(1) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
(2) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(3) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
(4) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam’s Meat Market & More employee Steve Sumad surveys damage caused by looters.
(6) At the beginning he named us ‘terrorists’ and ‘looters’.
(7) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
(8) Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear, some holding assault rifles, started filing in more than two hours before midnight, lining the street and guarding store fronts from potential looters.
(9) Occasionally, French and African peacekeepers entered the neighbourhood and fired in the air to disperse the looters, but they usually quickly returned as the peacekeepers were leaving."
(10) The prime minister's remarks were less abrasive than his comments earlier this week when he branded his critics as looters and fringe extremists.
(11) With Iraqi police still absent from their posts - those at the museum fled as the looters arrived - the US remains the only potential policing presence in the city.
(12) He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community."
(13) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(14) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
(15) Soldiers intervened to stop looters at a huge supermarket in Ariana, 20 miles north of the capital, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
(16) A female officer – part of a small team of mostly community support officers with no riot kit or training, who successfully defended local shop owners against looters – admitted to feeling fear before going on duty and said: "My dad had to talk me into it."
(17) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
(18) The looters sabotaged not just property but the community’s peaceful protests, he said.
(19) With no intervention from police at all, and looters in control of the area for around three hours, it was left to residents to intervene.
(20) Fosso's housekeeper was still there trying to protect the house and studio from looters.
Loser
Definition:
(n.) One who loses.
Example Sentences:
(1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
(2) Instead he stood there as the only prime minister in the room – and the one great loser was the man who wasn’t there.
(3) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(4) The victims of violence in 2007-08 are the losers."
(5) Our economic system has always required winners and losers.
(6) While the loser of an election is sometimes viewed as the leader of the out-of-power party, Clinton, at 69, is not positioned to make a third run for the White House and no longer sits atop a money-filled political organization.
(7) Longitudinal analyses including (a) comparisons of risk factor changes in subjects grouped as fitness "losers", "stable", "small gain", and "large gain", and (b) multiple regression analyses of relationships between fitness change and risk factor changes showed that fitness change was largely unrelated to risk factor changes.
(8) While this one will not go down as a comparable game-changer, it will at least change the growing perception of Romney as a loser, even if only temporarily.
(9) Toronto Cheapest for salmon Pricey for almost everything else Canada's biggest city came out the surprise loser in our survey, with our basket of goods costing 40% more in Toronto than in Berlin.
(10) The big symbolic loser is the Times, down 14.2% year on year: it has dropped back below 500,000, and is heading for the sort of sale it used to command before its long, expensive price war with the Telegraph.
(11) The biggest loser could be the state-owned oil company Rosneft, which bought Yukos assets in auctions when the latter's stock was almost worthless.
(12) Data indicated that the winners more nearly approximated their predicted weight than did the losers.
(13) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(14) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(15) Only last month the Financial Conduct Authority issued a report in which it said millions of older people were getting a poor deal from Britain's multibillion-pound annuity market, with the biggest losers those with the least money put aside for their retirement.
(16) We will take care of each individual customer who is affected.” VW scandal: the winners and losers, from carmakers to car owners Read more VW said overall sales were down 1.5% in Europe in October, but rose 6.8% in North America and were up 1.6% in China.
(17) One of the biggest losers are the estimated 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the US, most of whom play an integral role in the economy, doing menial jobs that citizens do not want.
(18) The balance studies included not only urine and fecal loss but also skin, menstrual and hair losers.
(19) The most recent polling shows that backing the full replacement of Trident is not necessarily a vote winner, nor is opposing it necessarily a vote loser.
(20) The greatest loser is France, outcompeted by Germany within the eurozone, with poor growth prospects, large deficits, and its welfare system under strain.