From these vantage points, they had been able to plunder the resources of the centralized state.
They then proceeded to plunder their tractors, trucks and cars, and arrested several hundred men.
It may be that coaches are entering the international arena at a younger age, which means they have little time to plunder trophies.
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This means that unless more is done to stop them, they will continue to plunder the busy shipping lanes through the Gulf of Aden.
The book Den of Thieves portrays Michael Milken as the leader of a gang that used junk bonds to plunder businesses and investors out of tens of billions of dollars.
His supporters, including some state governors who may also extend their terms in order to plunder state coffers, say Mr Obasanjo offers Nigeria its only chance of seriously reducing corruption.
"In short, they have the technology to plunder their reefs, but not the institutions to protect them or the levels of development that allow for sufficient alternatives to fishing, " Cinner said.
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And as Congo crumbles, it grows harder to plunder: operations at Ituri's vast Kilomoto gold mine, for example, have virtually ceased since local peasants started digging up its airstrip and panning the dirt for ore.
The batting performance of all-rounder Watson was a positive for Australia , but afterwards he said the team needed to work on their bowling after allowing Bangladesh to plunder 181-7, in which Saqibul Hasan smashed 54 off 29 balls.
The uneasy paradox which so many live with in this country - of being first-and-foremost rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can and paying as little tax as they can get away with, while at the same time believing that America is a robust, model society - has reached a crisis point this week.
Now New Zealand is trying to stop the plunder of one of the last great fishing grounds.
He trumped up charges of immorality against the Templars as an excuse to seize and plunder their wealth.
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He sold his plunder to map dealers who asked few questions in a market hungry for rare specimens of high quality.
Weary of being targets for every pirate in the Caribbean, Spain decided from then on to ship its New World plunder the long way around, via Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America.
The majority was easy plunder for an ambitious art historian out to make a point.
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For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.
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By the time 10 pirates are competing for plunder, the profit of honest merchants has dropped to just 10%.
The plunder should stop, and bluefin should be given time to build themselves up again.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
So much about the endless plunder of wildlife around the world - and the apparent failure of international agreements to stem the losses - is a cause for despondency.
To many in Colombia and Peru, this is yet another story of robbers robbing robbers, plunderers plundering the plunder of other plunderers.
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