago.

They won't like it when their 10,000 square - foot log home MegaMansions, perched on glorious promontories, are surrounded by pillaged vistas, clouded by coal plant haze.

But the life insurance lobby had visions of Million dollar signs in their eyes and have used plenty of the inordinate profits that come from selling overpriced products that, by design, almost never pay a death benefit, to insure that no one makes them uncomfortable while they rape and pillage.

The alternative Internet prevents the online pillage of your personal privacy and will by allowing you to bypass ISPs.

Enough aims to counter rights - abusing armed groups and violent regimes that are fueled by grand corruption, crime and terror, and the pillaging and trafficking of minerals and other natural resources.

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.