• Largely free from Saddam's depredations, the Kurds have practiced the arts of self-rule and commerce.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The depredations of trial lawyers against the American people and our economy are finally generating effective counter-attacks.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Thanks to Jim's approach, FORBES was the first publication to systematically chronicle the depredations of trial lawyers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Gold produces nothing and employs no one, but it does protect capital from the depredations of central banks.

    FORBES: Bright Gold, Dim Economy

  • They have illustrated for us how the depredations of profit-seekers crush American aspirations.

    FORBES: What If Barack Obama And Paul Krugman Ran A Business?

  • After bitter experience we are all aware of the depredations of inflation.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The depredations of trial lawyers looking to get in on the action will be fueled by outrageous fees from those tobacco settlements.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, has persuaded East Asian countries to buy one another's bonds, to help guard against the depredations of the free market.

    ECONOMIST: A new form of Asian summitry, which excludes America

  • But their nocturnal depredations seldom served to create more of themselves.

    WSJ: Rabies: The Plague Behind Zombies and Vampires

  • He has shown how parts of the ocean are temporarily protected from the depredations of these creatures because they cannot cross the invisible barriers imposed by Lagrange.

    ECONOMIST: Lagrangian coherent structures

  • The WWF has been working with the Indian government to prevent such depredations since 1974, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched an official campaign to save the cats.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | India: Much Ado About a Map

  • He emphasised the importance of sound institutions and sensible policies in improving the lot of poorer nations, many of which rotted from the entrenched depredations of a self-serving governing class.

    ECONOMIST: Mancur Olson

  • Somali pirates, whose oceanic depredations deter investment and trade on dry land, have been much less successful in the past year, thanks mainly to more effective protection of shipping convoys.

    ECONOMIST: Somalia��s new president

  • In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations.

    ECONOMIST: Congo

  • For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The depredations were not only material.

    ECONOMIST: Russians

  • In the latest expedition, Whiteread, who won the 1993 Turner Prize for her concrete cast of the inside of a building, spent her time in the Artic walking, while McEwan wrote an essay on rescuing "the Earth from our own depredations".

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Gormley highlights climate change

  • Character-controlled settlements can grow into full-fledged kingdoms that compete for resources as they seek to become the dominant force in the land, raising vast armies to hold their territory against the depredations of monstrous creatures, NPC factions, and other player characters.

    FORBES: A Brief Look At The 'Pathfinder Online' Sandbox MMO On Kickstarter

  • This golden age of prosperity, as Steve Forbes has called it, was so successful that the American people have forgotten about the depredations of the business cycle, and the three steep recessions America suffered from 1969 to 1982, the last time Keynesian economics held sway in Washington.

    FORBES: Job Killers Vs. Job Creators

  • Fay is rescued from such depredations by a handsome state trooper who brings her home, where his wife is drinking away the death of their teenage daughter. (These pages are so soaked in alcohol that to label any one character a lush seems unfair.) Conveniently, the wife dies in a car accident.

    ECONOMIST: New novels (3)

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