Sentence examples for cattle stealing from inspiring English sources
Rob was a freebooter with uncertain loyalty to James and was probably also engaged in cattle stealing and blackmail, old and at that time still honourable Highland practices.
Cattle stealing and murder has become such a serious issue that peace was top of the agenda for the herders gathered together in southern Ethiopia.
Son of an alehouse keeper, Turpin was apprenticed to a butcher, but, having been detected at cattle stealing, he joined a notorious gang of deer stealers and smugglers in Essex.
Both the akam and the puṟam had well-defined tiṇais (genres) that paralleled one another: e.g., the kuṟiñci genre, in love poetry, which dealt with the lovers' clandestine union on a hillside by night; and the veṭci genre, in heroic poetry, which dealt with the first onset of war, by nocturnal cattle stealing.
Cattle Stealing Prevention Act (Cap. 9 03).
Last April, just before she won the London Marathon, Loroupe had 20 head of cattle stolen from Kapsait.
The report added: "Most of the youth therefore also raided cattle, stole personal property, raped and abducted women and girls as a form of payment".
Dingane reportedly granted the Voortrekkers land between the Tugela River and the Mzimvubu River in the south, on the condition that they retrieve cattle stolen by the rebel chief Sikyonela.
At least 600 people have been killed, 200 children kidnapped, tens of thousands of cattle stolen and 7,900 homes destroyed in recent battles between the Murle and Lou Nuer communities.
The vast majority (85 %) of respondents were married, 88 % of whom have had their cattle stolen.
