The merchant refused to travel in the region due to the ongoing banditry. From LearnThat.org. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banditry]
Appaently, banditry is a common problem in some coastal areas of Michoacan and Guerrero. From Wordnik.com. [Top places along coast to live?] Reference
Something about the way he said the word "banditry" caught her attention; she pursued it like a cat does a mouse. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
The court convicted one man, Salambek Dzakhkiyev, of "banditry" and the other, Maksharip Khidriyev, of illegally transporting explosives. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty] Reference
His past and perhaps his present banditry puts him in that category. From Wordnik.com. [ALLEGED ARMING OF DISMISSED FORMER MK SOLDIERS FROM SANDF BY ITS LEADERS] Reference
There's widespread banditry, the suicide bombers that threaten everyone in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2003] Reference
Otherwise he would surely have sunk into thieving and banditry in order to live. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
We also intervened in Liberia when lawlessness and banditry seemed to take root. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the 26th Singapore Lecture, �Africa�s season of hope The dawn of a new Africa-Asia partnership�] Reference
Guardsmen resort to banditry to prey on the caravans they are meant to safeguard. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
We must maximise the cost of such acts of banditry to the perpetrators and their allies. From Wordnik.com. [ADVANCE TO NATIONAL DEMOCRACY] Reference
After all, Islamic law has zero tolerance for banditry, whether sea-based or land-based. From Wordnik.com. [Abukar Arman: Piracy, Geopolitics, and Private Security] Reference
The advisory cited "banditry, factional rivalry, and car jackings" in this "lawless area.". From Wordnik.com. [Showtime in the Sahara] Reference
Guerrilla war and banditry swept the country as rival military factions battled for control. From Wordnik.com. [In Latin America, History Goes on Trial] Reference
This was not the West as I had dreamed of it, not the West even of banditry and violent action. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
My manoeuvre in personnel banditry took some discreet handling and still almost blew up in my face. From Wordnik.com. [Thud Ridge]
Parts of China were indeed plagued by banditry, opium, rapacious warlords and Japanese imperialists. From Wordnik.com. [From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'] Reference
And the Fall lives on as one man's pension scheme and karaoke machine: tribute banditry at its very worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
We call upon the organizations and peoples of the whole world to protest against this act of international banditry. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Letters and Telegrams to the United Nations] Reference
Scattered across the arid plain, poor villagers escape the banditry and extortion only because they own nothing of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Man Against Nature is Man Against Man] Reference
Barre on 27 January 1991; the present political situation is one of anarchy, marked by inter-clan fighting and random banditry. From Wordnik.com. [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference
But in some areas, there are no vehicles and no people willing to work at the present time, because there's too much banditry. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2001] Reference
He recalled the days of banditry, and the strange visitors, who had brought with them disturbing knowledge, and strange powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
I was thinking Thelma & Louise with all of the goodness of Brad Pitt in his youthful prime and none of the banditry or suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Connors: The Green(er) Mile] Reference
But, once having mastered their wings, the Magenpies quickly mapped out the villa and then they were all set for their banditry. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Sudanese civil conflict, reducing tensions with Sudan arising from cross-border banditry; Chadian Aozou rebels reside in southern. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
This kind of barbarism -- looting, graverobbing, banditry, corpses floating through the streets -- isn't supposed to happen here. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bradley: Labor Daze] Reference
Health clinics are functioning, farmers are growing crops again and, in the countryside, banditry has been reduced to a minor problem. From Wordnik.com. [A Starring Role In 'The Fugitive'] Reference
They're like the inevitable little clots of diehards who head for the hills and degenerate into banditry and anarchy after a civil war. From Wordnik.com. [Top Dem Party Officials Send Sharply-Worded Email Demanding That Hillary Donors And Supporters Get Behind Obama] Reference
Mohamed SIAD Barre on 27 January 1991; the present political situation is one of anarchy, marked by interclan fighting and random banditry. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
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