Sentence examples for foil a robbery from inspiring English sources

Employees at the Bellagio foil a robbery.

He records the plate number of any unfamiliar car loitering in his neighborhood; so far, no one has tailed him there, but he did foil a robbery the time he reported a suspicious vehicle.

Three A.T.M. technicians helped foil a robbery at a garment district bank on Tuesday morning, the police said, and passers-by helped gather the bills that scattered when the robber fled, and returned them.

Robbed Wrexham postmaster showed "remarkable courage" A postmaster who suffered concussion as he tried to foil a robbery at gunpoint has been commended for his bravery.

Police officers foiled a robbery this week at a deli in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the police said, in a dramatic confrontation, much of it captured on security video.

Some six months later, an off-duty federal agent, John Capano, was killed foiling a robbery at Charlie's Family Pharmacy in Seaford.

A bank teller at a savings bank branch in Queens foiled a robbery yesterday by refusing to hand over money, the police said.

"Romney is trying to say that he foiled a robbery in a brothel, the brothel being Massachusetts," said Ralph Whitehead, a political analyst at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Mayor Giuliani went a step further yesterday, saying, "I think he actually will be commended for it, because he ended up foiling a robbery in progress".

A convenience store employee who foiled a robbery by wrestling a sawed-off rifle from a would-be assailant was fired for breaking the store's rule on robberies that says: Just hand over the cash.

Mr. Gunn's own tastes in big screen superhero fare run from Christopher Nolan's recent "Batman" films to "Hero at Large," a 1980 confection in which a struggling actor foils a robbery while wearing Captain Avenger attire and starts taking his fantasy role seriously.