"They think it might be a robbery," said another detective, adding, however, that there was no other evidence to indicate that robbery was the motive.
"Then again, it might be pure robbery".
When he got to the office, a fellow officer approached him and said, half-jokingly, that he thought the officer might be a robbery suspect.
Pirates who spent that year killing and plundering, Nathaniel Mist grumpily wrote, could salve their guilty consciences, if they had any: "Whatever Robberies they had committed, they might be pretty sure they were not the greatest Villains then living in the World".
The incident was initially attributed to drug gangs, but a later report said robbery might have been the motive.Congo battles onUgandan and Rwandan troops, backing rival rebel groups in Congo, fought a three-day battle in Kisangani, Congo's third city.
In all the confusion of the clues, it was hopeless because they all led up blind alleys, and even simple robbery might have been possible.
Prosecutors said robbery might have been the motive.
A concept can be an object (e.g., a house or a person) but might be an event as well (e.g., a robbery).
It was looted out of his royal coffin in Victorian times, when grave-robbery was not condemned so seriously by archaeologists as it might be now.
