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That the depredations of the ruling classes were mostly responsible for the uprising of the bagaudae was not lost on the fifth-century writer of historicised polemic, Salvian ; setting himself in the treatise De gubernatione Dei the task of proving God's constant guidance, he declares in book iii that the misery of the Roman world is all due to the neglect of God's commandments and the terrible sins of every class of society.
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The FARC say they represent the poor people of rural Colombia against the economic depredations of the ruling bourgeoisie ; the political influence of the U. S. in the internal affairs of Colombia ( i. e. Plan Colombia ); neo-imperialism ; the monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations ; and the repressive violence from Colombian state and paramilitary forces against the civilian population.
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Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.
His actual depredations on the high seas, whether piratical or not, were both less destructive and less lucrative than those of many other contemporary pirates and privateers.
Life, liberty, and property were hourly exposed to the insults and depredations of the riotous and lawless.
Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids.
Citizens were unable to distinguish between reservation and non-reservation tribes, blaming Comanche and Kiowa depredations on the reservation Indians.
Citizens were unable to distinguish between reservation and non-reservation tribes, blaming Comanche and Kiowa depredations on the reservation Indians.
Stev mislead Ross and his crew that he and his people were the last survivors of the colony, thanks to the depredations of Thread.
The depredations against the Indians that De las Casas had described, were compared to the depredations of Alba and his successors in the Netherlands.
In the time of the later Roman Empire bagaudae ( also spelled bacaudae ) were groups of peasant insurgents who emerged during the " Crisis of the Third Century ", and persisted particularly in the less-Romanised areas of Gallia and Hispania, where they were " exposed to the depredations of the late Roman state, and the great landowners and clerics who were its servants ".
It was made clear to them that these depredations would continue until the men responsible for the murder of Völkner were captured or surrendered.
Following the depredations of the Viking invasions of the 9th century, most English monasteries had ceased to function and the cathedrals were typically served by small communities of married priests.
Both officers were later assigned to New Mexico, where in 1860 Canby coordinated a campaign against the Navaho, commanding Sibley in a futile attempt to capture and punish Navajo for " depredations " against the livestock of settlers.
Monastic chroniclers often deplore depredations made by foreign armies and sometimes even those of their own rulers but some Scots forces were going beyond normal Norman ' harrying ' by systematically carrying off women and children as slaves.
In January 1796, David Collins wrote that ' several attempts had been made to ascertain the number of arms in the possession of individuals, as many were feared to be in the hands of those who committed depredations ; the crown recalled between two and three hundred stands of arms, but not 50 stands were accounted for '.
" by reason of wars and other calamities in the past divers homicides, depredations and other ills were perpetrated so that some strong men of the familiars of the Abbot and convent were slain by pirates and sea rovers and divers farmers and inhabitants of the island were afraid to reside there ".
Sulla's depredations on Greek works of art were notorious.
As a result of these depredations, the whole villages in the eastern part of the island including Pola were destroyed and as such, abandoned by some of the inhabitants.
By 1874, the Texas Rangers were re-established, and were a factor in controlling the depredations.
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* Piyahgonte ( Pi-yah-gon-te, Yavapai-Tonto-Apache leader in the 1860s and 1870s, with his band of about 75 people he was living along both sides of the upper East Verde River north to the Mogollon Rim, he was believed to be responsible for the most of the depredations around Prescott )
This was some of the most important work of his life, and he was largely responsible for easing the troubles and the depredations of the Border Reivers.
Under Mamantun, a great force of outlaws became established at rancherias and were responsible for terrible depredations throughout the district.
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" In Lockean terms, depredations against an estate are just as plausible a justification for resistance and revolution as are those against persons.
The McDuck family ( except for a few family ghosts ) vacated the castle in 1675, relocating to MacDuich, and later to Glasgow due to the depredations of " a monstrous devil dog.
In 1492, John II dispatched Vasco 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.
These defeats progressively led to disenchantment of the population with the regime, that already was in an awkward position because it was also brushed with the tar of the depredations of the French " sister republic " that mainly viewed the Batavian Republic as a milch cow, both collectively ( in its demands for loans at very low interest rates ) and individually ( in the demands of French officials for bribes and other extortions ).
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.
On the island of Lundy the number has decreased dramatically in recent years ( the 2005 breeding population was estimated to be only two or three pairs ) as a consequence of depredations by black rats ( recently eliminated ) and possibly also as a result of commercial fishing for sand eels, the puffins ' principal prey.
His bills would provide compensation for persons who had suffered from the depredations of Indian raids, and would further the process of removing the aborigines from the state.
Loyalty to a feeble or distant monarch and reliance on the effectiveness of the law usually made people a target for depredations rather than conferring any security.
After the Breaking of the World, the Aiel, like all people, wandered the land looking for safe refuge from the depredations of the insane male channelers ; this brought the Aiel to the Three-fold Land in the first place, and the Aes Sedai who accompanied them.
Leon Wieseltier attacked Feldman for the dishonesty of " exposing the depredations " of Orthodox Jewish law while praising sharia as " bold and noble ," and called Feldman's essay a " pathetic whine ".
Runnels however received most of the blame for continuing frontier depredations while Houston had regained his popularity.
In it he proclaims the depredations of the " Danes " ( who were, at that point, primarily Norwegian invaders ) a scourge from God to lash the English for their sins.
Similar depredations under Wallace continued the next year and led to calls for reprisals from the English.
More complete name is: " A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations and establishing of peace in America: between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain: concluded at Madrid the 8th / 18 day of July in the year of our Lord, 1670 "
Those management goals included: "… securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of the citizens of the United States ", protection of the forests from destruction by fire and depredations, and development of mineral resources, among other provisions.
USFWS 50 CFR 21. 43 ( Depredation order for blackbirds, cowbirds, grackles, crows and magpies ) states that a Federal permit is not required to control these birds " when found committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers and manner as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance ," provided that
On 2 June 1814, Sir George Prévost, Governor General of The Canadas, had written to Cochrane at Admiralty House, in Bailey's Bay, Bermuda, calling for a retaliation against American depredations against non-combatant civilians and private property, as such acts at the time were considered to be against the laws of war.
Originally most of their lives were spent in the field: cultivating, harvesting and guarding their fields from the depredations of wild animals, or otherwise they were either waging war or hunting for game.
Not being appreciated as a songbird, the Great Kiskadee is not usually kept caged and therefore has escaped the depredations of poaching for the pet trade.
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