It's never pleasant getting caught lifting material that others wrote.
He was caught lifting five pages of a law-review paper but told administrators it was ignorance, not malice.
Recently Stephen E. Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin, both best-selling authors of some admirable books, have been caught lifting material from other people's books, kidnapping the work of others.
That's awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding, online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others.
The characters are not remarkable; their love problems are unoriginal; and there is no great suspense about whether anybody's life onstage is going to be significantly changed — but how they rush, spin, jump, catch or are caught, lift or are lifted!
It was Toomer's 49th career touchdown catch, lifting him into the franchise lead past Kyle Rote.
Since 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, when freeze-frame cameras caught some "lifting" the Olympic judges missed, infractions have been called even more closely.
It doesn't bother with footnotes, something that got Anderson in trouble when Waldo Jaquith of The Virginia Quarterly Review caught him lifting passages from Wikipedia and other sources.
Cramer took a verbal pounding, said his "mea culpa," and spent most of the show looking like someone who had just been caught shop lifting a candy bar.
Carol gives the son of Jessie named Sam, the boy who caught her lifting some guns from the armory during the dinner party, an offer he can't refuse.
