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Перевод: brigandage

[существительное]
разбой ; бандитизм

Тезаурус:

1. In such a society, as in southern Italy, the stronger spirits took to brigandage or smuggling and became the epic heroes of a depressed race.
2. It frequently approximated to brigandage when large areas were laid under irregular taxation.
3. The form of "unofficial" war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery, but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all, of necessity, men of criminal background or low degree.
4. These are the words of international brigandage.
5. It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years - from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission - all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage, destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s.
6. In real life the distinction between sheer brigandage and patriotic guerrilla activities was often blurred.
7. In and around Addis Ababa murder, brigandage and highway robbery increased alarmingly; in restoring order, public hangings, floggings and mutilations had little effect.
8. It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour, while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society.
9. At worst, the cadet and bastard sons sought occupation and profit in brigandage.
10. Favourites, reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king's government or in public order; indeed, the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage.
11. They could not provide for them from their own resources, he alleged, and hence resorted to war, pillage and brigandage in order to sustain their followings.