Примеры употребления для RAPINE
1. After a while, when you have read 100 or so of these final statements, they start to run together into a ghoulish mass of murder and rapine, so you start looking for the differences.
2. And this epic rapine –– looting on a scale not seen since the days of the Mongol Horde –– is just a single rivulet in the vast delta of corruption draining the conquered land.
3. Obviously, our accelerating rapine of the earth is destabilizing global weather patterns, exacerbating killer storms, bringing droughts here and floods there, quietly targeting untold millions of people living on the coastlines of rising oceans.
4. The bloodshed, the violence, and the rapine are protestant handiwork, not in self–defence, but in brutal and licentious phrenzy Had not the tory government, by a popularity–hunting attack upon Roman catholic ceremonials, cast about to stimulate the sectarian passions of the electors, we should have been free from the shame and danger.
5. This despoliation –– with the resultant poverty and unemployment –– has been one of the primary causes driving Iraqi discontent, Schwartz notes; early peaceful protests by ordinary citizens about the effects of the Bushist rapine were met with such savage repression that thousands joined the nascent insurgency.