Word Finder - raiders

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One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.

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A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.

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A special forces operative; a commando.

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A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.

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A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.

Jameson and the other raiders were handed over to the British government for punishment.

The Basuto acquired an unenviable notoriety as a race of bold cattle lifters and raiders, and the emigrant Boers found them extremely troublesome neighbours.

They merely clung to their homesteads, and harboured a natural resentment against the raiders who had dispossessed them.

Their reputation as raiders is sufficiently shown in the division of the tribe into two clans, the Hazari-khoas or "eaters of a thousand hearths," and the Kapah-chors or "thieves that lurk in the cotton fields."

These were traversed on the 16th of November and the raiders passed on to Bethulie capturing Dewetsdorp and 500 men en route.

Calah was burned thou h the stron walls g YP, g g of Nineveh protected the relics of the Assyrian army which had taken refuge behind them; and when the raiders had passed on to other fields of booty, a new palace was erected among the ruins of the neighbouring city.

The social and political structure of the Dorian states of Peloponnese presupposes likewise a conquest of an older highly civilized population by small bands of comparatively barbarous raiders.

He succeeded in driving the raiders away, rebuilt the walls, and during the fifty-eight years of his episcopate the town grew and prospered.

Obliged, for fear of the Tatars, to go about with arms in their hands, these settlers gradually grew strong enough to raid their raiders, selling the booty thus acquired to the merchants of Muscovy and Poland.

The early settlers were often attacked by Indian raiders from what is now Tennessee or from the country north of the Ohio, but the work of colonization would have been far more difficult if those Indians had lived in the Kentucky region itself.

In the centuries that followed the break-up of the Roman empire it again suffered much from barbarian attacks, and was finally devastated in 889 by bands of Norse raiders who had sailed up the Rhine.

The Baggara are great hunters, and formerly were noted slave raiders.

The Nigerian emirs acquired, however, an evil reputation during the 19th century as slave raiders.

The Bell Tower, from which alarms were given when border raiders were observed, is in fair preservation.

In June Angus had prepared forces to punish the Border raiders, and James, rightly or wrongly, seems to have suspected that he was to be handed over bodily to his royal uncle.

Meanwhile, civil war had broken out in the provin.ces; Kurdish raiders had sacked many villages near Tabriz; Persian brigands had attacked the Russian frontier-guards on the borders of Transcaucasia, and the indemnity demanded by the tsars government was not paid until several Persian villages had been burned by Russian troops.

On reaching Ipoto on the Ituri he came within the region of the Arab slave raiders and ivory hunters, in whose company he at times travelled.

The raiders' turn came next, and the whole party, save the traitor Boccheciampe, were condemned to be shot, but in the case of eight of them the sentence was commuted to the galleys.

Uman was founded early in the 17th century as a fort against the Tatar raiders.

Edward the Elder spent twenty-five laborious years first in repelling and repaying Danish raids, then in setting to work to subdue the raiders.

Young women and children were then abducted as the preferred " booty " for the raiders.

They wore iron breastplates, a style later adopted by the northern raiders.

By the final buzzer, it was easy for the Raiders.

The raiders overran the Royalist gun emplacements and succeeded in hauling off several great siege cannon.

Some Roman coins have been found on the east coast of Ireland, brought no doubt by traders or raiders.

The raiders fled empty-handed, leaving the guard lying seriously injured in the street.

The Iron Age promontory fort is one of several along the Heritage coast, protecting a potential landing point from coastal raiders.

All poultry producers must take extra care to combat raiders who are quick to punish poor farmyard security, says the CLA.

Back at the match, the Raiders scored two touchdowns in the remaining minute to win.

The pele tower, built to shelter the family from the border raiders, dates from 1340.

These raiders left runic graffiti over much of the main chamber stones.

Lacrosse was originally played by Indian warriors and viking raiders as a preparation for war.

He's the man behind Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.

From the moment Dr. Henry Jones first hit the movie screen as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, movie fans flocked in droves to the game consoles every time a new Indiana video game release came out.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - This game was released in 1982 for the first home game console of all time, the Atari 2600.

This anthology offers a wide selection of these games, including Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede, BattleZone and Star Raiders.

To unlock special movie trailers from all four movies, collect three artifacts for Raiders of the Lost Ark, ten artifacts for Temple of Doom, 30 artifacts for The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and 24 artifacts for The Last Crusade.

Fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark will remember that Indy was armed with a pistol and a whip, which he used to escape from a group of bad guys in the market while he was in Cairo.

The cargo truck figure from Raiders of the Lost Ark includes hand and foot holds so that the child can position his or her action figures on it.

Indiana Jones is the daring action figure from the popular movies Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

A good film production example of this comes from another Spielberg film, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Raiders of the Lost Ark cast began filming this now classic movie in 1980 in La Rochelle, France.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first film in the Indiana Jones series.

The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull introduced Indiana Jones to a new generation, Harrison Ford and company began building its Indy fan base decades ago with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Raiders of the Lost Ark cast has changed a little bit over the years, but here are the main players of the first in the series of this hugely successful franchise.

Though he plays the role of excavator Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark, actor John Rhys-Davies is probably best known currently for his role of Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In Raiders, Sallah and Indy are old friends and Sallah's large family of nine children have a strong affinity toward Jones.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Harrison Ford stars in his first movie as archeologist Indiana Jones.

Hutchinson is from Orange County, California, and is a former Raiders cheerleader.

Harrison Ford, fresh from filming Raiders of the Lost Ark, stars as former Blade Runner Rick Decker.