Sentence examples for convicted thief from inspiring English sources

Her great-great-grandfather Solomon Wiseman, a convicted thief, took land now known as Wiseman's Ferry, near Sydney.

The setting this time is occupied France, and Flynn plays a convicted thief and murderer who escapes the guillotine when his prison is bombed by Allied forces.

BetFred, which is based in Gibraltar, was found to have failed to meet its obligations on social responsibility and the prevention of money laundering, after taking thousands of pounds from convicted thief Matthew Stevens.

Betfred, based in Gibraltar, was found to have failed to meet its obligations on social responsibility and the prevention of money laundering, after taking thousands of pounds from the convicted thief Matthew Stevens.

Her enigmatic English father, who left the family when she was a child and died when she was 11, had been, she later learned, an Anglican Benedictine monk and a convicted thief, though not necessarily in that order; her American-Swiss mother became a Benedictine nun after the dissolution of her marriage.

In 2000, Zarqawi, a Jordanian who had been a convicted thief and sex criminal before turning to radical Islam, created his own group, drawing from his country and the region known in Arabic as al-Sham, or the Levant — that is, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria.

Mr. de Araújo is a convicted car thief who was serving a sentence of more than six years in a halfway house.

It would not normally occur to you to interview a convicted jewel thief for the post of custodian of the Tower of London.

Mr. Liberato de Araújo was a convicted car thief serving a sentence of more than six years in a halfway house; he slept there at night and was a militia member by day.

One of the governors standing beside him was Sani Ahmed, who started to introduce sharia to his state, Zamfara, in January.A few days later, Mr Ahmed publicly refuted the deal, and the authorities in Zamfara amputated the hand of a convicted cattle thief.

Once the sting gets underway, there are tense moments, as when the chief suspect, a gang member and convicted art thief named Bjorn Grypdal (yep, Norway has gangs) tries to lure Mr. Hill alone at night to a rendezvous site outside Oslo.