Sentence examples for robbers for from inspiring English sources

(Silvio Raffiotta, the magistrate who led the legal attack on the Met 20 years ago, admitted that Italy's "negligence and silence" were as much to blame as tomb robbers for the silver ending up in the United States).

Barely a century ago American medical schools were helping themselves to alumni of the local poorhouse for some of their teaching material and paying grave robbers for the rest.

A former boyfriend, the baronet Sir Benjamin Slade (who successfully sued her in the late 1990s after their breakup over the custody of their dog, Jasper, prompting the tabloids to brand her "Feisty Fiona"), called the Carnarvons "grave robbers" for their discovery of the tombs of Tutankhamen.

Miles, five other minor league players for the Astros and a woman were victims of an armed robbery at their motel late Sunday night, and he wound up struggling with one of two robbers for a gun before the police crashed through a window and shot and wounded the intruder.

The proverbial "look at my gun" approach that has worked for bank robbers for decades.

I found myself calling these sweet Moroccan salesmen "highway robbers" for asking $5 for a hand-embroidered silk shawl.

Nawab looked over at the robber for the first time.

Governments should be granted the right to use face-recognition technology only where there is a clear public good (identifying a bank robber for instance).

By the time of the 1994 Cup semi Irwin was lining up for United and Royle was referring to Alex Ferguson as a robber for stumping up only around £600,000 for him.

The power of the technology was illustrated when biological evidence found at a crime scene 20 years ago was shown to match a DNA sample taken recently from a jailed robber for inclusion in New York's newly expanded DNA database.

Much later in the 1860s, a professional grave robber for the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati became incensed at tricks played on him by medical students.