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Soldiers' rations were cut in half; some resorted to stealing from villagers.

"Most of us are thieves but not all of us," said Aposi, denying that he has resorted to stealing.

Some travellers, perhaps believing that they need to get their money's worth, have resorted to stealing the taps from the carriage lavatories.

Carlos and Fernando had been so desperate to start a family that they had resorted to stealing eggs at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust WWTT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

Having resorted to stealing and selling Oscar's clothes for more booze, Willie died in London in 1899 at the age of 46.

Cubans' morals had been broken, he said, by the "special period" of severe economic hardship that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, when many people resorted to stealing, scams and, in some cases, prostitution to get by.

It's been largely forgotten, but Cindy McCain, the wife of the presumptive Republican nominee, was once so hooked on the opioid painkillers Percocet and Vicodin that she resorted to stealing from a medical charity she ran.

One particularly ruthless, particularly empty-handed Purger resorted to stealing wigs off mannequins and was promptly escorted out by security.

"There's a huge demand for it, and people get upset if we run out". People have even resorted to stealing the bottles, said Gomez, so she and her staff now serve portions in ramekins.

"He clearly loved what he was doing," said "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill, "and he had such a personality that came across the pages". Laurence Fishburne — who also performed a reading of Lee's favorite poem, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" — confessed that, as a child, he resorted to stealing Marvel comics when the company raised the prices from 12 cents to 15 cents.

"People are resorting to stealing food in order to not starve," the petition claims.

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