Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint. |
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Evening Press readers are rallying round a war widow who was robbed of her life savings by a heartless conwoman. |
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Farnworth were robbed of their big chance to gain ground on Egerton when their head-to-head was washed out on Saturday. |
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He robbed a car of children's Christmas presents because he was terrified of the guy who put him up to it. |
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Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel. |
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A gang of drunken youths robbed a woman and attacked passers-by when they went on the rampage in the centre of York. |
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Firing machine guns, they robbed the hotel's jewellery store just as it was being closed. |
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True, many individuals and groups justly received land or compensation for that of which they had been robbed by previous governments. |
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I was robbed of my walk today, kept indoors by a steady, rather unpleasant rain. |
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He's ticked off because he's being robbed and humiliated right now, kept down by poverty and the lack of a level playing field. |
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A gun was held to a teenage girl's neck by a mugger who robbed her of her mobile phone. |
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Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol. |
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It then went into receivership and as a result he was robbed of his pension. |
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Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia. |
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A motorist who stopped in a lay-by was hit over the head with a bottle and robbed. |
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He was knocked unconscious and robbed in a vicious attack near Trowbridge Park. |
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Trust me, if you dine here and you feel the portion was too small, you wuz robbed! |
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England should not have stood by and seen a feeble people robbed without raising a note of remonstrance. |
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A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg. |
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The original Thugs were bands of roving criminals in India who strangled and robbed travellers. |
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He promises to repay the robbed travellers, and undertakes to obtain Sir John a place in the King's army during the impending civil war. |
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Well I almost robbed a bank and in the process my brother was killed and I took a man's life. |
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Police yesterday launched a massive hunt for a thug who robbed a terrified pub landlady at gunpoint. |
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He was robbed twice of the money donated by those who were moved by his cause. |
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The audience assumes that the bank will now be robbed and that will be it, but the Director has other ideas. |
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Police are searching for witnesses after a man was robbed at knifepoint in a Swindon park. |
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Our local convenience store is robbed so often the staff seem to expect it. |
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Police are hunting a man after a woman was robbed at gunpoint in a Bradford subway. |
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A teenager was today nursing a suspected broken nose after he was beaten and robbed by a car gang. |
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From April to November 2001, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in London rose 53 percent. |
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Recently, too, a person was attacked and robbed in daylight on a Dublin street. |
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The post office has been robbed twice before, the last time just four weeks ago. |
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However big the reparation they receive, it will never replace what they have been robbed of. |
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The death of Alfred Schnittke in 1998 robbed the world of one of its most distinctive symphonists. |
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The generals felt they were about to be robbed of their victory and, worse, their honor. |
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A grassroots vote-buying culture has also robbed the people of their right to elect the wise and the able. |
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Overjoyed members of Ward's family said he had been robbed of six years of his life after the short hearing concluded. |
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Average life expectancy has sunk dramatically and young people have been robbed of any chance to find a reasonable job. |
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I would be heartbroken if I were to win an Oscar and yet be robbed of this moment. |
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Today the elderly are often ignored, while the young are robbed of a carefree childhood. |
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A glut of injuries, all at the one time, robbed us of most of our key players. |
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Robson had robbed David Lilley of the ball and just managed to fend off the Kilmarnock defenders. |
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Brentford's other goals came from Stephen Hunt and Ben May, who robbed Tabb of a possible hat-trick by converting his on-target shot. |
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A man is receiving hospital treatment after he armed himself with a kitchen knife and robbed a Clacton chemist. |
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Some of the ashlars, including those on either side of the doors, were found to have been robbed out. |
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Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans. |
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They were given safe conducts though inevitably numbers were set upon and robbed. |
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A taxi driver was beaten and robbed by three men who then took off in his car. |
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Rather than be robbed twice, first by the crooks and then by the police, he decided to get a motorbike taxi home and cut his losses. |
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Have the pickers of the tea leaves have been paid a fair price or are they being robbed by the global trading system? |
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Physically he was back to his best, but Jackson still insists the mental scars of that summer robbed him of a metre. |
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Police have appealed for help in tracing two men who robbed two teenagers after talking to them. |
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A man with a collapsed spine has been robbed of his mobility after thieves stole his electric scooter. |
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The apothecary, Harold, was robbed of some herbs and balms, as I am sure you know. |
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Both the declared victor and the man who says fraud robbed him of victory are coming face to face today. |
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A miracle-worker who virtually robbed Peter to pay Paul, she'd get things on tick and then save to pay people back. |
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He said the service station had been robbed several times in the past and that business people were under attack. |
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Ryu loses his job, is robbed of his severance pay and has one of his kidneys removed without his knowledge. |
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Superb play from Ballack, who robbed Fabregas and then touched the ball past him to earn a time-wasting free-kick. |
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He was robbed in his last two fights, but I still think he's one of the top super middleweights. |
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I walked down the road, trying not to look like I'd been attacked, robbed and dropped on the other side of the city minus my short term memory. |
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Mrs Gallagher was punched and robbed in a daytime attack just a short walk from her home at a sheltered housing complex in Undercliffe. |
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I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future. |
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Frank Laporte was robbed of a home run by a bleacherite, who knocked the ball down as it was soaring into the left-field bleachers. |
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Getting robbed of precious muscle growth is a bodybuilder's worst nightmare. |
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When the Manchester Evening News delivery boy found that a pensioner on his round had been robbed he decided to cheer her up. |
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Eventually convicted, he broke out of jail and formed the Stander Gang, which sometimes robbed four banks a day. |
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Last year, 10,000 mobiles were stolen and two-thirds of those were nicked or robbed from kids. |
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The defeat robbed the 38-year-old Sowetan of his dream of becoming the first South African to become a four-time world champion. |
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Once again, he proved that age and disease have not robbed him of the magic to cast a spell on listeners with his poems. |
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He has been robbed even of the ability to chew, so a nurse must spoon-feed him every meal. |
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Robbed I was, robbed of my rightful position in life of oil magnate and squillionaire at the tender age of five. |
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I feel robbed at not having the chance of sitting in the gods humming along with the line quoted below. |
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Two robbers claiming to be armed with knives robbed a jewellery store stealing handfuls of expensive chains and rings. |
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The 48-year-old was also robbed in the latest attack known as happy slapping, where victims are assaulted to amuse thugs who film it on mobiles. |
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Before I went down the carabinero explained that the mine up the road about 20 k had had one of its sheds robbed of dynamite. |
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He had robbed deliverymen three times over the previous week, sticking them up with a realistic-looking pellet gun. |
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A local businessman claims he was assaulted and robbed by cellmates in the police holding cells here on New Year's day. |
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She told how she heard her daughter cry out as she was attacked and robbed of her mobile phone. |
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My husband heard the shouts over the phone and called the police when he realised I was being robbed. |
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Stories of people being robbed for their trainers emerged with those red and black high-tops. |
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But the Flaxby Road outfit have been hit by a horrendous injury list that has robbed them of six first team players. |
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His cancer was diagnosed in 1997 and since then a sequence of operations has robbed him not only of his voice but the ability to swallow food. |
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When he robbed a convenience store, he never returned to rob that store twice. |
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On a hunch, the two cops head over anyway to discover that the warehouse is indeed being robbed. |
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He reported personally witnessing at least 20 cases where soldiers had beaten or robbed civilians at checkpoints. |
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The expression of patriarchy through male-surname dominance has robbed millions of women of their name identity. |
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They had already robbed a filling station and rammed a Garda patrol car before the single vehicle accident. |
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His eyes glazed over and he crumpled in the chair like a God robbed of ichor. |
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He said the thieves repeatedly robbed the mail drops until they had enough identification to create new identities for themselves. |
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A young couple were robbed by thugs who clubbed the boyfriend with a wooden pole. |
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The element of decision had gone, and it was this sense of helpless inability to influence events that robbed me of courage. |
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Thorpe has been robbed of a chance to defend his 400m freestyle title in Athens after being disqualified for a false start. |
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However, it was a cruel twist of fate that robbed him yet again of a sprint race win and, therefore, of an Irish double. |
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You cannot expect people to feather-bed these public sector employees while being robbed blind by spendthrift councils and Government taxes. |
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Fortunately, they remember that Karl had been robbed shortly before his death by a fetching young mechanic, Rudolf. |
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Nice, that is, until four loose criminals with submachine guns burst into the prison, overpowered the guards, and robbed their fellow cons. |
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Long-term injury to Garry O'Connor robbed them of one of Scottish football's most instinctive finishers. |
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The flaw, and it is a fatal one, is that Jack has been robbed of more than his innocence, he's been robbed of his interestingness. |
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Two sisters were arrested after inadvertently pocket-dialing the hotel they had allegedly just robbed. |
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He was robbed of what looked a certain goal when he moved in from the point was stopped by a big block. |
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More than 95 percent of the mature Fraser firs in the park are dead, robbed of their lifeblood and poisoned by a toxin injected by the adelgid. |
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I was a child of the suburbs, I felt cheated and robbed of my birthright of ease and pleasure. |
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A man was dragged into a dark car park in Southend town centre and robbed at knifepoint by two thugs. |
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's untimely death in 1997 robbed Pakistan of an immense talent and world music of one of its twin godheads. |
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Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing. |
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The rum-shop and grocery that stood on the diametrical axis, across Old St Joseph Road from our front-bedroom, was frequently robbed. |
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I went to grad school, a move that both ended my ride on the industry gravy train and robbed me of disposable income for a number of years. |
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They lost their jobs, were robbed of all dignity, and yet still soldiered on to achieve great things that were often ignored by history books because of their lifestyle. |
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All I said was that, if the he was hit with an injury crisis that robbed him of all his strikers and so came to me to fill-in for one game, I wouldn't say no. |
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The gunmen robbed the EU delegation at gunpoint before shooting at passing cars and making their escape. |
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When a tourist gets robbed in Madrid that doesn't make the papers. |
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They have robbed us of a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. |
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Politicians robbed of economic decision-making organize their vote banks along lines of religious and cultural difference, promoting fear and hatred. |
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The Rakshasas robbed people of their senses and 'possessed' them. |
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In Houston, a citizen is shot and robbed at an automatic teller machine. |
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Only a cruel bounce robbed him of a try from Duffy's banana kick. |
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A young girl was robbed and he chased after the mugger and detained him. |
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Cosby was innocently changing his tire that night when he was robbed at gunpoint and then shot in the head. |
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The farmer was selling mielies on his farm near the Blinkfontein road when four men in a black VW Golf with tinted windows robbed him of his cellphone and cash, then shot him. |
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Friends yesterday spoke of his strength of character, which he had shown after a previous incident in which he was robbed by a young woman at his house. |
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Yet early in 1941 General O'Connor was robbed of the chance of destroying the opposing Italian Army by the need to send an expeditionary force to Greece. |
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Her deafness was always a source of pride, but here she is forced to see how deaf individuals can be robbed of their own agency. |
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Clark, who was a newspaper seller on the streets and was known as Nobby, was attacked at night and robbed of his watch and the contents of his money belt. |
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I fear that this worshipful praise drowns out criticism and that we are robbed of the benefits of conducting an open public debate over the course of economic policy. |
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Hype and sensationalism have robbed news stories of credibility. |
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These are the lost poems of the lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden but robbed him of his place in college curricula. |
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One of Clayton's later experiments with the resourceful jays involved observing how they behaved when stashing food in caches that might be robbed by other birds. |
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Discovered in August 1989, this tomb's main chamber had been robbed in antiquity, and yet its antechamber yielded the richest finds in terms of gold. |
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While in Hawaii for a surf contest, Frank and Joe's hotel room is robbed. |
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Neither did he remember landing on the road with a bounce, only to be sifted through and robbed of his watch by a man in search of money for a cocaine fix. |
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Only then will we find a therapeutic solution that fully restores autonomy to those who have been robbed of independence. |
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On the way home the supporters, whose common sense has long been questioned, went berserk after they left the main stadium and robbed people on the street. |
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Marcos, having robbed the Philippines for more than two decades, even managed to take the money with him. |
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If you return home and find that you have been robbed and the house trashed, the police will scarcely be persuaded to take an interest in this routine occurrence. |
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Unable to understand his account of where he lived, the cops dropped him in the wrong part of town, where he was robbed and beaten to within an inch of his life. |
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The airline robbed me blind again, of which more in another post. |
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He was beaten and robbed when sent to tour Europe, after which he made his way back to England. |
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He had robbed Carol and now he was turning Francis against her. |
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A person who has actually been deceived by their partner feels threatened, robbed, deceived and cheated, and is left feeling jealous and torn between love and hate. |
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In a very real way, these plaintiffs were robbed of their childhood. |
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The injuries also robbed him of his rhythm during the season. |
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It did some exploration into Medea's psyche, but the narrative in general had a direct approach, which robbed the play of rising above the ordinary. |
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There were early flashes, Figo robbed Iulian Filipesco of the ball in the fifth minute to supply Numo Gomes with a shot that darted past the left post. |
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All of the other prisoners are gorgeous trained dancers who sing about how they committed murders, counterfeited money, robbed banks and exacted revenge. |
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His harrying of the opposition robbed Chelsea of time on the ball and he looked a million miles removed from the forlorn figure so often seen this season. |
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How does Kim Yu-Na being absolutely freaking robbed of the gold medal rank among past controversies? |
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Two University of Minnesota students lost wallets, cash and cell phones, but otherwise were unhurt when they were robbed at gunpoint on campus Wednesday night, police said. |
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Unfortunately, the way this policy was implemented was perceived as high-handed and arrogant by many of the pensioners who thought they were simply being robbed. |
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Early on Tuesday morning, employees of the South Park branch of Biochim Bank found that thieves had broken into the vault of the bank and robbed more than 40 deposit boxes. |
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And so the serially unpopular Hollande was robbed of a rare break from public opprobrium. |
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The sweetest moments for a fighter are when time has given him the rounds to make him foxy and clever, but has not yet robbed him of the wherewithal to put it into to action. |
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He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed. |
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Although the young woman's coffin was robbed in antiquity, the other remained in situ and undisturbed, and is now on display at the site. |
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Behold the church of St Cuthbert, splattered with the blood of God's priests, robbed of its ornaments. |
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After giving Clay a few 'choice words' as he left the field, Muir later spoke to Clay claiming the English referee had robbed the Australians. |
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Some Vauxhalls have been robbed down to the chassis, making repairs unviable. |
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Hopkins was upset with the official decision and said that he was robbed of a clear points win. |
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The result after twenty rounds was a draw, the British newspapers reported that McFarland had been robbed of a victory. |
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Adults may be robbed of their catch by avian kleptoparasites such as frigatebirds, skuas, other terns or large gulls. |
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They found canopic vases, traditionally used to preserve body organs, but no grave goods, suggesting the tomb was robbed in ancient times. |
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For safety, Ibn Battuta usually joined a caravan to reduce the risk of being robbed. |
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Four minutes later, he robbed center Bill Muckalt, who had stickhandled around Mattias Norstrom. |
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A man with a gun robbed a west Eugene pizza parlor Saturday morning, police said. |
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While Beachill claimed England's first medal of the Games on the squash court, Matthew felt he had been robbed of his prize. |
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The view is robbed of foreground by the broad plateau of the summit, but serried ranks of fells appear in all directions. |
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The view is extensive although robbed of some foreground by the extent of the summit. |
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But one of the lingering arguments will be whether light-middleweight Minter was robbed by wretched judging and curious refereeing. |
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Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break. |
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A PRIEST has hit out at thieves who vandalised and robbed his church on Easter Sunday. |
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Shane Jennings robbed a loose scrum ball in the 63rd minute and ferried it on for D'Arcy to send Hickie shuttling in at the left corner. |
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A HOUSEBOUND pensioner was robbed of pounds 100 when two intruders broke into her Coventry home. |
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A WOMAN who robbed a pensioner making her way home from shops using a walking frame has been jailed for three years and three months. |
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Dave Thomas would never have shredded documents, misstated earnings or robbed his own employees. |
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A FOOD delivery man attacked by three Bahraini teenagers got his revenge by falsely claiming that they also robbed him. |
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In 2009 a man in a Santa suit robbed the SunTrust bank in Hermitage, Tenn. |
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He now uses a wheelchair because of a form of Parkinsonism that has robbed him of use of his legs. |
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A PREGNANT teenager who robbed a shop at knifepoint and ended up with just a pound was given a chance to escape prison yesterday. |
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Sylmar center fielder Christine Lopez robbed Ponce with a sensational running shoestring catch leading off the seventh. |
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I head towards David Jones in the city, which has a bottle shop that is easily robbed of its expensive and unusual spirits. |
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He struck in the 77th minute when it seemed the Toffees would be robbed of victory by Dean Kiley. |
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Just as Eazy had robbed Lonzo at Crew Cut Records, Suge and Dre had now ganked Eazy. This time, however, there was a slight problem. |
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They were forced to pay compensation for what they had robbed before they could enter Austrasia. |
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The significance of this law was in the fact that it robbed the patricians of their final weapon over the plebeians. |
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This robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made it increasingly subservient to him. |
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A PARTIALLY-sighted man using a white stick was left traumatised after an attacker threw him to the ground and robbed him. |
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The hostage-taker had robbed the bank with another man earlier yesterday, and it was not clear at what point he had slipped away. |
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Sarah Richardson found a different bonus for robbed plants when she studied the three bee species that buzz around the desert willow. |
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The other class of thief, socially inferior to the pickpocket, was the lush roller who followed drinking men and robbed them when they collapsed. |
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Many of the large abbey churches, particularly those outside the towns, were robbed, burnt out and abandoned. |
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In December 2004, the restaurant Pat's of Henderson in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was robbed. |
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Tiffany Baber, 19, tricked Thomas Parker into meeting her to sell a mobile phone, then left him to be mercilessly robbed. |
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Priests and staff of the Orthodox archdiocese were shocked when they arrived Wednesday morning to find out that the building had been robbed and vandalized. |
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An exotic dancer who robbed a Eugene coffee stand of cash that she subsequently used to support a heroin addiction will serve prison time for the crime. |
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A GANG armed with a machete and gun robbed a filling station. |
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Wonder if it was cage fighting which robbed him of every brain cell. |
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A DRUG dealer who fatally stabbed a man in a phonebox in a frenzied revenge attack after he was robbed of pounds 30 worth of drugs was today starting a life sentence. |
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Eugene police are searching for a man who robbed a Wendy's restaurant on Willamette Street Tuesday night, while wearing what appeared to be a tube sock over his head. |
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In a number of cases in the past year, travelers arriving in Port-au-Prince on flights from the United States were attacked and robbed shortly after departing the airport. |
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Redgrave's depiction of a man slowly being robbed of the ability to write by his illness is captivating and intense, despite his louche delivery and demeanour. |
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With Donglegate she pointlessly robbed that man of his employment. She degraded his masculinity. And so the community responded by degrading her femininity. |
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Poenius Postumus, prefect of the 2nd legion, which had failed to join the battle, having robbed his men of a share of the glory, committed suicide by falling on his sword. |
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Legally he was without protection, and he says that he was on one occasion beaten, robbed of all he had, and put in chains, perhaps awaiting execution. |
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Men, women, and children were robbed and murdered for three days. |
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In August they robbed five people accompanying a coach on Barnes Common, and shortly after that they attacked another coach party, between Putney and Kingston Hill. |
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A shrewd and calculating leader, Teach spurned the use of force, relying instead on his fearsome image to elicit the response he desired from those he robbed. |
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They were freed after four days but robbed of all their possessions. |
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All the appointments were of his own partisans, which robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made the Senate increasingly subservient to him. |
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Without this help many travellers would be robbed and murdered. |
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Separated from his companions, he was robbed and nearly lost his life. |
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This defendant robbed two building societies in order to repay debts. |
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The cists were probably robbed in the hope of finding treasure. |
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The guys who robbed the bank last week have finally been run in. |
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Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt. |
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Common to most commands, divers aboard the USS Sargo were plagued by inadequate storage, too few divers, and a schedule that robbed the best opportunities for diving. |
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It said Russia's entry, the controversial teenage pop duo Tatu, were robbed of possible victory after receiving 'unlikely low points' from certain countries. |
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Because many of the works discovered in Munich are previously unknown and thus uncatalogued, the relatives of those who were robbed may not know of their claim. |
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Robbed of one of their principal ball-winners and their talismanic playmaker, a tough night was always going to lie ahead. |
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Robbed of their strongest issue, but with Europe itself going close to unmentioned by the big parties, Ukip's evangelists edge further and further into conspiracy theorism. |
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