Sentence examples for outright robbery from inspiring English sources
"We know very well where we can cut expenditures, where there are gray areas and where it is outright robbery," he said.
The governments in both Slovenia and Croatia, the wealthiest republics, which have threatened to secede from Yugoslavia if the country is not turned into a loose confederation of independent states, condemned Serbia's monetary measures as outright robbery.
Students at the school, Gilber writes, come from "the most economically battered places in the hemisphere"; lacking vehicles or a budget for transportation, they often commandeer buses along highways in order to travel to schools in other cities, a transportation method that officials view as "outright robbery".
Even the most die-hard Jets fan knows that the team's come-from-behind victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday was outright robbery -- a gift not from the deity, as the Jets coach, Bill Parcells, would have it, but from a linesman whose eyes or mind must have wandered.
You can fall victim to a variety of scams, from counterfeit money to short-changing to outright robbery, so be watchful and avoid suspicious exchange booths or people who approach you on the street or in the train station.
Closed societies failed outright.
Corneille contradicted Aristotle outright.
