Sentence examples for small theft from inspiring English sources

Stealing can quickly move on from small theft to bigger items - and that means cars.

One small theft is the sports story of the moment in the United States, while a heist of epic proportions, is emitting nary a peep.

Although music piracy largely fell off the media's radar screen after the music industry stopped suing individuals engaged in small-scale theft, piracy continues to grow.

"Most small thefts, while they add up over a year, don't come near that amount.

It said that Fanny had been responsible for a series of small thefts at school.

"There is a lot of intelligence that says the criminals don't want to make thousands of small thefts," Mr Oerting said.

With deft craftsmanship and small thefts from school and dollar stores, he has been perfecting, over half his life, a private shrine to middle-class comfort.

For all that, Sheriff Furlong said that the town's violent crimes were way down from several years ago and that 60 percent of the calls his office received were "small thefts" or simple assaults.

In THE WASP EATER (Houghton Mifflin, $21), William Lychack's take on the anguish of growing up, there's no war, no murder, only a collection of small thefts and emotional betrayals.

But he did so without his famous charm, instead coming across as arrogant, prickly and, ultimately, unconvincing.To the end, Mr Lay insisted that Enron was essentially a sound and highly profitable company, brought down by the equivalent of a run on the bank after the media reported relatively small thefts by the firm's chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow.

If he has learned anything from his 10 years as a Pullmancar attendant, it is that small thefts lead to jail but "for de big stealin' dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks".