Witnesses have told an Old Bailey jury they were imprisoned in a blood-stained room and beaten under the command of an Afghan warlord. |
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The panels were carved in the 1450s, mostly by a Florentine called Agostino di Duccio, who was working in Rimini for the local warlord. |
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He is more thane than prince, for his position here has always been that of able warlord. |
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A warlord in the Solomon Islands surrendered Wednesday to a multinational intervention force in the South Pacific island nation. |
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Taxes in turn became tribute, or protection money, paid to a local warlord to prevent lands from being pillaged. |
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Like any competent warlord, they deploy their troops to watch for intruders. |
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A group of soldiers loyal to their warlord came over the hills, looking for a common criminal. |
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Oda Nobunaga, the leading warlord and the first of the three pacifiers and unifiers of Japan, was opposed to Buddhism. |
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In this role he set out to deal with brigandry and banditry of the Isaurian warlord Indacus. |
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Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by, or paying off, the local warlord. |
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President Charles Taylor is a former warlord who seized power and then was elected to it. |
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The warlord was in Central Asia, in the region along the old border of Afghanistan and China. |
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Mr Taylor emerged the strongest warlord from that conflict and won presidential elections the following year. |
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An Anglo-Saxon ruler of this period was above all else a warlord, a dryhten, as the Old-English sources put it. |
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In one photograph, Indhacade, a prominent warlord allied to the Union from Merka, is shown with the children. |
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There is widespread corruption, the illegal drug trade, a tradition of warlord rule, and the condition of women and girls. |
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Chechen warlord Shami Basayev, who has since been killed, claimed responsibility for the storming of the school. |
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When the dotish criminal points a gun at you, he feels like a warlord. |
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Could the death of this Pashtun warlord increase the risk of further instability in Afghanistan? |
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With the lily white Londonder Cumberbatch as former South Asian warlord and 20th century genetically engineered superman Khan Noonien Singh! |
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They had been captured on 27 March last together with a further seven westerners and a Somali by the warlord Musse Sudi Yalahow. |
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Nuer warlord Paulino Matiep was separately armed by the Government, essentially to guard the perimeter of the Heglig and Unity oilfields. |
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Far from a crude warlord, he was a chameleon, equally comfortable as a preacher or a warrior. |
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Do you think we'd be able to take on soldiers loyal to a warlord? |
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Amir Temur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Central Asian ruler and warlord who lived in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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The Liberian civil conflict was a bewildering alphabet soup of acronyms, each a rebel group led by a warlord. |
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David, do you, by any chance, know where that warlord dwells? |
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Adventurer journalist Robert Young Pelton is crowdfunding a trip to find African warlord Joseph Kony. |
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He was accused of being a 'jackal' and of drunkenly killing innocents by an Afghan warlord this week. |
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A warlord and his army has sacked several villages in a near-by valley. |
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Clarke felt that the violence against her highborn character, sold into marriage with a Dothraki warlord, strengthened Daenerys. |
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Of all the warlord satrapies of China it was economically the strongest. |
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The second threat is a corrosive mixture of corruption, the illegal drug trade and continuing tribal warlord influence. |
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Caesar was a warlord and a dictator, but if one can look past that, as ridiculous as it sounds, then one would also notice that Caesar did a lot of good for Rome. |
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Set in medieval Japan, Across the Nightingale Floor follows the captivating tale of Takeo, whose village is brutally destroyed by the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu. |
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Dostum is a warlord par excellence and a classic product of Afghan politics, which is both local and volatile. |
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Infamous African warlord Joseph Kony might soon be taking a break from life as a fugitive. |
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The duke could do many things but playing a 13th century Mongol warlord was not one of them. |
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In the context of patrimonial politics and a warlord economy, an important key to understanding child clientism is the ideology of dependency in this cultural region. |
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In many cases the practice has been perpetuated on behalf and in support of a well known warlord engaged in confrontations. |
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Take Primal Scream and their unedifying habit at the start of this century of dedicating songs to the Serbian warlord Arkan, who carried out unimaginable crimes of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. |
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With his well-tailored suits, shiny cufflinks, wise reading-glasses and elegant ties, he looks a thousand miles from a roughhouse warlord. The trial is being followed closely in Liberia and Sierra Leone. |
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After 12 years in existence and costing a billion dollars, the ICC has, because of bureaucracy and delays, secured just a single conviction, that of Congolese warlord Germain Katanga. |
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Further, Afghans living in territory under the control of a regional warlord are often subject to coercion to contribute to electing the name advanced by the regional power. |
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The negotiated expulsion to Nigeria of Charles Taylor, former warlord turned head of State of Liberia, who was accused of committing many atrocities in his country, is one illustration. |
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Thanks to its military success, the military government at the end of 2004 began to feel able to invite journalists to cover warlord surrender ceremonies or visit areas recovered from Taliban groups. |
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Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes. |
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In response to this, Cunedda ap Edern, a Gododdin warlord from Scotland, came to the area and began to drive the Irish out. |
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Sun fled to Shanghai in November 1918 until the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming restored him in October 1920 during the Yuegui Wars. |
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The siege was said to have been financed by al-Qaida and masterminded by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, Russian security sources claimed. |
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Ki, by Jose Agudo, is a ferocious solo inspired by the fearsome Mongol warlord Ghengis Khan that fills the stage with physical dance. |
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On the other hand, in warlord Zhang Zuolin's reign in Manchuria, a much better treatment than the situation of Manchus in mainland China was reported. |
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The great warlord Genghis Khan was hiding from enemies in a small coppice. |
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For it was on February 10, 1014, that viking warlord Sweyn Forkbeard, said to have been the founder of Swansea and former king of Denmark and England, died. |
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