| Sherman marched from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, burning and pillaging every city in his path, leaving only destruction in his wake. |
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| From the 16th century on, Turkmen raiders on horseback preyed on passing caravans, pillaging and taking prisoners for the slave trade. |
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| For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings. |
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| You want people to buy your stuff instead of just pillaging it off the Net? |
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| Mobutu was later accused of pillaging the mineral resources there, lining up his pockets and those of his closest colleagues. |
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| Notice that they're not only pillaging resources these days, but they're investing. |
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| One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home. |
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| For two thousand years barbarian races swept across Central Asia raping, pillaging and ravaging as they went. |
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| We're supposed to believe that pillaging the planet is part of an inevitable progression. |
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| During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed. |
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| He is a man who, when he was pillaging for the Federal government, reduced the term Public Service to an oxymoron. |
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| In Viking days, there were probably mutterings about how mean and amoral life had become, what with all that raping, pillaging and so forth. |
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| Unesco has adopted a new cultural convention to protect historic shipwrecks and underwater artefacts from pillaging. |
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| How unjust to do so by pillaging the church, an institution that was neither responsible for contracting the debt nor had benefited from the deficit expenditures. |
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| Instead of, as often before, surprising and pillaging an undefended village, they had met with unlooked for and obstinate resistance. |
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| Most of Congo's neighbours sent armies into the melée, and bands of tribal gangsters took part, murdering, raping and pillaging. |
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| That is one vessel out of the hundreds that are raping and pillaging our oceans. |
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| In the colonial past, pillaging was carried out in an open and shameless fashion. |
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| Soon the whole village was in flames and British troops began pillaging homes. |
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| After the attack, the commanders personally participated in pillaging the camp. |
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| The increase in criminality within the Army was substantial: pillaging, the sale of equipment and munitions, all multiplied. |
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| The violence which shook the region in early 2007 saw the pillaging of villages, the burning of houses and violations of the population. |
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| A witness stated that pillaging appeared to be the main motivation behind this incident. |
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| In particular, those violations include cases of murder of civilians and pillaging. |
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| The pillaging was, in some cases, a result of the local population removing objects and attempting to sell them to meet their basic needs. |
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| External debt is an extremely effective way of pillaging resources since it seems legitimate for creditors to reclaim what is owed to them. |
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| However, the soldiers soon mutinied, killing the governor, Du Perron, and pillaging the fort, before murdering each other. |
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| Corruption trials for pillaging the state will probably happen. |
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| The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business. |
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| Many moroccan loyalists retaliated, looting and pillaging Sahrawi neighborhoods. |
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| The fight against pillaging and illicit trafficking in cultural objects was successful, and training in conservation for young Cambodians proceeded as planned. |
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| The Egyptian army would have been annihilated, had not a detached Egyptian regiment arrived most opportunely from another direction and caught the Hittites unawares as they were pillaging the camp. |
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| We remind this Forum that the material scarcity found among many indigenous groups is a direct result of the pillaging, colonizing, exploitation and domination of their lands and traditional ways of life. |
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| For its part, FDLR has resorted to ambushing FARDC positions, especially in isolated locations, and carrying out reprisal attacks against civilians, including killings, burning down houses, raping and pillaging. |
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| With every week, those pillaging the island become increasingly ruthless, while the capacity of the public authorities to do something about it steadily diminishes. |
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| Nothing was done to develop innovative, forward-looking, regionally appropriate paradigms that could have allowed things to turn out differently, thereby avoiding the pillaging of natural resources that is in evidence today. |
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| People make an exception of Adnan Pachachi, an elder statesman and former foreign minister, but accuse other foreign-backed groups of pillaging their party headquarters. |
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| They masquerade as a system of preferences, but these agreements encourage the pillaging of poor countries by large investors of rich European countries. |
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| So too with the so-called Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III, whose tactics, in the wake of his victories at Crécy and Poitiers, of burning and pillaging also offended traditional codes of chivalry. |
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| Not all their pillaging is off-the-cuff improvisation. |
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| There was a strong sense of indignation as foreigners were often perceived to be pillaging inside Canadian waters, as a result, people wanted to know what enforcement there was and what penalties can be issued. |
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| In South Kivu, the distribution of food and non-food items had to be suspended in April and May along the Bunyakiri-Hombo axis to avoid targeted pillaging of beneficiaries by armed groups. |
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| Assuming that the local civilian population supports rebels, Government forces have sometimes resorted to destroying, torching and pillaging houses and committing physical violence against innocent civilians. |
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| In addition to their systematic pillaging and vandalism of hospitals and clinics, armed groups have repeatedly threatened medical personnel they suspected of aiding their enemies. |
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| Various barbarian tribes went from raiding and pillaging the island to invading and settling. |
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| Philip mustered a large army to oppose Edward, who chose to march northward toward the Low Countries, pillaging as he went. |
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| The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports and pillaging towns. |
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| He eventually crossed the River Thames at Wallingford, pillaging the land as he went. |
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| In 238, the Goths invaded across the Danube into the Roman province of Moesia, pillaging and exacting payment through hostage taking. |
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| The Rus' launched their first attack against Constantinople in 860, pillaging the suburbs of the city. |
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| Beyond the devastation of the local populations by disease, they suffered considerable enslavement, pillaging and destruction from warfare. |
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| When a house accidentally burnt down, military and impoverished citizens started slaughtering and pillaging the Chinese community. |
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| Known for their unique ships, there is evidence of the Viking presence all over mainland Europe, as no lands with navigable waters or coastlines escaped their pillaging. |
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| Following upon their initial success, the Crusaders captured the Constantinople again and this time sacked it, pillaging churches and killing many citizens. |
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| Strict rules controlled personal behaviour and prohibited members of the court from pillaging neighbouring villages, as had been the norm under William Rufus. |
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| In 1489, the first year of Venetian control of Cyprus, Turks attacked the Karpasia Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery. |
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| The Cossacks were Razin's main supporters and followed him during his first Persian campaign in 1667, plundering and pillaging Persian cities on the Caspian Sea. |
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| Eventually, Bohemond persuaded a tower guard in the city to open a gate and the Crusaders entered, massacring the inhabitants and pillaging the city. |
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