(1) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(3) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
(4) For two decades, bandits and kidnappers have kept out the tourists who used to flock to the temple of the queen, while the desert hinterland has become a haven for jihadis and militants of various stripes.
(5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
(6) If it becomes a sanctuary for terrorists, narcotics traffickers, jihadists and bandits, our neighbours will be affected too.
(7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(8) Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne’s Rather Be is currently top of its chart, having been streamed 32m times in the UK in the first nine months of 2014, putting it ahead of the 30m streams of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.
(9) It is an occasionally dangerous, always beautiful place, rich in history and tradition, often presented in the news media as bandit country.
(10) Bandits have taken over.” In the sanatorium kitchen volunteers were making lunch.
(11) Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for aid workers, al-Shabaab, pirates and bandits have all targeted aid workers in recent months with kidnappings and shootings.
(12) Idon't know why they call him Bandit; I hope it's just because he's fun.
(13) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
(14) And having had Clean Bandit over to my home for an intimate after party after seeing them perform live in Miami, I have to say that I couldn’t wish more happiness and success to such a lovely, talented group of people.
(15) Aid officials and residents say Dadaab is becoming more dangerous as bandits kill, rape and steal, and Islamic militants target civilians and Kenyan security forces with bombs and shootings.
(16) Without impostors, nationalists and bandits, without tanks and APCs, and without secret visits of the director of the CIA … UPDATE: Medvedev again warned of civil war in Ukraine after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan, Reuters reports: Medvedev said on Tuesday he hoped that the authorities in the Ukrainian capital have "enough brains" to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in the east of the country.
(17) The war in Chechnya ended, bandits disappeared from the streets and both the existential and economic despair of the Soviet collapse began to ease.
(18) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
(19) They say they are ready to defend Crimea against all unwanted intrusions, namely western authorities and the new administration in Kiev, seen by many in the region as bandits and terrorists who seized power illegally.
(20) He looks like a Canadian mountie who has just arrested some robot time bandits at the border.
Brigand
Definition:
(n.) A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
(n.) A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except that, in Loznitsa's version, the wizard is a disgraced former soldier, the siren a child prostitute and the trolls a trio of gnarled brigands who cook potatoes at a forest campfire and cudgel anyone who draws too close.
(2) Also refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) war and armed brigands from the CAR's Seleka and opposition groups are establishing bases in the region."
(3) The United Nations assembled a new peacekeeping force, and the RUF fighters, along with the other disparate groups of militia brigands, were supposed to integrate with the national army.
(4) Ovsanna remembers being worried about the young girls who were kidnapped by the brigands who served as auxiliaries of the Ottoman army.
(5) Their treatment has made considerable progress since the report of J. Dor and H. Le Brigand in 1960.