Sentence examples for robbed in order to from inspiring English sources

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"There have been concerns among some of us that those sorts of NASA programs were robbed in order to concentrate on Earth science".

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Wouldn't decriminalisation solve the problem of kids robbing in order to score?

He is lacking, however, the possibility of incarnation: he is left to rob others in order to procure for himself the appearance of personality and corporeality.

When I asked about the marriage, which ended in 2005, he likened it to the Gus Van Sant film "Drugstore Cowboy," in which Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch play drug addicts who rob pharmacies in order to support their habit.

Each time, the perpetrator apologized, saying they didn't want to hurt me, but they had to rob me in order to survive.

In The Place Beyond the Pines, a generational drama directed by Blue Valentines Derek Cianfrance, Gosling portrayed Luke, a motorcycle stunt rider who robs banks in order to provide for his family.

He quoted Oscar Wilde — "It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done" — and told me that he had robbed the Girolamini in order to earn money for library renovations.

Still, when he spoke to the detective at a coffee shop called the Top and Top, in Queens, Kenny said that he was sure he would have heard if his brother had died, but he had had no news of the fugitive since the night of the murders, at which time, he said, "Frank went to the Coliseum and robbed a shylock in order to get money to get out of town".

But Ernie kept threatening to kill himself unless he could have the surgery, so as Wojtowicz saw it,  he robbed a bank in order to save Ernie's life.

In 1967, at twenty-two, he attempted to rob a bank, in order to raise funds for the cause.

Like Popeye, Chance is a marginal sociopath who has the makings of a pretty fair criminal himself; he crosses the line when he robs a fence in order to raise the cash he needs to buy counterfeit bills from his elusive prey.

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