Robberies sentence examples

The firing ~ eme ceased on the following day, but the troubles of the granted people were rather increased than assuaged; murders the and robberies were daily committed by the soldiery, pRSh~tI~ the shops were all shut and some of the streets barricaded.

From profiting by robberies in which he had no share, Wild naturally came to arrange robberies himself, and he devised and controlled a huge organization, which plundered London and its approaches wholesale.

We might not get the gangbangers, car jackings and armed robberies like the big cities but we sure have our share of domestics.

in the Southern states, owing to the harsh Reconstruction laws and the robberies committed by the carpet-bag governments which those laws kept in power; secondly, the scandals at.

Economic distress increased the number of highway robberies, these in turn lamed commercial intercourse.

In the XXIst Dynasty, when tomb robberies were rife and most of their valuables had been stolen, the royal mummies were removed from place to place and at last deposited for safety in the tomb of Amenophis II.

united to them, Louis began a series of systematic robberies of German towns and territories.

by charter of 1254-1255 granted the burgesses their town at an annual fee farm rent of 26 marks, of which they were acquitted in 1318 and 1327 " on account of the robberies and fires inflicted on them by the Scots."

They speedily relapsed into crime; their numbers, as the years passed, became so great and their depredations so serious, especially in garrotte robberies, that a cry of indignation was raised against the system, which led to its arraignment before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1863.

In those days victims of robberies constantly compounded with felonies and paid blackmail to thieves, promising not to prosecute on the restitution of a portion of the stolen property.

But this was not a "peaceful" advancement, for it was only in the king's patronage by reason of the temporalities of the see of Ely having been seized into the king's hands the year before, on account of the bishop being implicated in certain murders and robberies, which he denied, contesting the king's action in the papal court.

Unsolved murders, robberies, burglaries and all matter of crimes occurred daily but Howie turned a deaf ear to expanded involvement.

daring robberies â true crime is big bucks.

felonyn>Serious felonies, burglaries and highway robberies were common.

gunpoint robberies, but the law change allowing 24-hour drinking had no effect on violent crime.

robberyal of their highway robberies were carried out in the Lenton area.

spate of grave robberies in Shaanxi province.

Mutinies occurred, it is true, during the next few weeks in Kronstadt and Sevastopol, and in December there was streetfighting for several days in Moscow, but such serious disorders were speedily suppressed, and thereafter the revolutionary manifestations were confined to mass meetings, processions with red flags, attempts on the lives of officials and policemen, robberies under arms and agrarian disturbances.

His real name was Michele Pezza, and he was born of low parentage at Itri; he had committed many murders and robberies in the Terra di Lavoro, but by good luck combined with audacity he always escaped capture, whence his name of Fra Diavolo, popular superstition having invested him with the characters of a monk and a demon, and it seems that at one time he actually was a monk.

Several of their highway robberies were carried out in the Lenton area.

The robberies were carried out in a clinical, ruthless fashion, using revolvers and sawn off shotguns.

Which could explain a spate of grave robberies in Shaanxi province.

Of course, being young, the thieves were also caught bragging about their robberies.

People working as convenience store clerks may be vulnerable to armed robberies.

Reality cameras captured her arrest for her role in a string of Hollywood robberies.

Much of the action of the show centered around Alexis' fight to clear her name in the so-called "Bling Ring" string of robberies.

According to the charges, Alexis was part of a group of wealthy Hollywood young adults who committed a series of robberies in the homes of the rich and famous.

The first constables appointed were 3000 in number, who, when sworn in, enjoyed all the powers of the old constables under the common law, for preserving the peace, preventing robberies and other felonies, and apprehending offenders.

The Baluch is still essentially a robber and a raider (a trait which is common to all tribes), and the history of Baluchistan is nothing but a story of successful robberies, of lawless rapine and bloodshed, for which plunder and devastation were accounted a worthy and honourable return.