Sentence examples for sought to rob from inspiring English sources

Yet even in these circumstances, after a calamitous budget that sought to rob from the sick and disabled to feed the rich, it was Labour that lost seats.

Whether the assailants had sought to rob him or to hurt him, he was too frightened to continue sleeping in the Jungle.

He said: "Thirty years ago today the people of the Falkland Islands suffered an act of aggression that sought to rob them of their freedom and their way of life.

Uncovering a vast conspiracy that sought to rob the Russian state and its citizens of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds, allegedly executed by police officers and governmental officials.

"I am going to Mississippi because I feel that my presence, as a white man, can indicate to Negro Mississippians that there are white men who care about their plight, that there are white men whose insides burn with anxiety and guilt when the consider the way in which other white men have sought to rob the black man of his humanity".

In his statement, Mr Cameron said: "Thirty years ago today the people of the Falkland Islands suffered an act of aggression that sought to rob them of their freedom and their way of life.

Instead of acting as the custodians of humanity's cultural heritage, some seek to rob posterity, by "repurposing" their "space" and relegating little-used volumes to landfills.

Kubrick's preoccupation is the power of the will and how the state seeks to rob his protagonist of his free will.

Sure, there are plenty of organized criminals still seeking to rob banks and get sensitive company secrets for competitive gain.

They do so in a way that seeks to rob women of their beauty in submission".

The notion that Howell was seeking to rob Pernell was also bolstered by Hood's repeated assertions that Howell refused to work for an honest living.