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Example sentences for: raiding

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During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.
With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.
In 1946, the AFL-CIO launched "Operation Dixie," an abortive attempt to organize the entire region, but it collapsed when unions proved more interested in raiding other unions for members than in organizing new workers.
This is on a par with the attribution of leave me be to a Celtic origin having something to do with a warning against raiding hives or the ascription of the origin of the name of an obscene prosthetic device to a woman from Water Isle (the Duchess d'Île d'eau ).
With poverty down, politicians are raiding food-stamp surpluses for extra cash.