• The means we are somewhat easy victims when the politicians feel like raping and plundering.

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  • The army is unlikely to be happy at an air-force man plundering its resources.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • Marauding Viking Norsemen from Scandinavia encountered the basin on their seasonal plundering voyages around the early 9th Century.

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  • The rampant plundering of DRC's wealth of resources, including gold, diamonds, uranium, cassiterite and cobalt, must be stopped.

    CNN: Commentary: No one is safe in Congo strife

  • In Central and South America European explorers found dense populations ripe for plundering.

    ECONOMIST: Creating economic wealth

  • Similarly, Atlantic trade and plundering of the colonies were too insignificant in revenue to have made the real difference.

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  • He set high standards by punishing those he found guilty of stealing, raping, and plundering (including his school friend Eumenes).

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  • Rwanda and neighbouring Uganda are accused of continuing to fuel unrest by smuggling in arms and plundering the region's resources.

    BBC: A rebel soldier with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher

  • The general had been under investigation after allegations, by the United Nations, of plundering during Uganda's occupation of parts of Congo.

    ECONOMIST: Losing the way

  • To many in Colombia and Peru, this is yet another story of robbers robbing robbers, plunderers plundering the plunder of other plunderers.

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  • In Beijing, factories, buildings and underground pipelines have all been destroyed by the plundering of underground aquifers and the resultant land subsidence.

    CNN: Economic miracle, environmental disaster

  • As far back as the Middle Ages, successive Nile-based rulers established a pattern of plundering Sudan's southern and western hinterlands for slaves.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan

  • Blacky Durazo became a brutal chief of police in Mexico City, eventually jailed for plundering millions of pesos from the public purse.

    ECONOMIST: José López Portillo | The

  • For him, the park represents a convenient alliance of economy and ecology, providing a cheap exciting retail space without extensive plundering of resources.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • She was backed by Portuguese communist MEP Cristina Zuber who said it was an example of "neo-colonialism of developing regions, plundering their natural resources".

    BBC: MEPs back Latin American trade agreement

  • Both companies will be plundering their cash on hand with verve.

    FORBES: Connect

  • While Sharples took the plaudits for plundering the points with his four tries in the second half he himself was heaping praise on stand-off Nicky Robinson.

    BBC: Gloucester's Charlie Sharples wants repeat performance

  • HarperCollins is all set to publish the autobiographical License to Steal: The Secret World of Wall Street Brokers and the Systematic Plundering of the American Investor.

    FORBES: The Informer

  • But White and Wessels, who brought up his half-century by plundering three boundaries in one Harris over, launched a counter-attack, adding 50 in just 39 balls.

    BBC: Centurions revive Northants hopes

  • Despite South Africa's precarious start, Kallis tore into India's bowlers, plundering Ishant Sharma and spinners Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra all over the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground.

    BBC: Jacques Kallis ton puts S Africa on top against India

  • Now grown up and living on the very edge of a vast expanse of Surrey heath land, I have once again taken to plundering the hedgerows for their free fare.

    BBC: Surrey - Bring on the blackberry season!

  • To prevent politicians from plundering people via inflation, Haiti should make the U.S. dollar its legal tender, as several other countries, such as Panama, Ecuador and El Salvador, have done.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • In 1970, the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property was adopted to combat plundering and trafficking of such property.

    UNESCO: 18_eng

  • Get rid of the causes of terrorism, oppression and stop powerful nations plundering weaker nations because of greed and globalisation - then there will not be any suicide bombings or terrorist attacks on civilians.

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  • After years of seeing its animated features outclassed by the competition not least from Pixar, its own subsidiary the company has realized that its strength lies in plundering its back catalogue and making sport with the spoils.

    NEWYORKER: Enchanted

  • The movie's kneejerk theme of greedy humans plundering distant ecosystems for energy riches didn't make the cut with the Academy, or with the readers who contributed nominations to our survey of best energy-themed movies ever.

    FORBES: The Award for Best Oil Movie Ever Goes To ...

  • "TWA would not be in bankruptcy court now if it were not for Mr. Icahn's prior plundering of our airline's resources, " said Robert Pastore , chairman of the TWA Master Executive Council of Air Line Pilots in a statement.

    FORBES: Management & Trends

  • On top of half centuries from Shivnarine Chanderpaul (54) and Phil Mustard (50), Kyle Coetzer gave them a big finish as he hit three fours in an over off Chris Tremlett in plundering 29 not out off 18 balls.

    BBC: Lumb smashes Hants to D/L victory

  • Indonesia, since the 1998 ouster of the ruler Suharto and his gang, reminds me of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos: Once stability returned and the corrupt oligarchs were no longer plundering the country, many years of prosperity and stock market growth followed.

    FORBES: After The Meltdown

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