Sentence examples for snatch children from inspiring English sources

In other words, to Marks's way of thinking, an intention to engage with British "recovery" lads to snatch children off the street of a foreign country miraculously would not leave any of the perpetrators open to criminal charges, if caught.

Specially trained neighbourhood spies, known as child officers, will have powers to snatch children off the street if they are known to be part of a family that has exceeded its fecundity limit.

A secular priesthood of social workers snatch children from "elitist" parents (though that scandal, he later discovers, turns out to be not what it seems).Flushed with success, he abandons small-town Sweden (and his first wife and child) for the delights of London.

The move towards integrated working has also helped improve the image of the children and family social worker who, in the past, had a poor public reputation, often seen as simply trained to snatch children from their families and put them into care.

I'm aware that people snatch children.

But to imagine them everywhere, ever ready to snatch children, is to see the world through Salem eyes.

Long Lankin, an English folk villain, has been snatching children here since the days of witch-burning.

Then the long-awaited first verdict of the international criminal court (ICC) found Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga guilty of snatching children off the streets to wage war and act as his personal bodyguards.

Everyone else is likely to be both charmed and scarily entertained by a story with some ingenious revisions that tells how a goblin army is snatching children from villages and taking them to the Snow Queen's palace, where she feeds on their tantrums and tempers.

Raymond says that Sakura is "just as smart, just as tender" as Toby, and he doesn't seem to notice the mothers, at their windows, yelling to their children to cross the street when he is on the block walking Sakura, or the fathers running out to snatch the children away.

Perhaps it drowned out those voices in his head that told him to snatch small children.