But when central authority broke down, marauding bands lay waste to the land and turned it back into pasturage. |
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Has there been a rash of rape, pillage and plundering by marauding bands of illegals? |
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For the poor natives left behind, it's an uncertain time, filled with marauding Saxons and power struggles among local chieftains. |
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Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death. |
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He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches. |
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There is an abundance of native birds living alongside badgers, deer and the marauding foxes which cleared out the bantams of a previous tenant. |
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I won't forget in a hurry the evening our camp is invaded by marauding cows. |
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Fear of the marauding rabble of dispossessed poor has existed for centuries. |
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Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions. |
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All summer long I battled successive invasions by the marauding black squirrels that lived in the graceful apricot tree outside our window. |
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These men were free, as opposed to the serfs of the sixteenth century, and organized to fend off marauding Tatars. |
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Not surprisingly, it's a delicate issue for Native Americans, considering the once-prevalent stereotypes of Indians as marauding savages. |
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Like most merchant houses, Yin Yu Tang was built to discourage attacks by marauding bandits and soldiers. |
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A shotgun blast from one of the officers put an end to the dog's marauding. |
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In it, a Sami village is attacked by a marauding tribe from the east called the Tjudes. |
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At least twice the marauding Anglo-Burgundian battalions had attacked Joan's village before her departure. |
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Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk. |
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So if someone decides to violate the Treaty and start marauding around the Moon, who will stop them? |
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For many, it's a no-go area, where the chances are you'll be beaten up or worse by marauding gangs. |
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When night falls and security wanes, the janjaweed militias come marauding through the camps and attack the women. |
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Following complaints from villagers that the sheep were marauding through their gardens, metal road grids were installed as a deterrent. |
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That'll teach those spindly creepsters to come marauding round my neck of the woods. |
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Sheep have been attacked by marauding dogs in the Bushfield and Davros area in recent times. |
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Ten years of marauding the high seas had left him with a ruthless look in his gem-green eyes. |
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They went out and joined other soldiers fussing in the streets, marauding the city. |
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Its commanding position allowed tribes of centuries gone by to spot marauding Vikings and other undesirables approaching their territory. |
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His paternal instincts would naturally take over and he would do whatever was necessary to protect his daughter from these marauding psychopaths. |
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Surely the job of an army is to slaughter marauding foreigners, not its own troops? |
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Once the guardians of the citadel granted permission to open the gates, is it any surprise that the marauding hordes came storming through? |
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The owner of the house where she and the baby were staying confirmed that marauding youths from the governing party had attacked the house. |
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The pressure of that blank metal stare chilled Martel's soul, as if he were watching distant, marauding armies on the march. |
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Any marauding bugs escaping the birds and beneficials can be controlled with horticultural oil or insecticidal soap. |
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In a story set at the dawn of transglobal travel, the ship's mutineers come across as the template for all marauding Brits on holiday since. |
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Villagers now have to mount guard on their homes and crops at night making loud noises and letting off fireworks to scare off marauding boars. |
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After a marauding Amoruso run upfield, and a Latapy through ball, Michael Mols held off Laursen for a close-range chance which seemed unmissable. |
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The crossing of the Ngoni, one of the biggest tribes fleeing from the marauding impis of Shaka Zulu, coincided with an eclipse of the sun. |
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Nchingilizya implies shield, a kind of protection which the Chewa people used as a crater to hide from the marauding Ngoni impis. |
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Di Giorgio Martini's fortress walls splay outwards, down to the sea to repel marauding buccaneers. |
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Gravesen plays another very classy pass in behind the defence, but the marauding Bogelund overhits his cross. |
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And many lower officers and constabulary had full sympathy with the marauding mobs. |
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Should you on your journey be startled out of your reveries by marauding dogs snapping and barking at your heels, take note of these guidelines, they may be of help. |
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The mere outbreak of war sets black soldiers to looting and marauding, and war's end, and their elevation to positions of power, drives the simple souls batty. |
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Hollywood decided this part of the world was all about the lone sheriff facing gangs of gunmen and innocent settlers fending off marauding Indians. |
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The attack on a defenceless, disabled man by a marauding youth is yet more proof that the streets of Bolton are becoming an unsafe environment for vulnerable people. |
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The river has survived so far the marauding sand miners and the polluters. |
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This marauding gang moved through the streets stabbing people at random. |
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By tomorrow, it will be impossible to enjoy a cruise or even a day of fishing without being boarded by a marauding bunch of hook-handed ocean bandits. |
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Those on the streets are vulnerable to marauding soldiers and criminals. |
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Thousands perished en route to safer shores or fell prey to marauding pirates. |
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Findhorn, the eco-spiritual community that espouses love and respect to the earth, plants and animals, has employed a gamekeeper to shoot marauding deer on its land. |
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If some marauding Philistine attacks a book you love, you have no choice but to gird your loins and fight for it. |
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These marauding soldiers as they were called went into the Mennonite villages and shot all the men and all the boys who were old enough to fight. |
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He and his family sought refuge from marauding mobs in the equatorial rain forest, where they lived for over eight months. |
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By military measure, Kuwait was easy prey, a gazelle waiting to be devoured by the marauding Iraqi lion. |
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The marauding in Tallinn last year had nothing to do with freedom of expression or the right to demonstrate. |
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The state apparatus was used as a marauding bandit giving Biya cronies chance to rig the polls to consolidate their 'political means' to wealth. |
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In cartoon B one of the marauding Fenians is tearing down a fence separating Canada and the United States as a perplexed Uncle Sam looks on. |
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In East Timor, marauding thugs used text messaging to organize riots and evade peacekeeping troops. |
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Shifting political allegiances and marauding pirates have made independent space travel a dangerous enterprise. |
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But to stop a marauding militia that has kidnapped tens of thousands of kids over decades, a more potent force is required. |
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The AU has previously claimed to have photographs of government attack-helicopters strafing villages to support the marauding janjaweed. |
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It also provided protection from marauding northern barbarian tribes. |
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There she learned to both respect and fear the power of beef, as marauding groups of bovines perpetrated numerous acts of violence in a gang war that lasted decades. |
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A gang of marauding youngsters terrorised parish councillors by flinging a brick at the window of their meeting room and trying to force their way in through a fire door. |
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His soldiers are meanwhile marauding through Bukavu's more modest residences, helping themselves to loot. |
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These camps are permanently under threat from bandits and marauding gangs but also from the Janjaweed militia from Sudan. |
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The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while the stretch from Bam to Pakistan was dogged with marauding gangs of bandits. |
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The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill. |
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They aren't, however, in a military vein and range in diversity from the carnage caused by a marauding horde of escaped circus animals to a matricidal five-year-old. |
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It was only a matter of time before it was hit by the marauding kingies. |
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The peaceful citizens of this State persecuted by the marauding mercenaries should not be forced to mount demonstration to get the state machinery moving. |
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It's a wall dive subject to a strong current that brings in prolific pelagic life, including marauding requiem sharks, to interact with the reef's other inhabitants. |
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But soon it will fall prey to the marauding demonic forces of evil. |
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However, it was never intended as a stronghold in the sense that Clitheroe Castle was, but simply a place of retreat from the marauding bands of Border raiders. |
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It is not precisely determined when leprosy first made its appearance in Norway, but it likely entered Norway from the British Isles during the time of marauding Vikings. |
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Naturally, this ultimate injustice sends the marauding youth into all-out frenzy when they descend upon the community in a violent final confrontation. |
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In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening. |
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Usurpers within the caliphate and the marauding Berber armies they brought in from North Africa were to blame, but for a time Cordoba was the ornament of the world. |
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Later, she is accused of vandalism and expelled from school, when in fact she had been attempting to protect her friend X from a group of marauding skinheads at the time the incident took place. |
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In particular, the lack of help in defense led to constant raids by marauding pirates along the Icelandic coasts. |
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The Saxons took the British fort in the 6th century and later used it as a stronghold against marauding Vikings. |
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According to local tradition these stout walls and the narrow entrances to the yards were for defence against marauding Scots. |
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During the next year, 397, Eutropius personally led his troops to victory over some Huns who were marauding in Asia Minor. |
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A great deal of money is spent by IT departments on making company computers secure against all kinds of external viruses and other marauding threats from outside. |
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Before you know it, there's an escaped whatchamacallit — half platypus, half mole — filching jewellery and cash, and a mega-rhino with a glowing horn marauding through Central Park in search of a mate. |
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There are stories of marauding sheep raiding dustbins in Blaenau Ffestiniog and of others rolling across cattle grids to access better pastures. |
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They bite the air fiercely when nosey coots or marauding mallards swim into their space, and they arc their necks at me and hiss if I show more than a passing interest in their families. |
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Agricola's mother was murdered on her estate in Liguria by Otho's marauding fleet. |
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In prehistoric times, Danes and other Scandinavians reconfigured European society when the Vikings undertook marauding, trading, and colonizing expeditions. |
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Archaeological monuments dating from Hellenic and Roman times, monasteries and churches containing priceless relics handed down through the centuries are now defenceless against marauding looters. |
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Which is more terrorizing, the fear of the marauding tribe coming into someone's home at night with guns and bayonets or the stray bomb that blows someone instantly into oblivion? |
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While the eastern provinces remain occupied by marauding troops, with active support especially from Rwanda and Uganda, democratic reforms in Kinshasa are far distant. |
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Like some marauding Saxon fyrd it has conquered Birmingham and Stoke, and lately moved on to Stafford, Lichfield and Tamworth. |
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I was half-expecting a surprise colonic, which made my disturbed sleep pattern even more fitful as I kept a watchful eye out for cascading spiders and marauding cane toads. |
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Other major features are marauding militia who recruit child soldiers and devastate entire regions, and the ruthless exploitation of natural resources in the region, above all gold, uranium and, indeed, oil. |
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One need only think of how the drugged-up kids of the Revolutionary United Front held Sierra Leone to ransom for a decade, or of the destruction caused by the marauding Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda for years. |
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We realize only imperfectly the immensity of the oceans and the extreme difficulty of overtaking and disposing of swift and powerful cruisers carrying out a systematic plan of raiding and marauding. |
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It would be deeply regrettable if the militia marauding in the region were to endanger a climate conducive to free and fair elections and thus have an adverse impact on the gains made on the road to peace. |
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Other islands which lie close to Barrow are Piel Island, whose castle protected the harbour from marauding Scots, Sheep Island, Roa Island and Foulney Island. |
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In 1445 the first regular standing army in Western Europe since Roman times was organised in France partly as a solution to marauding free companies. |
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Finally, LaFleur and I came to the invasive plant jail, where marauding foreign species such as Norway maple, black locust and Japanese honeysuckle do time in wooden cages. |
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The player controls Julie, also known as the StarStrider, as she fights to defend her homeworld Eden2 from the marauding Gith Industries despoilers. |
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A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies. |
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