Depredations in a sentence

Well, give the Zionists their win, for the moment, and greater protection for whatever depredations the IDF and police will perform, unrestrained, on the West Bank.

What terrible depredations Nigerians have suffered at the hands of bad leaders!

For one, the Iranians may have been left with little choice but to respond to the depredations the Israelis have wrought over the last year in terms of the targeted assassinations of the various Iranian, Hezbollah and Hamas leadership.

Georgian Dublin was largely wrecked by the depredations of civic development.

Mayors and governors have let these depredations go unchecked, ignoring their duty to maintain public law and order.

Perhaps it is Holloway’s previous deanship at Yale that reconciled him to the depredations of leadership at a university saddled with a disreputable namesake, but Holloway is somewhat adamant about sticking with it.

Rome ultimately fell not because of external threats, but due to continuous civil war, economic depredations and an over-reliance on mercenaries.

The power outage at our house in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco, lasted five days, and shook us from any lingering hope that we would be exempt from climate change’s burgeoning depredations.

And yet the daring Chilean church is now scarred and discredited by Father Karadima’s depredations, by the fact that he was sheltered by those who should have judged and punished him.

The easing of sanctions also gave Tehran additional financial means with which to fund its depredations in Syria and its militant proxies in Yemen, Lebanon and elsewhere.

Appalled at the depredations visited by feral pigs upon the island's brown booby and masked booby colonies (reduced to 500 and 150 birds, respectively), Stager procured a shotgun and killed all 58 pigs.

Emphasis was placed on the depredations of "murderous savages" in their information about Indians, and as the migrants headed further west, fear was the prevailing emotion behind their thoughts and actions concerning Indians.

For this reason, enterprising maritime raiders commonly took advantage of " flag of convenience " letters of marque, shopping for cooperative governments to license and legitimize their depredations.

In 1492, John II dispatched da Gama on a mission to the port of Setúbal and to the Algarve to seize French ships in retaliation for peacetime depredations against Portuguese shipping – a task that da Gama rapidly and effectively performed.

Livestock depredations by black bears occur mostly in spring.

Modern historians have pointed out that one reason for Harold's rush to battle was to contain William's depredations and keep him from breaking free of his beachhead.

No further incidents occurred over the next six months, as French depredations in the area had declined.

Supplemental feeding with carrion is not reducing brown bear depredations on sheep in Slovenia.

The castle of Ard-na-riadh was taken by the sons of O'Dubhda against the son of John Burk; and a war broke out between themselves and the descendants of Rickard Burk, and many depredations and homicides were committed between them, in hoc anno.

Their depredations seriously harm the birdlife.