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Yves Saint Laurent pillaged the Steppes and the Far East.
He burned, he pillaged, he murdered, and he liked it.
Their crops had been scorched, their villages had been pillaged.
Having been pillaged by nine foreign armies, they distrust outsiders.
The hackers had first pillaged a massive trove of background-check data.
He believes Vikings pillaged English horses and sailed to Iceland with them.
The government had penetrated and pillaged the servers of global technology companies.
Rather than wooing neglected villagers, they pillaged food, stole cattle and poisoned water.
Foreign marauders have never pillaged that wealth, because they know nothing about it.
Warren Harding never pardoned members of his Ohio Gang that pillaged the treasury.
Today, they are nations exploited and pillaged by an unjust international economic order.
"Everything was already pillaged through by my sister and my mother," he recalls.
Since South Sudan's independence in 2011 its leaders have pillaged the country (see article).
The United States and other countries, through their governments or institutions, occasionally return pillaged items.
Without firing a shot, Congolese soldiers fled to nearby towns, where they raped and pillaged.
They have besieged the financial sector and permeated and pillaged our ivy walls of academia.
These included the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, which the Islamic State pillaged in 2015.
Humans raped, pillaged, and shot the hosts; the hosts were repaired for another day of degradation.
His militia killed about 200 people, raped women, and pillaged and burned homes in the village.
Those supporters have pillaged the Venezuelan treasury to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
It's home to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, which Uber pillaged to staff its self-driving division.
Having pillaged shallower waters, the world's fishing powers are looking to the mesopelagic as a new frontier.
The consequence, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, is that they, too, are being pillaged.
"If someone is it raped, pillaged, mugged, it should be about punishment," Paul said about the incident.
For context, Snapchat, which Instagram Stories pillaged, had 178 million as of its third-quarter earnings report.
Attempting to buy supplies online, if what you're after has already been pillaged, can ramp up anxiety.
The military said it wanted to target the criminals around Mr. Mugabe who had pillaged the country's economy.
Foreign powers, successive leaders and an alphabet soup of rebel groups have all pillaged its rich natural resources.
The billowing gold mantle recalls the Roman and Italian sculptures Napoleon had recently pillaged and brought to the Louvre.
Soldiers pillaged indigenous communities, raped women and girls, and stole children who survived massacres, putting hundreds up for adoption.
It seems only a matter of time before this album is pillaged by music supervisors looking to add emotional oomph.
""Well, it doesn't disappear — it just never comes back once it's been borrowed: My vintage jeans collection has been pillaged!
Yes, your ancestors plundered and pillaged and mauled their way though Britain and France and Constantinople and Russia and Ukraine.
"Lots of armies have damaged and pillaged ... but the military are beginning to take this far more seriously," said Stone.
When that temple was pillaged by foreign invaders, the remaining oil was barely enough to burn for one more day.
Incans, Olmecs, Aztecs—their finest works of art were all pillaged, razed, broken apart, and their gold was melted down.
Black culture (along with other ethnic cultures) is continually pillaged by the fashion and beauty industries without receiving its proper recognition.
Directors have pillaged soaps for their conventions and most intriguing ideas, without risking the artistic Siberia of actually working in soaps.
Many of the pillaged avocado farms have installed updated security systems in order to prevent further fruit thievery until growing stabilizes.
After the Communist government fell, in 1992, Gul Agha and his men had taken part in the civil war that pillaged Kandahar.
Ukraine need not be poor, but corrupt officials have systematically pillaged the country, robbing Ukrainians of the prosperity that should be theirs.
In recent years, the U.S. has seen the dramatic rise of global cyber crime syndicates that have pillaged banks, department stores and hotels.
It evolved into an organization of fighters who pillaged parts of Uganda, southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic.
Some accuse the modernists of having culturally pillaged tribal art, while others point out that the African artists and cultures went mostly unattributed.
The Islamic State, or ISIS, is known to have prolifically pillaged artifacts from Iraq and Syria, generating millions of dollars to fund its operations.
Rioters on Wednesday pillaged a gendarmerie post and set fire to a security forces vehicle, before Guinean forces opened fire to push them back.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Movements and campaigns to repatriate the artifacts of countries pillaged by European colonial powers have become increasingly common.
So we seize what we can from our pillaged landscape and, like our ancestors before us, take beauty, however fleeting, where we find it.
Collected by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah al-Thani, these tokens of a colonial past were pilfered, pillaged and otherwise procured as "gifts" from India.
Malaysia is still struggling with the fallout of billions of dollars that were pillaged from a national investment fund, 1MDB, or 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
In the early 25s, as Southern California's population surged, and a fascination with unusual desert species intensified, tourists and gardeners pillaged the local Eden.
The Bharatiya Janata Party believes Patel was a Hindu nationalist, citing his support in reconstructing a temple once pillaged by Muslim invaders as evidence.
Only a handful of more than 500 Eshmoun statues pillaged from the storerooms of Byblos citadel in 1981 have been identified and returned to Lebanon.
Neither the aliens nor the man fighting them has any specific ideology beyond power: for freedom to pillage the underclass and freedom from being pillaged.
These refugees attacked, destroyed, and pillaged Ugarit, Crete, Cypress, Hattusa (the capital of the Hittite Empire), Babylon, Canaan and pretty much everything in their path.
"Town Destroyer" was the name given to Washington by the people of the Iroquois Confederacy, whose villages were burned and pillaged during the Revolutionary War.
The many works pillaged by the military during the Revolution and at the height of the French empire would eventually wind up in the Louvre.
Now that users had a handy gadget for listening to MP3 files, they pillaged as many as they could, though the process was a lucky dip.
A makeshift school had more than double the number of pupils it was intended for, and its meager facilities were regularly pillaged by criminals, Serra said.
The fund is meant to help federal agencies better defend themselves from the foreign hackers who have pillaged personal information from numerous agencies in recent years.
The 400 or 500 remaining villagers—the old and the very young—walked for eight days, as Buddhist vigilante groups pillaged and burned and chased them.
In the Franciscan view, by contrast, "God created Earth to be in relationship with us," meaning that it should be taken care of rather than pillaged.
Kevin Draper: Uruguay's defense took seriously how badly Kylian Mbappé pillaged Argentina's defense in the last game, or perhaps Uruguay's defense is just better (probably both).
Years later, Mr. Azzawi still finds it unfathomable that Iraqis pillaged various national museums in 21990 while the American troops who had toppled Saddam Hussein watched.
Villages have been burned to the ground and pillaged in acts that hint at the larger economics at play: Many fighters haven't been paid for months.
Add Ford to the list of companies that are being pillaged by Uber in its quest to excel in the hyper-competitive world of self-driving cars.
Even as looters pillaged a burning CVS drugstore across the street from a Pratt branch, Hayden kept the library open, under the protection of National Guard troops.
Protests that started peacefully soon turned violent as rioters looted, pillaged and raped, and blocked roads, railways and a canal that supplies about half of Delhi's water.
ARSENALS PILLAGED When, in the spring of 2014, the armed rebellion started in Ukraine's Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, police and soldiers abandoned their bases.
She adds that many of these historic sites were so poorly maintained and understood in peacetime that it is little wonder they were pillaged in the war.
About 200 of the girls remain in captivity, but they are a fraction of the untold thousands the group has burned, pillaged, raped, bombed, abducted and slaughtered.
The vast majority of these treasures, some of which were stuffed into wall cavities, were stolen when the enemy troops pillaged the city, Mr. Boccia Romañach said.
For years, North Korea's Lazarus Group hackers have plundered and pillaged the global internet, scamming and infecting digital devices around the world for espionage, profit, and sabotage.
I've listened as they've described in horror the way Castro and his thugs pillaged the country, promising social services like healthcare and education were worth their freedom.
It was ransacked by rioting Protestant Huguenots in the 16th century, pillaged during the French Revolution of the 1790s and left in a state of semi-neglect.
He will build again with new bricks and mortar, replace pillaged pews and find a chandelier more beautiful than the one he had installed a few years ago.
The investigators did not provide details about the suspected mass graves, but said that about 120 towns and villages were pillaged and destroyed between December and mid-March.
They were captured during Daenerys's assault on the Lannister army after it pillaged High Garden, and refused to bend the knee — so Daenerys had her dragon incinerate them.
India suffered nearly two centuries of subjugation by its British masters, and, in this era, it saw its treasures pillaged, its economy decimated, and its cultural values suppressed.
"These fatted calves are now ripe for the plucking by governments everywhere," he said, adding that tech companies were going to be "pillaged" by administrations across the world.
After all, a large part of Russia's current situation is a result of its economy being decimated and pillaged by US-backed capitalist reforms in the 1990's.
His dream is not only about his mother; it is a premonition of the pillaged homes of millions of Eastern European Jews, the loss of a whole civilization.
If my body is Rome, it's going to take a Visigoth army of a flu to sack it, and it's going to be looted and pillaged for days.
The Magicians, once a fantasy trilogy that pillaged franchises like Harry Potter to middling effect, is now the queer, emotionally devastating heir to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's throne.
Some jars, pillaged by previous customers, stand empty save for the inky pickling dregs, or with their walls like frosted panes in winter, etched in salt and sugar.
It was tragedy enough that Peep had to die so young; that his unreleased material is being pillaged for a cheap novelty like "Falling Down" adds insult to injury.
Navigating by the stars and using evasion tactics gleaned from Vietnam War movies, they pillaged peanut butter and pasta — as well as moonshine and marijuana — from remote hunting cabins.
Iraq is replete with thousands of archaeological sites, many of which were heavily damaged or pillaged by Islamic State during its barbaric three-year-rule which ended in 2017.
They&aposre happy, and they&aposd rather avail themselves of what&aposs going on in America than to stay in Mexico or Central where they&aposre raped, pillaged, and trafficked.
Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict zones in the Middle East are being offered for sale on Facebook, researchers say, including items that may have been looted by Islamic State militants.
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo uncovered the influence peddling and other multibillion-dollar corruption that pillaged public funds in Puerto Rico amid the worst fiscal crisis in the island's modern history.
Paintings rarely get to share war stories in a museum exhibition, especially works like Matisse's "Blue Dress in a Yellow Armchair" that have been pillaged, traded and salvaged by many hands.
Production revises history, depicting a black nation that's grand and technologically advanced yet in tune with nature, evoking a certain rightful connectedness with the continent compared to societies that pillaged land.
Detective Jack McNally and his colleagues headed right over, arriving to find the Hall of Gems a total mess, with numerous display cases shattered, the cabinets broken and their contents pillaged.
Encouraged by our supervisor, my co-workers pillaged the leftover belongings, carried, most likely, by men enticed to smuggle by the promise of reduced fees for their own passage into America.
It's a trek full of surprises and we encounter mud pools made by wild pigs and the remnants of a temple that was pillaged for its precious stones after the earthquake.
But just as JAMC pillaged the past to create their own music, so too have generations of subsequent acts taken just about every possible trait from group save the band name itself.
The report by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French art historian Benedicte Savoy marks a potential milestone in the fight by African countries to recover works pillaged by Western explorers and colonisers.
The Democrats benefited twice from the most tumultuous week in U.S. politics that I can recall, at least since the week before: Comey was sacked; and Trump was pillaged by the swamp.
Pekingese were first introduced to Europe when Western armies pillaged the Summer Palace in Beijing and stole several of the Qing court's dogs during the Second Opium War in the late 1850s.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Palmyra, an ancient city that was invaded and pillaged twice by Islamic State forces, has become a symbol for Russia's expanding influence over war-torn Syria.
He warned all sides to "be more careful towards a country that has been pillaged and people who have made, and are continuing to make, so many sacrifices in the name of Europe".
Both Castile and Sterling will be further dehumanized; their pasts will be pillaged, and attempts will be made to recast both victims as the gunmen, the aggressors who brought their deaths upon themselves.
BOKE, Guinea (Reuters) - When the frustration of youths in this Guinean mining town finally erupted, they looted shops, pillaged government buildings and smashed up dozens of vehicles, dispersing only when police opened fire.
The first message warned that "we will burn the reputation of their banks the same way we torched their banks," referring to protesters across Iran who pillaged and burned about 730 bank branches.
The fund —  initially included in President Obama's latest budget proposal — is meant to help federal agencies better defend themselves from foreign hackers who have pillaged personal information from numerous agencies in recent years.
Image 2 of 2 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Looters pillaged burned and vandalized shops in Haiti&aposs capital Sunday following two days of violent protests over the government&aposs attempt to raise fuel prices.
Investigators believe they pillaged 220 MB of data related to the F-22 Raptor, as well as files related to the F-35, including its flight test protocols, which Su carefully translated into Chinese.
For a full week the mob destroyed Roman Catholic churches and pillaged Catholic homes in what came to be known as the Gordon Riots, the most destructive domestic upheaval in the history of London.
"We must all be careful towards a country that has been pillaged and people who have made, and are continuing to make, so many sacrifices in the name of Europe," he said this month.
More days than not, the president appears to view trade pacts as fresh opportunities for the United States to get mugged in a global marketplace in which countries are either pillaging or getting pillaged.
But they also reflected the abiding dissonance of those years: The very communities that were being creatively pillaged were being politically ignored and repressed, and their frustration would boil over as the decade progressed.
The US Embassy  urged citizens to stay inside as Haitians armed themselves with guns and looters burned down buildings, pillaged shops and set up fiery roadblocks in clashes with local police over the price change.
Riots have gripped Boke and surrounding towns several times this year as angry youths have pillaged police posts and blocked trains and railroads to protest against electricity cuts and a lack of jobs and services.
But a local court blocked the statue's return to Tsushima, on the grounds that it had probably been pillaged centuries ago by the wako from a South Korean temple that was suddenly demanding its return.
More than 5,200 victims were authorised by the court to testify in the trial that Mr Bemba and his men had sexually assaulted them or pillaged their property in a rampage of murder and mayhem.
MLC soldiers had pillaged to supplement their meager wages during the intervention in support of Central African Republic's then-President Ange-Felix Patasse, who was eventually deposed by rebels led by his successor, Francois Bozize.
Black people looting white businesses, she said, was not just economic protest; it was a way of getting even for the ways black communities have been pillaged through profit-making strategies built on white supremacy.
Most of the pillaged architectural elements taken from villages such as Joinville are relatively mundane and have only limited value compared with the art and architecture of France's grandest homes, which often include unique pieces.
Tales of cars disappearing from outside buildings; ornate and antique woodwork being pillaged from historic mosques; people waking up to find land designated for farming suddenly turned into construction zones; or heritage sites in ruin.
Afghanistan has been pillaged and desecrated by the Taliban for two decades; the Islamic State has wrought destruction and looted artifacts in Iraq, Syria and Libya; and rebel factions have sacked museums and mosques in Yemen.
In December 863 the Séléka, a mainly Muslim rebel alliance, pillaged its way south and three months later overthrew President François Bozizé, a former army chief of staff who had seized power in a coup in 286.
In the first seven hours of Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara shoots, burns, stabs, and drowns men from Syria to Siberia, scavenging their bodies for resources before leaving the pillaged detritus to rot in the sun.
From the pillaged tree, we'll head south to Castle Black, where Sansa, Jon, Davos and Brienne made plans to retake Winterfell with a loose coalition of northern houses and whatever stragglers they can pick up along the way.
But the report implies that every object that left Africa during the colonial era is a possible candidate for restitution — that just because a work of art was bought, rather than pillaged, it may still be ill-gotten.
" He went on to describe a "rigorously organized" process in which the paramilitary groups followed the Syrian Army and pillaged at will, sometimes "dragging homeowners from their houses and robbing the houses right in front of their eyes.
After seizing power from President Ange-Felix Patasse in a March 2003 coup d'etat, forces loyal to Francois Bozize killed and tortured civilians in order to settle personal scores and pillaged U.N. and other diplomatic facilities, the report said.
Pillaged artifacts can turn up not only on distinguished platforms like Sotheby's but also on eBay, which is where Rakowitz found one of the strangest objects in the exhibition: an Iraqi paramilitary helmet modeled on Darth Vader's ominous headgear.
Themes and motifs pillaged from the Wild West — or our fantasy of it — played out all over the fall 2017 runways, most notably at Raf Simons's debut collection for Calvin Klein, which featured bygone staples in unexpected color combinations.
On the day of the sale, a group of protesters approached the auctioneer and proceeded to carry out an unprecedented, hour-long public debate in the salesroom to discuss the reasons for restituting, rather than selling, pillaged cultural patrimony.
This year, I had an opportunity to do some scaring myself in the role of a "harvest victim" who has been pillaged for parts by plastic surgery-obsessed maniacs at the "Vanity Ball," one of five elaborately themed zones.
"In this scene, the familiar redhead figure has switched sides to become a pirate named Redd, who's just pillaged the town's rum supply and has something to say about it," Disney Imagineer Kathy Mangum explained on the Disney Parks blog.
During World War I, this stretch of pastoral landscape, which the generals (and now historians) called the Ypres Salient, was one of the most heavily trenched, mined, mortared, bombed, gassed, pillaged, burned, and bullet-riddled places along the Western Front.
"It is remarkable how many of these accounts were compromised and then pillaged in a relatively short period of time," Tom Kellermann, an expert in cyber crime who is chief executive of U.S.-based investment firm Strategic Cyber Ventures, said.
The resulting combination — the excitement of "jump" and early R&B music, blues licks and showmanship, country chords and melody — became the template for rock 'n' roll swiftly adopted (or pillaged) by white artists like the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
As a result, it has evolved into a culturally distinct palimpsest; repeatedly pillaged and colonized, now an independent nation (and stalwart EU member) it has aspects of culture, language, architecture and landscape familiar to Bulgarians and Britons, to Israelis and Italians.
Prabowo, as he is usually known, held a similarly big rally the previous weekend where supporters, many dressed in Islamic robes, held a mass prayer before a fiery speech about how Indonesia was being pillaged by foreigners and the elite.
Sinister images of the French leader, emerging from flames or brandishing pistols against the words "Our rights, burned and pillaged!" or "Macron, agent of the CAC 40" — the French equivalent of the Dow Jones average — were plastered on the vehicles.
In the decade since the government nationalized the 22016-year-old firm, Cantv has cut investment in new technology, skilled staff have departed and thieves have pillaged its equipment, according to a dozen current and former Cantv employees and internal documents.
After the town of Rose Creek is pillaged and burned by an evil land baron (Peter Sarsgaard), the defiant townsfolk, led by a grieving widow (Haley Bennett), hire Chisholm to pull together a gang of misfits to fight against the baron's army.
Fields is the charismatic CEO of Ford Motor Company, an honest-to-goodness slice of... Add Ford to the list of companies that are being pillaged by Uber in its quest to excel in the hyper-competitive world of self-driving cars.
As William Dalrymple lays out in gruesome detail in "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company", its employees killed, pillaged, bribed and stole in pursuit of shareholder value, providing a steady flow of dividends to its owners back in England.
Now for Sale on Facebook: Looted Middle Eastern Antiquities And another yikes, from Karen Zraick: Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict zones in the Middle East are being offered for sale on Facebook, researchers say, including items that may have been looted by Islamic State militants.
But her eyes were shining and she was eager to take me to the Bechara el-Khoury Mansion, a 983th-­century villa that long ago — before it had been abandoned, pillaged and finally shelled during the civil war — was one of Beirut's grand residences.
Mr. Khamenei, who previously had denounced the protesters as rioters, thugs, monarchists and enemy agents, called on the judiciary to show "Islamic mercy" and draw a distinction between people who had demonstrated against the gasoline prices and those who had pillaged and burned public property.
"No cause justifies that security forces are attacked, shops pillaged, public or private buildings set on fire, pedestrians or journalists threatened or that the Arc de Triomphe is sullied," Macron told a news conference in Buenos Aires, where he was attending the G20 summit.
Their Sunday set only served to cement the fact that they have ridden back into the doom metal canon on dragonback with flaming torches alight, and pillaged loads of new fans along the way (in addition to cementing their status as bongrip metal kings among older heshers).
Halo 2 pillaged sci-fi cinema in its cutscenes and designs to hide its narrowness, while Doom 3 used cheap pop-up scares and "no duct tape on Mars" (a reference to how there was no way to attach a flashlight to your weapon) to make the environment a constant threat.
He good-naturedly describes one of his short-storyish novels as a "shnovel" and recounts the ways he pillaged an unpublished manuscript to create various shorter narratives; his tales of rejection (one story turned away by 39 literary magazines before being accepted) and extreme revision inspire with hard-earned wisdom.
But Jefferson looks like a better fit in this particular matchup against the Warriors than Love, whose poise and soul appear to have been pillaged by Golden State, and whose absence on the court led to a few momentous defensive adjustments as well as a distinct surge in ball movement for the Cavs.
The fever dream of a globe-trotting Hindu merchant and banking clan called the Nattukottai Chettiars that thrived during colonialist expansion, the massive homes — at least those not abandoned due to the crushing cost of upkeep, then pillaged for the remarkable architectural details within — are still owned by the families whose ancestors built them.
It makes you consider all the other plundered marvels of human history — the decline and fall of the Library of Alexandria; ISIL's ongoing siege on heritage; the Parthenon of Athens, which has been smashed by mortars and pillaged by colonizers in the past 200 years, leaving you shaking your head as you walk back down the Acropolis.
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