Sentence examples for muggings on from inspiring English sources

For those unfamiliar with the roller derby, it is basically a series of fast-moving gang muggings on wheels.

Tensions have been high after 516 women claimed to have been the victims of sexual assaults and muggings on New Year's Eve.

He found himself sharing quirky childhood anecdotes with her, like the frequent muggings on his way to school on the Upper West Side.

Billy Tashman, who has lived on Park Place since 1979, said he had witnessed two muggings on the block this summer.

Security, the first fundamental public freedom, is no longer guaranteed in European towns, the scene, since the 1970s, of drugs, muggings on trains, in the streets, on public transport, cars set alight, schools vandalised, murderous new crimes, lawlessness in the suburbs, town centres emptying and fear seeping in and taking over.

With less than a month until the opening ceremony, news headlines have been dominated by muggings of athletes, body parts washing up on the shore of Copacabana where the beach volleyball will take place, and a murderous shoot-out in an Olympic-approved hospital.

All three of my muggings happened on a Sunday evening, so I'm always extra careful whenever I'm out on a Sunday.

The number of women claiming to have been victims of a spate of sexual assaults and muggings in Cologne on New Year's Eve rose to 516 on Sunday, amid new evidence that police were completely overwhelmed by the violence, largely blamed on foreigners.

This first came to mind after the arrest of 16-year-old Robert Iler of Manhattan in a mugging incident on the Fourth of July: he and three other teenagers took $40 from two teenagers, the police said.

Rates of certain crimes, like murder, remain relatively low, but other dangers, like street muggings and thefts on public transportation, have surged since 2007.

It's a sharp uptake that's been accompanied by the rise in muggings by teenagers on mopeds, who swipe phones from the hands of unsuspecting victims and race off before anyone can react.