Crime at sea

Usage examples of piracy.

Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.

The most fervent patriot must admit that the early voyages of Drake were, to put it mildly, of a buccaneering kind, although his late voyages were more nearly akin to privateering cruises than piracy.

When such retreats were available the laws against piracy did not reduce buccaneering so much as they depopulated Jamaica of its white inhabitants.

He plays the master-class game, backing smugglers like me, leveraged buyouts, corrupting politicians, software piracy, design piracyI bought the Sony flatscreen templates Event Horizon uses from him.

I believe I now comprehend, ealdor, why your King finds it so difficult to suppress piracy.

In the precision of harmonic structure, he hears his own conviction that the coding problem rests on a simple look-up tableat ever lower levels, a mechanism to explain cell growth, viral piracy, symbiotic coalition government of organs, the origin of species, phone impulses broken off in panic, inexplicable behavior late in the year, fitful inspiration, the continuous cold modal rapture in chords, in vivo.

It was only after the series of naval mutinies towards the end of the last European war that the ancient practice of piracy was resumed.

In the USA, the backlash against digital content piracy and plagiarism has reached preposterous legal, litigious and technological nadirs.

And while piracy is discussed freely and fought vigorously - the discussion of plagiarism is still taboo andactively suppressed by image-conscious and endowment-weary academic institutions and media.

And Rubella had just confirmed that the vigiles saw Cilicians as still involved in piracy.

At the conclusion of the war, De Graves returned to piracy, but his ship was wrecked in a storm close to Walmer Castle.

He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.

Her father was a Dutchman who had lived adventurously in and about the South Seas, indulging in barratry and piracy, and dying at last on the gibbet for murder.

They were also welcome, he had added, to suffer, apart from the injuries and the loss of blood they would incur in the process, the very heavy penalties which would be imposed by an international court of maritime law arising from charges ranging from assault, through piracy, to an act of war, which maritime court, captain Bullen had added pointedly, had its seat, not in Washington, D.

One of the ladies of his house at Deptford, to be revenged for some slight or other, gave information to the watch, and Kennedy was imprisoned at Marshalsea and afterwards tried for robbery and piracy.