Sentence examples for may be robbed from inspiring English sources

She frets at her home in Queens and worries that her husband, Manjeet Singh, may be robbed.

Their guides may assault or abandon them, or they may be robbed of their cargo by "rip crews" (US-based bandits).

It has also become clear that thousands may be robbed of their right to vote because of confusion over polling stations and postal voting".

Many of them have been staying at evacuation centers for nearly six weeks, after fleeing the tsunami without time to gather their valuables; growing activity in the evacuation area has prompted concern among evacuees that their homes may be robbed while they are away, although there have been no documented cases of looting.

Fearful that his 2,308 houses may be robbed while he's there, Robbie Fowler is snubbing a move to Norway in favour of staying at Blackburn who, incidentally, are giving a trial to Phillippe Christanval – a defender whose star performances in Championship Manager bore little resemblance to his shambolic ones while at Fulham.

But Ida may be robbed of her claim to that title by a new fossil primate from Asia, published today.

I can understand why Mr. Schrader and Mr. Stollman would resist milking these scenes for tear-jerking empathy, since the fable's sardonic final twist is its suggestion that sanity, whatever that may be, robs existence of its divine fire.

"If an injury death takes the life of someone who is 30, they may be losing the difference between 30 years and the expected life of 75 years, so you may be robbing them of 45 years of expected life," Rosenberg said.

This contrast in turn makes you realize how constructed and artificial -- how allegorical -- the whole affair feels, and that artificiality, the sense that you're being railroaded (however comfortable your carriage may be), robs the novel of the sense of organically accumulated weight it's supposed to have by the end.

The unfortunate reality is that Equatorial Guinea is not the only country where the elite may be robbing the poor.

On the other hand, it also doesn't seem to occur to Jack and Emma that their desire to hide this relationship may be robbing Izzy of her own twenties.