Sentence examples for snatching from inspiring English sources

The judge, Andrew Mitchell QC, said: "The victim in the case could easily have died, not through any other reason than just snatching something from him, and causing him therefore to fall down, and he could have just gone at that age".

"If they lose men at the front, they come raiding our villages and snatching men in retaliation," said a terrified Sunni farmer who lived nearby.

Here Tarrasch looks like snatching the full point: White's king is a long way from the action and neither is it in a position to shepherd the h-pawn to promotion.

Charlton withstood the best of the Leeds onslaught, but were unable to prevent skipper Brendan Ormsby from snatching a goal through 20-year-old striker Bob Taylor – who had been recalled by Bremner from a holiday after John Pearson had been injured.

On the Essex coast, the UK Independence Party has just won its first parliamentary byelection; in Greater Manchester, they have come within a whisker of snatching a hitherto safe seat from Labour.

On Sunday, the streaming service took home two Golden Globes for its critical darling Transparent (a second season is in the works), and acquiring Allen seems to shout that they're interested in snatching Netflix's crown as the buzz-worthy internet home of prestige television.

Even now, three decades after the collapse of the dictatorship, some Argentinians defend the military's campaign against Cuban-inspired guerrinlas in the 1970s, but even the most die-hard reactionaries draw the line at the baby-snatching cases.

According to police figures, thefts involving violence in public areas were up by 41% in the first half of this year compared with the first half of 2000, crime in the Metro by 25%, pickpocketing and handbag-snatching by 13%.

Michael Mastromarino, the leader of a New York body-snatching ring, was recently jailed for at least 18 years after stealing bones, skin, arterial valves, ligaments and other tissues from corpses nabbed from funeral homes.

In orange lettering set against a black backdrop, they carry cryptic messages: "It destroyed my region"; "It killed my son"; "It took away my wife" (pictured above).So what is "it"—this mysterious region-destroying, son-killing, wife-snatching scourge?

So too, says Deputy Inspector-General Ganesh Rai, the man behind the initiative, have crimes such as domestic violence, gang fights and bag-snatching.