Use "piracy" in a sentence

1. “And your Captain turned to piracy to keep you all fed and supplied?”

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2. With respect to the officers and crew…if the facts stated by Captain Waddell are true, there is clearly no case for any persecution on the ground of piracy in the courts of this country, and we presume that her Majesty’s government is not in possession of any evidence which could be produced before any court or magistrate for the purpose of contravening the statement or showing that the crime of piracy has, in fact, been committed…With respect to any persons on the Shenandoah who cannot immediately be proceeded against and

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3. There are troubles in the north, piracy and worst, and everyone has need to wear armour and learn these simple tools

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4. They were built to accompany the merchant ships guarding against pirate raids, as piracy was commonplace in the great sea and to the south

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5. Nigeria have serious piracy (against ships) problems

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6. They took it one step further and classified slave trading as piracy, an act punishable by death

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7. Believe, this simple change will eliminate 80% of the serious economic and social problems, besides the illicit acts that involve the possession of the money, purchase of favors of somebody else through the corruption, bribery, piracy of products or contrabands

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8. The direct benefits are high economy with costs of safety and elimination of the fraud, piracy, cloning and other illicit acts with strange documents

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9. When Mark asked about this, Princess Bluvi of The Sea People of Kletiuk told him with a laugh that it was a practice that helped to discourage piracy

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10. “She is also well armed with weapons both magical and mundane, in case she faces war or piracy

11. The Revenue Marine also engaged in naval action against piracy and in several wars

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12. If not for the fact he was in Gulagh, Nem would have taken this to be a proper port city and not the capital of piracy in the world

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13. “I find it hard to believe that a nobleman would involve himself with piracy!”

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14. Scrolling text jolts your attention, an aging stage actor’s speech on the anniversary of the riots surrounding piracy hearings in the Morocco sparks more rioting

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15. Kidnapping on the high seas in connection with piracy has been increasing

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16. Even if the Swordsman murderous campaign against sex offenders had not been so thorough, so many communities had passed laws restricting where criminals released from prison could live that someone like Pierre had few options except to leave Earth and try to survive by engaging in piracy provided the Swordsmen did not kill him on the way to the spaceport

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17. Sabrina needed to sequester the friend that had brought her in from a life of piracy to the safety of convoy escort duties

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18. Unfortunately, there is still more piracy as the publisher won’t send out a check for the book sales until another two or three months has passed

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19. I have already mentioned the lack of standards for some subsidy companies, but there are plenty of other opportunities for piracy

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20. It is quite likely that as soon as nations traveled the oceans for commerce, piracy followed right along

21. Another side effect of this law has been rampant video game piracy

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22. His mind went nearly immediately to Rear Admiral Parwan: the man was at best an incompetent idiot, unwilling or unable to do his job properly, or at worst an accomplice to piracy, a crime he was sworn to prevent from happening and that rated the death penalty

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23. ‘’I believe that the voice recordings I just gave you will put to rest the thoughts that my uncle and his crew turned to piracy

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24. It was formed over a century ago as a customs enforcement agency with a mandate and equipment list limited to the enforcement of space regulations and to fighting space contraband and piracy

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25. However, we clearly need to be better prepared if someone ever threatens us again, be it by this ragtag Southern Federation emerging out of Africa and India and holding a grudge for the ouster of Zembelo, or some rogue surviving ISF elements that could turn to piracy

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26. “We’re not actually engaged in piracy! No no! We proudly teach our students to live and work within the traditions of American capitalism! We engage in no actual piracy whatsoever! I’m sure you’ll agree!” Principal Klieglight faltered for a moment as he saw the eyebrows of the woman in front of him curling upwards

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27. Please understand that individual human rights is a notion that is nearly non-existent in this century, while armed banditry and piracy is an omnipresent plague

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28. piracy off the Horn of Africa, an activity that would have been crushed swiftly by the US

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29. of piracy was never allowed to continue, but a dragon had

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30. The men had readily accepted the ideas of piracy

31. piracy in the first ever trial of its nature

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32. Everything about him reflected his obsession with piracy and treasure, even his house

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33. ‘I agree’ said Jacques ‘the British blurred the boundaries between colonization, foreign aid and outright piracy for their entire tenure in this country

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34. Piracy is a fruit of the soul multiplying under a spirit darkened lacking mental capacity

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35. China owes its intelligence to piracy, stealing patents from Europe and USA then selling them under “made in China” to the rest of the world

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36. The stomach bombs whale to feel good, a worst need under a piracy act

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37. “We have been alerted to a gross perpetuation of movie piracy! Where are the criminals? Where are the ones who had unauthorized film screenings?”

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38. “Our piracy homing beacon led us to this planet

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39. The plan to end piracy worked

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40. It was a great enough offence to send a blip out on the Piracy Beacon

41. To hear the Captain tell it, once upon a time his crew had all been more or less upstanding members of the Galactic Confederation, but each had suffered their own series of mishaps that resulted in the stripping of their privileges of citizenry, and they were thus presented with the choice of prosperous piracy or shunned destitution

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42. I reckon brainpower isn't always needed for a career in piracy

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43. getting involved in the whole sleazy piracy thing

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44. knew Topps would eventually raise the whole piracy thing

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45. to snub his little piracy business

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46. He was pretty sure they’d get a suspended sentence and a fine for the piracy – but the assault charges were more serious

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47. incentives, thus contributing to the reduction of piracy, and helping artists in a consensual

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48. addressing the problems of piracy and illegal file sharing

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49. piracy, and slave trading

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50. This type of piracy was never allowed to continue, but a dragon had formed within the lives of all mankind

51. PIRACY Copyright © 2014 by Gary Cecil

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52. seas just in case of piracy

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53. During the last heyday of English Piracy: Captain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw privateer gone turned pirate

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54. This is just one example of how tightly all English piracy, smuggling, murder, rape, stealing, raiding, robbing, and trade was woven together and covered up

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55. Because the richest of the English Aristocracy were also named in those logs as accessories to his piracy

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56. He was not convicted for his piracy

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57. Our Western Civilization has had the unmistakable stamp of their original Greek piracy written all over it for four thousand years: underlain by Aryan piracy by land: and combining both forms of invasion and piracy

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58. Who is Long John Silver? He is the long, long history and legacy of hundreds of years of English piracy, and the lust for silver

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59. A parrot 200 years old: a parrot that had lived through the entire pirate era of England and represents the piracy of England herself: sailing with the most famous pirate of all: Cap'n England

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60. Just as Ivanhoe was a whitewashing of the entire medieval era: so too was Treasure Island a whitewashing of an entire era of English naval piracy: an era that was so evil: it covered the world in its filthy practices and spread its evil cultures all over the earth as a spreading virus of pure fucking evil

61. The English destroyed themselves by their own niggardly selfishness of not allowing anyone else into the lucrative trading empires they had swindled millions of natives out of and built up over 100’s of years of piracy, smuggling and trading in slaves and drugs

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62. For Fanny’s adventures as a “Pyrate” I am indebted, like most writers on piracy, to Captain Charles Johnson’s 1724 book: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates from Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of New Providence to the Present Year

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63. I am not certain this is true, because the writing in the book seems inferior to Defoe’s, but the volume is a treasure trove and every writer on piracy has used it

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64. He no longer took an interest in war, nor even in piracy

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65. One section of the parade of piracy was composed of negroes lately escaped from Spanish servitude

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66. That the petitioners, together with ten others, were convicted by a Spanish tribunal, at Porto Cabello, of the crime of piracy, from the circumstances of suspicion which attached to their situation, and not from any act of that kind committed on the high seas; that the ten others above mentioned were sentenced to death, and the petitioners some to eight, others to ten years' slavery, which they now are suffering; some chained together, others closely confined under heavy irons and a guard, destined to other places and to similar punishment

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67. Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to adopt the most immediate and efficacious means in his power to obtain from the Viceroy of Grenada, in South America, or other proper authority, the liberation of thirty-six American citizens, condemned on a charge of piracy, and now held in slavery in the vaults of St

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68. The gentlemen who opposed the resolution, among other objections, contended that an agreement to the resolution would but involve the Government in difficulty without answering any good purpose; that it would in fact be aiding the attempt of a certain party to prove that the General Government had some connection with this expedition originally, which it certainly had not; that the facts set forth in the petition were wholly unsupported by evidence; that these persons had engaged themselves in a foreign service; that they had become weary of the privileges of freemen, and had entered into a hostile expedition against a foreign country, and, in so doing, had been taken, condemned for piracy, and immured as a punishment for that offence; that the British Government, having been at the bottom of this business, was the proper power to release these persons, and indeed had applied to the Spanish commander for the purpose; that even were the United States bound by the laws of justice or humanity to intercede for these persons, they knew not to whom to make application, and would probably meet with a refusal, perhaps a rude one, if any judgment could be formed from the present situation of our affairs with Spain; that if gentlemen wished for objects on which to exercise their humanity, they might find them in the lacerated backs of our impressed seamen, without extending it to criminals

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69. It was urged that the Government could in nowise be involved by an appeal to the generosity of the provincial government; that these men had not wilfully committed piracy, but had been deluded under various pretences to join the expedition; that they had joined it under a belief that they were entering into the service of the United States; that, even admitting them to have been indiscreetly led to join the enterprise, knowing it to be destined for a foreign service, yet, that they had been sufficiently punished by the penalty they had already undergone; that it was wholly immaterial what inference any persons might draw from the conduct of the United States in this respect, as to their concern with the original expedition; that such considerations should have no weight with the House; that if these poor fellows were guilty, they had repented of it; and Mr

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70. When taken, they had been tried by the Spaniards on a charge of piracy, and condemned to lie in a dungeon for a term of years

71. Speaker, is it not worthy of notice that he closes even this spirited letter, with such a history of piracy and insult then on his desk before him, by quitting the ground he had taken in his letter of the fifth of June, and, instead of a proposed renewal of the non-intercourse against England, if she should neglect to withdraw her Orders in Council, which was the only ground taken by the President with Mr

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72. Congress, at their first session, made provision for the punishment of offenders charged with murder, piracy, &c

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73. No sooner had these nations ceased to confine their naval strength to their maritime defence at home, to the protection of their seacoast, than they were engaged in plunder, piracy, depredations upon other nations, or involved in wars, which certainly accelerated, if it did not produce, the downfall and destruction of those governments

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74. National piracy is about to be exterminated, and all nations permitted to traverse their great highway in safety

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