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Examples of raid

raid
Initially, at least, the situation created by the raids provided new fields of activity for party agencies.
After a club or bar had been raided officers subjected the floor, cloakroom, and furniture to meticulous scrutiny.
However, as the air raids intensified, the desire to stay in close contact with family grew stronger.
Thus began the first influx of weaponry more lethal than the spears which had previously served as instruments of hunting and raiding.
Many of those who remained sought permanent shelter in the air raid bunkers.
He writes (p. 30) about the revenue from the mines being raided as a consequence.
In 1943 raids became significantly more frequent and intense, with thousands of people regularly being rendered homeless by single raids.
There were, however, many areas that were regularly raided and somehow survived.
The 1890s were a period of devastating drought and epidemic, triggering a surge of raiding to reconstitute the herds.
As a result, unnoticed cinders smoldering from our previous week's raid at another munitions plant will burn that one to the ground.
By the outbreak of war, only limited preparations had been made for the protection of the civilian population from the impact of air raids.
Ngoreme elders set a much earlier date for their participation in raiding (c. 1880).
Others were seized in raids and reworked for the corso or broken up for their wood.
The town itself was reduced to rubble by rockets and air raids.
Preservation of a precarious order, limiting cattle raiding and controlling the ivory trade were the primary goals.
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