What is "predations"

Usage examples of "predations".

My failure to subject her uncompromisingly to the predations of my mastery would be certain to generate suspicion.

I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two flees, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs, would then become theirs, subject to their predations or levied tributes as they saw fit.

I thought it as safe a place as anywhere from the predations of the monsters of this Age.

I am not much of a botanist but now I saw that the forest was like a great machine designed to survive the predations of such a Storm as this, far better than man's crude constructions.

Through the lengthening days of spring she had guarded twice ten thousand people from the predations of the Dark-dreamer.

Had he known at the time whom he recovered from the predations of forest bandits, he might never have found the courage to offer the shelter that had succoured the heir of Ivain.

They saw me as someone who could be a brake on the predations of the underworld here, but they forgot the Emperor himself had seen me as a rival for power once upon a time.

Warlord Zsinj's predations on a bacta convoy had dealt the public's belief in the government a serious blow from which they would attempt to recover by sending a task force under Han Solo's leadership to kill Zsinj.

Ancient law and custom decreed them free even of the predations of tax collectors, those bandits legitimized by stealing for the king.

All for the sake of salvaging a rockpile in the middle of nowhere, a rockpile that protects a godforsaken wasteland, inhabited only by barbarians, from the predations of bandits whose mercies the land most assuredly deserves.

With a strong and constant demand for slaves from the colonies to the south, their seasonal predations on Shawnee, Tuscarora, Southern Cherokee, and Eastern Chickasaw clans and tribes had not only fattened their Cuban accounts, but had allowed them to clear more lands, bring in more colonists, and begin thus to produce more grain and suchlike than was needed by the settlements, this giving them other exports than slaves, furs, hides, timber and other natural products.