The Confederate navy was spectacularly successful with its commerce raiders, which harassed and destroyed Union ships in global warfare. |
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The shop assistants refused to hand over any cash and the two masked raiders fled when one of the women activated a fire alarm to summon help. |
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Like elephants, hippos and bushpigs, porcupines are nocturnal crop raiders. |
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Masked raiders tied up a security guard and stole thousands of pounds' worth of computer equipment from Motorola, a court heard. |
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A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal. |
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Armed raiders were caught red-handed yesterday as they were about to carry out a heist on a security van. |
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Here and there lay the bodies of a few raiders, killed by desperate farmers wielding crude weapons. |
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New World army ants and driver ants from Africa are swarm raiders, hunting above ground. |
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The telephone line to her home was cut by the raiders and the burglar alarm was disabled. |
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Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol. |
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The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. |
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The Danegeld was a tax created by English rulers to pay for the defense of their country from Viking raiders. |
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He was gagged and beaten and the raiders then went upstairs where they tied up the second brother who was also badly beaten. |
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It seems to me that this is a classic set-up to rip off farmers' assets into the hands of corporate raiders. |
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At worst, they're unethical corporate raiders who can lay waste to an entire office or division. |
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Mr Quinn had two of the raiders under effective arrest in a car, but when he was distracted by two other raiders, the men in the car rammed him. |
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There are more than enough corporate raiders in the free market willing to take advantage of the vulnerability of African countries. |
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The net was closing last night on raiders who fired at unarmed gardai during a bank robbery in Co Limerick yesterday. |
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There were no corporate raiders, and profit maximization wasn't yet part of the boardroom vocabulary. |
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The raiders caused thousands of pounds worth of damage before stealing electrical items including plasma televisions and hi-fi equipment. |
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Police today stepped up their hunt for a gang of young raiders who trashed a school causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage. |
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The gang of three or four raiders got into the house through an insecure back door between 8pm and 8.20 pm on Saturday night. |
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On Thursday morning last Ardagh Post Office was broken into by a number of raiders who fled away in the direction of Rathkeale. |
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In a terrain so inhospitable to a civilization of hunters and gatherers, the Kurds became a race of raiders and traders. |
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The raiders broke in the front door of the building, which is unoccupied at night. |
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The raiders broke in the door of the post office at the corner in the village and tried to dislodge the safe using picks and chisels. |
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Yet it is too simplistic to suggest that these raiders had it coming to them. |
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The raiders knew where the bullion was and went straight for it but could not penetrate the security area. |
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In the same year, the police sergeant was fatally stabbed by raiders outside a post office in New Addington, Surrey. |
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By the light of burning splints, the raiders had marched all the men into the fields and tied them up. |
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Every room in their home was turned over and ransacked by the raiders in their search for valuables. |
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In a terrifying incident in 1988, armed raiders broke into her house and threatened her family at gunpoint. |
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Unconfirmed reports said some of the raiders had escaped, possibly taking children with them. |
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The raiders are believed to have made their getaway from the back of the nearby Kernanstown housing estate. |
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The raiders were so quiet that even the Luddingtons' family dog was undisturbed by their activities. |
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He declined to give exact details of the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the raiders. |
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I knew I couldn't sleep, but I still had to keep my eyes open to watch for skirmishers, or raiders sneaking up on us in the night. |
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Masked raiders who beat a publican over the head with a sawn-off shotgun were today being hunted by police. |
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The inactive passers-by will hopefully have made a contribution by supplying the police with good descriptions of the raiders. |
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German U-boats, sometimes assisted by Italian submarines, were the main weapon of attack, but aircraft and surface raiders also participated. |
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Furthermore, Johannesson seems to have blazed a trail for a string of other Icelandic raiders who are developing a taste for British companies. |
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In 867 York was seized by Danish raiders from the Viking kingdom of Dublin, led by Ivarr and his brother Halfdan. |
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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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The two raiders discovered that the bank safe was time-locked and fled without getting any money. |
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Eventually, the Aitolians had to be recalled to help their former enemies in Epirus against Demetrios's savage Illyrian raiders. |
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The raiders are described as white and were wearing black clothes, balaclavas and gloves. |
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Sometimes the raiders would be harried on to higher ground, sometimes they would flee through Gleann Einich and over the Moine Mhor. |
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Most of the raiders were Danes, but the common tongue of the Scandinavians enabled them all to work together. |
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If they had not been on the watch for raiders, they would have had time to find it beautiful. |
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You see during the night the watchman kind of maybe fell asleep and some raiders stole the carriage. |
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Consequently, I deduced that the descendants of Eze Chima were refugees fleeing from the Oba of Benin and his slave raiders. |
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The new raiders were even more dangerous than their ninth-century ancestors. |
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But they were not invaders who came to stay or to conquer, they were raiders in search of booty and ransom. |
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The race has been won by Irish-trained raiders on no less than 35 occasions, and by the French once. |
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Armed with machetes and machineguns, the raiders scythe through the rows of huts, torching their thatched roofs. |
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Their country's withdrawal of troops from the rebel republic of Chechnya is the key demand of the raiders. |
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What happened when Viking raiders turned into Viking settlers and took land to farm? |
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A village pub landlord told today how his wife and barman were threatened with knives by armed raiders. |
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She drew rein, bringing her horse to a halt and facing the largest of the raiders. |
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In the early 1820s, when settlers began to occupy Xhosa territory, Xhosa raiders sometimes accosted English herdboys to steal the mother-of-pearl buttons from their shirts. |
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At a point eighteen miles northeast of Lethbridge, the Head Chief of this small army had a dream one night which seemed to predict ill fortune for the raiders. |
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Already the sicker specimens are being targeted by the corporate raiders who calculate the point at which their capital value is at a substantial discount to their assets. |
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However, it was never intended as a stronghold in the sense that Clitheroe Castle was, but simply a place of retreat from the marauding bands of Border raiders. |
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The raiders finally fled with cash and valuables shortly after midnight. |
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Some Pueblos, fearing Apache raiders, re-established their Spanish ties. |
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Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war. |
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But corporate raiders went after strong companies as well as weak ones, and the threat of being eaten led strong ones to do things that weren't economically efficient. |
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In Kazan, raiders have attacked a firm making orthopaedic legs. |
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The raiders gave up their hunt for booty and did not try and steal anything from the salon, preferring instead, it appears, to beat a shame-faced retreat. |
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Several doors were smashed when the raiders hunted for cash. |
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The sudden appearance of a foot in front of my face pulled a scream from my throat and the raiders wasted no time in grabbing me and dragging me into the open. |
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The raiders found sophisticated telecommunications equipment like routers and multiplexes, which were being used to divert international calls from the normal route. |
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Like the Vikings, the Moros were seagoing traders, slavers and raiders. |
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The blue-water warships were generally unsuited for blockade duty, so the indirect approach represented by the privateers and commerce raiders failed to raise the blockade. |
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The raiders in the latest incident, both white, wore black balaclavas. |
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Uhtred is the heir to the earldom of Bebbanburgh, now known as Bamburgh, in northern England, after his older brother and his father are killed by Viking raiders. |
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Maximian in turn appointed the officer Carausius to assist in the battle against the Saxon and Frankish raiders attacking the north Gaulish coast. |
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This material consists of hoards of coins and silverware either looted from Britain or paid over to raiders, or potential raiders, as blood money. |
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Probably not, but don't expect the market power argument to get a run in the face of patriotic fervour surrounding our Aussie white knight fending off the dodgy Swiss raiders. |
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In eastern Scotland, as in other parts of Europe devastated by Scandinavian attacks, the raiders ' immediate legacy was political and social dislocation. |
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Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany. |
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Although some pension funds supported corporate raiders to dislodge ineffective managers, broad-based long-term investors lose more than they gain from takeovers. |
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The raiders demanded the safe be opened, but it was time-locked. |
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Detectives hunting the armed raiders who attacked a North Yorkshire businessman at his home are now focusing their inquiries on the Teesside area. |
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Genetic evidence contradicts the common perception that Vikings were primarily pillagers and raiders. |
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From the beginning of the ninth century, Norse raiders appeared on the coasts. |
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The perpetrators are unknown, but Chauci raiders are among the prime suspects. |
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And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks. |
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It suffered especially from Viking raids, and was often used as a winter base by Viking raiders when they were unable to reach Normandy. |
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From the 9th century, waves of Viking raiders plundered Irish monasteries and towns. |
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However, according to Patrick's own account, it was the raiders who brought him to Ireland where he was enslaved and held captive for six years. |
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Possibly some, like the later Viking settlers, may have begun as piratical raiders who later seized land and made permanent settlements. |
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Similar small skirmishes with independent Viking raiders would have occurred for much of the period, as they had for decades. |
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The system threatened Viking routes and communications, making it far more dangerous for the Viking raiders. |
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Elsewhere in the world, the Navy hunted down the handful of German surface raiders at large. |
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In the 3rd and 4th centuries, the city was under attack from Picts, Scots, and Saxon raiders. |
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Sometime around 800, a Reeve from Portland in Wessex was killed when he mistook some raiders for ordinary traders. |
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While unlikely to provide as much protection as a more complex castle, they offered security against raiders and other small threats. |
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Similar to the shore forts, the fortress was built to protect Britannia from raiders. |
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In 846 Moor raiders sacked the extra muros Basilicas of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Rome. |
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During the American Civil War, the Confederacy sent out several commerce raiders, the most famous of which was the CSS Alabama. |
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From the summer of 1940 a small but steady stream of warships and armed merchant raiders set sail from Germany for the Atlantic. |
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With so many German raiders at large in the Atlantic, the British were forced to provide battleship escorts to as many convoys as possible. |
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In 1613, Portuguese raiders burned down the settlement, which by then was nominally part of the Johor Sultanate. |
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He believed it referred to bands of outcast Gaelic raiders, suggesting that the Scots were to the Gaels what the Vikings were to the Norse. |
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More raiders crossed from Jedburgh and rampaged through Northumberland, burning homes and farms as they went. |
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Stoats regularly climb trees to gain access to birds' nests, and are common raiders of nest boxes, particularly those of large species. |
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The Volcae Tectosages were among the successful raiders of the Delphi expedition and were said to have transported their booty to Tolosa. |
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A significant part of these raiders however did not return and crossed the Bosporus instead. |
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From the middle of the 5th century the Germanic raiders began to settle in the eastern river valleys. |
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King Arthur's twelve battles and defeat of invaders and raiders are said to have culminated in the Battle of Badon. |
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Viking travellers and colonists were seen at many points in history as brutal raiders. |
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The Pull factor suggests that the weak political bodies of Britain and Western Europe made for an attractive target for Viking raiders. |
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As a result, Viking raiders found it easy to sack and then retreat from these areas which were thus frequently raided. |
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The Kingdom of the Franks under Charlemagne was particularly devastated by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine with near impunity. |
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The effectiveness of these tactics earned Vikings a formidable reputation as raiders and pirates. |
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It also sent vessels to protect merchant shipping and to hunt down and destroy the few Confederate raiders and privateers still operating. |
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During the reign of King Louis XIV, a large number of commerce raiders once again made their base at Dunkirk. |
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They cooperated with local raiders and introduced them to the latest Dutch sailing rigs, enabling them to brave Atlantic waters. |
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The abbey church, dedicated to Our Lady and St Rumon, was destroyed by Danish raiders in 997 and rebuilt under Lyfing, the second abbot. |
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Caesar asserts they had first crossed the channel as raiders, only later establishing themselves on the island. |
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The tributaries emptying into the Danube offered cheap transport routes, but also made good approach routes for invaders and raiders. |
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The raiders escaped, only to have their ships beached at Tynemouth and the crews killed by locals. |
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Note that not all the Norse arriving in Ireland and Great Britain came as raiders. |
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Slave traders and raiders moved throughout eastern and central Africa to meet the rising demand for enslaved men, women, and children. |
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During this time, the Habsburg Empire sometimes covertly hired Cossack raiders to go against the Ottomans to ease pressure on their own borders. |
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In the Viking era beginning circa 793, the Norse raiders often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered. |
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Caesar, by virtue of his military victories over the raiders and bandits in Hispania, had been awarded a triumph by the Senate. |
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MacLeod from Dunvegan, his tacksmen big with vengeance, caught up with the raiders by Ardmore Bay, and none of the MacDonalds was spared. |
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Back in the lab, the researchers offered the raiders a series of ant farms tended by cultivating species. |
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Lawn raiders and ransackers such as skunks, Canada geese, groundhogs and moles all present somewhat differing approaches to resolve. |
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The masked raiders, wearing boiler suits, burst into the store wielding what looked like a sub-machine gun and three handguns. |
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The bollards look as they are in place to stop ram raiders and spoil the look of a rural village. |
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The raiders managed to haul it several yards to the door of the burial chamber before running away. |
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A SUPERMARKET worker was tied up with SHRINK-WRAP by masked raiders, who got away with cash from a Lidl store in Wallington, London. |
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Pennsylvania was a state whose industries had been particularly hard hit in the 1980s by corporate raiders, takeovers, and investment capital. |
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A MOTORIST was stabbed 12 times by two raiders who wanted the keys to his Mercedes in a ferocious midmorning attack. |
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It is believed the raiders stopped at cash dispensers along a route between Belfast and Lisburn, trying out their system. |
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Narc is officially rated only 2lb inferior to hot favourite Benny The Bull, and unlike some of the US raiders, is proven on a straight course. |
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The Treasury should shut loopholes exploited by footloose international corporate raiders. |
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Two raiders were caught on camera hot-wiring the white Renault van, emblazoned with foodbank logos, before driving it away. |
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The Chinese military, caught between fruitless efforts to defeat the Manchu raiders from the north and huge peasant revolts in the provinces, essentially fell apart. |
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Armed raiders wearing balaclavas threatened staff with hammers at the One Stop convenience store in Weddington Road, Nuneaton, just after 10pm on Thursday. |
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The raiders grabbed a cassette recorder belonging to the Rev. |
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Nothing makes particularly strong appeal in the Ladies Open Race and it may pay to follow one of the Yorkshire raiders, Poppy Day or Fernhurst Lad. |
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The Tchenguiz brothers are known as colourful characters in the City and they became aggressive corporate raiders in building up their extensive empire. |
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Starting in the 4th century AD, Irish raiders settled Wales extensively, their impact being so great that many Gaelic words were introduced into the Welsh language. |
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The raiders ripped the tail off a lizard, stamped fish to death and stole three corn snakes and a parrot from Hobday's Pet Shop in Coventry, West Midlands. |
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Asser's account of the raid places the Danish raiders at the Saxon city of Rochester, where they built a temporary fortress in order to besiege the city. |
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The raiders were supported by many of William's continental enemies. |
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Both Catalina and Sunderland aircraft were flown during the course of World War II in search of Japanese and German submarines and surface raiders. |
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Other German surface raiders now began to make their presence felt. |
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For the first half of 1940, there were no German surface raiders in the Atlantic because the German Fleet had been concentrated for the invasion of Norway. |
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Surface commerce raiders were proving to be ineffective, and on 4 February 1915, the Kaiser assented to the declaration of a war zone in the waters around the British Isles. |
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Commerce raiders operated successfully during the American Revolution. |
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Between the 8th and 11th centuries, raiders and colonists from Scandinavia, mainly Danish and Norwegian, plundered western Europe, including the British Isles. |
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This territory was added to the grant of land given in settlement by the King of France in 911 to the Viking raiders who had sailed up the Seine almost to the walls of Paris. |
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The planned raid on Sunderland intended to use Zeppelins to watch out for the British fleet approaching from the north, which might otherwise surprise the raiders. |
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Soon after, she was hunting for Confederate raiders in European waters. |
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Raeder met Hitler on 21 May 1940 and raised the topic of invasion, but warned of the risks and expressed a preference for blockade by air, submarines and raiders. |
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The Chauci were one of the most prominent early Germanic sea raiders. |
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The system would continue to evolve through the disappearance of Chauci raiders and their replacement by the Frankish and Saxon ones, up to the end of the 4th century. |
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The Sicambri, from east of the Rhine, were one of the main raiders. |
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Led by the OCR the raiders consisted of two squads of 11 men, each loaded down with Mills bombs to hurl into dugouts as they swept through the German trenches. |
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That's two goose eggs in a row, counting the preseason-ending loss to the Raiders. |
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Carson sent another private to ask permission to leave their weapons with the Raiders and try to get to one of the submarines. |
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As the Raiders primary ball handler Korsberg uses her quickness to overcome opponents full-court presses. |
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Next up is New Orleans, which has surrendered the second-most points in the league behind the Raiders. |
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The Raiders and Eagles, the so-called favorites because of their top seedings, will choke. |
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The success of the Raiders hinges largely on the performance of their reconfigured defensive line. |
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On the Raiders side, you get to see one of the most vicious, ugliest defenses known to man and NFL Films. |
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During the playoffs in '82, Michaels claimed Raiders owner Al Davis had bugged the locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum. |
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The Raiders are slobbering over the athletic talents of a guy who can run, leap and catch as well as anyone on the planet. |
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He will be turned loose to rush the quarterback more often against the Raiders. |
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The loss of the player to the Raiders didn't go over big with his former teammates. |
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There was general merrymaking for a while as the Raiders capered about among the gold and jewels. |
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Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four. |
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There also is a strong possibility the Raiders could miss the play-offs, because like the Patriots, they lose virtually all tiebreakers. |
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Despite strafing runs from Japanese Zeros and seaplanes landing in the lagoon with fresh enemy troops, the Raiders kept pushing the fight. |
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The Raiders are convinced Gibson is physical enough to make a seamless transition. |
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This year the Minnesota Vikings traded him to the Oakland Raiders, who are known for embracing malcontents. |
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Evans showed a glimpse of his potential vs. the Raiders by catching a bomb from Bledsoe for 65 yards. |
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The assessments in both areas must begin with the offensive line, which gave up six sacks and 10 knockdowns in the loss to the Raiders. |
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His 96-yard touchdown reception against the Raiders in the 2000 playoffs is an NFL record. |
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Raiders used a stolen four-wheel-drive vehicle in an early morning ram raid on a Salisbury gift shop on Friday. |
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In lieu of that, Alexa points to a pin on her visor that bears the Raiders logo. |
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But when he quarterbacked Super Bowl 15 for the Eagles against the Oakland Raiders, he threw three critical interceptions, which led to a 27-10 Philadelphia loss. |
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Kicking off in 1944, the film opens with the type of prologue that could have been lifted straight from the Indiana Jones escapade, Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
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Over the years, the Raiders gained a deserved reputation as the brigands of the NFL, signing rebels and scofflaws no other franchise would dare accept. |
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The Oakland Raiders started the season as the class of the league, winning their first four games and outscoring their opponents 162-90 in the process. |
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It had been a terrific cup tie, but the game then petered out as the Wasps, showing a fine professionalism, prevented the Raiders from mounting any sort of late pressure. |
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But the host Raiders regrouped to display their normal firepower in the second half as they ran away with a 96-75 victory. |
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All these books have been reprinted, with Raiders of the Lost Ark being retitled Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
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As a documentary of Raiders pointed out, the hat served a practical purpose. |
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From 2018 they will be known as West Wales Raiders, the name of the club based at Stebonheath. |
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Since the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, the very idea of archaeology and archaeologists has fundamentally shifted. |
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Raiders took 15 parakeets including a rare Olive Turk and a pair of Lutino Elegants two weeks ago. |
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Plymouth Titans, Exeter Centurions, Devon Sharks from Torquay, North Devon Raiders from Barnstaple and East Devon Eagles from Exmouth. |
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The event hopes to capture the magical moments covering the Raiders, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Balmorals, Rangers, Bruins and Eagles. |
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The Raiders heptathletes and decathletes participate in the Southern California championships this week. |
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There are two scenes deleted during filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark featuring Sallah. |
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In 1987, the Raiders began looking for alternatives to the Coliseum and essentially hornswoggled the suburb of Irwindale. |
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This view is often espoused in works of popular fiction, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mummy, and King Solomon's Mines. |
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Roving Confederate bands such as Quantrill's Raiders terrorized the countryside, striking both military installations and civilian settlements. |
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Since his first appearance in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has become one of cinema's most famous characters. |
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For the last couple of years, the coaches at the Raiders have never given him much of a chance. They've been fart-arsing him around. |
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In Raiders, however, he is wise enough to close his eyes in the presence of God in the Ark of the Covenant. |
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Lane and his Kansas Jayhawkers and Quantrill and his Raiders, including the James and the Younger brothers, that the modern law of war was born. |
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In basketball, Plymouth Raiders play in the British Basketball League. |
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He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex and, as well as the novelisation of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, wrote the novel of Brian De Palma's Dressed To Kill. |
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Since the Raiders have elevated their play to meet that of the opposition in recent weeks, coach Jim Bittner fears a letup when Moorpark travels to Compton. |
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Spain also responded with no small amount of privateering, using the recaptured city of Dunkirk as a base for its Dunkirk Raiders to molest Dutch, English and French trade. |
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Officers believe the Raiders may form the last piece in a deadly triangle with the Burger Bar Boys and the Johnson Crew in the Aston shootings probe. |
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East Leeds and Oulton Raiders play in the National Conference League. |
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United Biscuits has given its cult crisp range Space Raiders fancier packaging and a lower price to boost its appeal among younger crisp munchers. |
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Olympic Park is one of the hardest grounds to visit in the NRL but its lack of width and small in-goal areas should suit the Raiders, who always look to keep the game tight. |
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When Davies reprised his role for Last Crusade, he imagined Sallah had become richer since Raiders, leaving excavation in favor of selling antiques. |
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