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How to use the word LOOTING in a Sentence?

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My estimate is about 100,000. It’s going to be havoc, you can’t just think about the direct impact of the shaking, you must also think about what will follow the shaking. There will be looting, fires, epidemics. It’s going to be terrible.

Celal Sengor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is horrible that while residents of our community have died in this storm that people are out looting.

Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
1 year ago

Jose Alba has our full support, new York City is in crisis and at this point we are just fed up with people robbing, looting, attacking, assaulting, killing our small business owners.

Fernando Mateo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Reliance share price is likely to close @ Rs.2400 today and most probably tomorrow it will open @ Rs.2375. Still traders have opportunity to come out of all shares as companies are in spree of looting public money invested in stock market. The more people invest in shares, the more the stock price will plunge down

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
2 years ago

Traders can be often heard saying that whenever they put price for BUY shares it starts falling and when it is done for SELL shares the price gets rising. It is all because of artificial intelligence AI powered Broker's web trading platform which is configured for looting traders money

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
2 years ago

Bxatxard SBI Securities web trading platform has started hanging and jamming since 2:30 today as intraday closing time is approaching. As everyday almost by most brokers, disruption in service by them means market abruption on cards and thus looting their traders

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
2 years ago

Tomorrow the India stock market is most likely to open further Rs.5 down of each Rs.100 worth shares and decling trend is likely to continue till June end month. Brokerage houses will continue to prohibit the entry of sell price and play spoilsport as companies have started looting invested money of public in share market

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
2 years ago

T+2 trading norm means looting public investors money by companies through stock exchange with the help of regulators. Why can't shares be delivered immediately and why purchased shares are kept withhold by exchange

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
2 years ago

They thought they could just drive on the streets and go through. That they would be greeted as though it's alright to come here, maybe they think it is normal to drive around looting, to destroy buildings and to mock people.

Valery Spichek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The small-scale theft of food escalated into mass looting of warehouses across Kombolcha in recent days, reportedly by elements of the Tigrayan forces and some members of the local population, such harassment of humanitarian staff by armed forces is unacceptable. It undermines the ability of the United Nations and all of our humanitarian partners to deliver assistance when it is most needed.

Stephane Dujarric

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I guarantee you the vast majority of the people involved in the rioting and looting couldn't point China or Taiwan out on a map, they were there as opportunists because they have had very limited economic opportunity. It's a very poor country with high youth unemployment, and this just shows how quickly these things can spiral out of control in a country that's volatile.

Jonathan Pryke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This seems like it's an organized smash and grab robbery. This doesn't seem like looting. We're thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed, and folks often may be on their own.

Martin Reynolds

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let the evidence show what the evidence shows -- that any or one of these people were engaged in arson, rioting or looting, then I'm not going to tell the defense they can't call them that.

Judge Schroeder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think I'm inclined toward prior restraint, let the evidence show what the evidence shows. And if the evidence shows that any or more than one of these people were engaged in arson, rioting or looting, then I'm not going to tell the defense they can't call them that.

Kenosha County

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is shocking how people are being fooled by doctors in the name of dengue and looting ordinary mass. Asking patients to eat dragon fruit and kiwi only and still people doubts physicians. Fake blood reports are prepared to fleece money It is shocking how people are being fooled by doctors in the name of dengue and looting ordinary mass. Asking patients to eat dragon fruit and kiwi only and still people do not doubt physicians. Fake blood reports are prepared to fleece money

Martin Chaknueve

added by martin_98chinfga
2 years ago

It is shocking how people are being fooled by doctors in the name of dengue and looting ordinary mass. Asking patients to eat dragon fruit and kiwi only and still people doubts physicians. Fake blood reports are prepared to fleece money

Martin Chaknueve

added by martin_98chinfga
2 years ago

My directive has been very clear : ‘ Lock ’em up. ’ We will not tolerate it, and we have not tolerated it, so we have apprehended those individuals associated with the looting that we have been able to identify.

LaToya Cantrell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We used the National Guard in the civil unrest period to secure areas that needed to be secured from looting and burning, and it freed up the police to do other things, but to send in the National Guard and a troop carrier into a neighborhood in Philadelphia, to me, is not respectful to that neighborhood, number one. Number two, they are not capable or trained to do urban policing, or do policing of any kind.

Mayor Kenney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police, it gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also, it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about – that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.

Vicky Osterweil

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are going to review the contracts. Enough looting of my people.

Pedro Castillo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

While Democrats seized on Mr. Floyd’s death last May to highlight racism in policing and other forms of social injustice, Republicans responded to a summer of protests by proposing a raft of punitive new measures governing the right to lawfully assemble, some, like [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis, are labeling them ‘anti-riot’ bills, conflating the right to peaceful protest with the rioting and looting that sometimes resulted from such protests.

The New York Times

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Some, like [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis, are labeling them ‘anti-riot’ bills, conflating the right to peaceful protest with the rioting and looting that sometimes resulted from such protests.

The New York Times

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Regardless of the TPLF propaganda of exaggeration, any soldier responsible for raping our women looting communities in the region will be held accountable as their mission is to protect.

Abiy Ahmed

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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