Sentence examples for steal rather than from inspiring English sources

There will always be short-run scam artists who seek to steal rather than create long-term value.

Do that on a big enough scale and some are bound to choose to steal rather than starve.

"The problem is that fraudsters are sentenced on the amount they steal, rather than on who they steal from and the impact on the victim," she says.

It's a huge change of scene for Foyles, London's temple of books, which was once famed for dark forbidding bookshelves and a payment system so arcane that many visitors chose to steal rather than buy their favoured paperback.

"The concerted effort to steal, rather than simply purchase, commercially available products should offend every company that invests talent, energy and shareholder money into the development of products," said Adam Braverman, the U.S. attorney in San Diego who helped prosecute the cases.

It requires the owners of the copyright to tell the thief what not to steal, rather than the burden being put on the thief not to steal anything.

The government hopes it will also blunt donors' worries that their money might be stolen rather than spent.

You can get great handbags for £50; I think some of them are stolen rather than fakes.

How to prove that $20m in an account held by a Yanukovych crony was stolen rather than honestly earned if he also had some legitimate business interests?

The jury found the money to have been stolen rather than found, and it was given to the county to be used in building a new jail.

Maybe a perfectly good but inexpensive bike was parked by its owner and had its wheels stolen; rather than replace them, the owner just left the frame where it was.