Despite the independence of its former colonies, French imperialism is the main plunderer and oppressor in the region. |
No the plunderer was a Scot. Whatever Lord Elgin's motives, his actions certainly saved the marbles from disfigurement. |
He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots. |
The new conditions of existence favoured changes this, what home farming created, without threats from side plunderer. |
A very small time after our plunderer met with an old shepherd, who had sold a good parcel of sheep. |
Some of the country's 226m people, meanwhile, debated his legacy: was he a nation-builder or a plunderer of the nation's wealth? |