The majority was easy plunder for an ambitious art historian out to make a point.
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Plunder is a non-bailable offence in the Philippines and carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Eisenhower and George Patton surrounded by Nazi plunder inside the Merkers, German salt mines.
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From these vantage points, they had been able to plunder the resources of the centralized state.
They then proceeded to plunder their tractors, trucks and cars, and arrested several hundred men.
And it is invariably compounded by a commons-despoiling feeling that if they don't plunder, others will.
The plunder should stop, and bluefin should be given time to build themselves up again.
Now New Zealand is trying to stop the plunder of one of the last great fishing grounds.
Officers in both armies have also, like everyone fighting in Congo, engaged in a fair amount of plunder.
He trumped up charges of immorality against the Templars as an excuse to seize and plunder their wealth.
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By the time 10 pirates are competing for plunder, the profit of honest merchants has dropped to just 10%.
Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has been arrested in hospital on plunder charges for allegedly misusing state funds while in office.
He sold his plunder to map dealers who asked few questions in a market hungry for rare specimens of high quality.
To many in Colombia and Peru, this is yet another story of robbers robbing robbers, plunderers plundering the plunder of other plunderers.
In the Skyrim game, players can slay dragons or plunder tombs, but also get married or do tasks like chop firewood or cook.
It may be that coaches are entering the international arena at a younger age, which means they have little time to plunder trophies.
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This means that unless more is done to stop them, they will continue to plunder the busy shipping lanes through the Gulf of Aden.
The campaign of 1828, in which his Jacksonian opponents charged him with corruption and public plunder, was an ordeal Adams did not easily bear.
The exhibition includes Kidd's last letter, with a promise of hidden treasure, the original inventory of all his plunder, and a genuine pirate flag from the 17th century.
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And when our businesses are flush, we sometimes plunder them.
In the Spanish New World, plunder further empowered the elite.
So much about the endless plunder of wildlife around the world - and the apparent failure of international agreements to stem the losses - is a cause for despondency.
Pirate101 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game where players become swashbuckling pirates, assemble a crew, captain a ship, and explore exotic worlds in search of plunder and glory.
The book Den of Thieves portrays Michael Milken as the leader of a gang that used junk bonds to plunder businesses and investors out of tens of billions of dollars.
His supporters, including some state governors who may also extend their terms in order to plunder state coffers, say Mr Obasanjo offers Nigeria its only chance of seriously reducing corruption.
"In short, they have the technology to plunder their reefs, but not the institutions to protect them or the levels of development that allow for sufficient alternatives to fishing, " Cinner said.
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For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.
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Weary of being targets for every pirate in the Caribbean, Spain decided from then on to ship its New World plunder the long way around, via Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America.
And as Congo crumbles, it grows harder to plunder: operations at Ituri's vast Kilomoto gold mine, for example, have virtually ceased since local peasants started digging up its airstrip and panning the dirt for ore.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
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