How To Use Buccaneering In A Sentence
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Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers.
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So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a buccaneering, inspirational left-back, he displaced Kenny Sansom in the England team and went on to make 78 international appearances between 1987 and 2000.
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But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine.
Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch
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If a new commission fails to bring order to the buccaneering world of tuna fishing, say sayonara to tuna sushi.
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For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
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Maschler was the buccaneering young publisher who revitalised Jonathan Cape.
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The following year he won it in buccaneering fashion, forcing Schumacher to attempt to drive him off the road in the final race.
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There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element, in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal.
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A buccaneering businessman and politician, he built up an impressive empire of railway interests, and if he did not create a large part of the network as George Hudson did, he certainly sustained his interest in it for far longer.
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This year, however, a new international organisation called the Tuna Commission will try to bring order to the often buccaneering world of high-seas tuna fishing.
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So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone.
The Sun
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Historically the territory of bullfighters, bandits, guerrillas and smugglers, this rocky region was doubtless seen by Welles as more akin to his buccaneering spirit than some genteel churchyard.
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Skipper Robbie Casey is back to form, got up and down the park in his usual buccaneering manner, fired in plenty of solid tackles and in general led the team well.
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Like many other impecunious Caribbean drifters at the time, Dampier slipped into a life of freebooting and buccaneering, hopping from ship to ship, raiding Spanish vessels and towns.
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The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone.
The Sun
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So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures -- discreditable, that is, from the buccaneering point of view -- of which Captain Blood had been guilty.
Captain Blood
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Perhaps the deals did not suit the buccaneering English style.
Times, Sunday Times
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RBS recovers in, what, three to five years, it's not going to be the same kind of buccaneering, high-risk enterprise it has been for the past decade. ndm
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech.
Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen
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So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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In a vintage season for strikers, no one has been better than the buccaneering Dutchman, who has shown it is perfectly possible to come back from a serious knee injury and flourish in the most physically demanding league in Europe.
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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India.
India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report
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The new President is a big fan of our buccaneering desire to go it alone.
The Sun
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There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element, in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal.
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An Australian who was a pioneer of aerial reconnaissance flew daring spy flights over Nazi Germany before World War II, but a buccaneering attitude led to his fall from favour, writes Jeff Watson.
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Following the voyage by Vasco da Gama in 1497-9, round the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut and safely back to Lisbon, the Portuguese set about their entry into the spice trade with a buccaneering zest from which other nations quickly learned.
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The welfare of children is the highest good yet the Cardinal's buccaneering action was in many ways counter-productive.
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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Basel cannot be described as buccaneering it took a long time before they were pinned down and United were indifferent in midfield.
Basel 2-1 Manchester United | Champions League Group C match report
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You don't have the buccaneering spirit that you had when studio heads were willing to take chances.
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In a scathing attack on the minister's record, Richard said a buccaneering approach to managing the national finances had destroyed the confidence which was the vital component in Ireland's economic success.
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And we are admirers of his buccaneering, entrepreneurial style.
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Joss liked good clothes and he wore them well, but nothing could totally disguise what her grandfather had described as his buccaneering quality; that arrogant maleness that no amount of city suiting could tame.
Lovers Touch
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It was Wisconsin which, in an age of buccaneering capitalism, produced those caring and socially sensitive politicians, the La Follettes, father and son.
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We are trying very much as Britain did in the early 1980's to rediscover our buccaneering past.
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Vladimir Potanin was a buccaneering businessman who quit his job in the foreign ministry and within a few years built a small trading company into one of Russia's leading banks.
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Navy renegades upstaged it with a buccaneering March landing on South Georgia, in direct contravention of orders.
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The Heseltines came later, as raiders from the Scottish borders in the 18th century - which might have some bearing on the buccaneering side to Robert's character.
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NATO gives a "multilateralist" fig leaf to brutal buccaneering expeditions.
People's Weekly World Blog
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Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester.
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