Sentence examples for stealing to pay from inspiring English sources

The daughter of two addicted parents, she began smoking marijuana daily and later snorting cocaine at a young age, stealing to pay for her drug habit.

Turner said he was introduced to cannabis and ice at the age of 12 by family members and became addicted, stealing to pay for his drugs.

The furniture of the bank set mimics that in Dog Day Afternoon (in which he played a luckless thief caught stealing to pay for his transsexual lover's sex-reassignment surgery).

Comedian Simon Day, the creator of characters such as "Competitive Dad" and Tommy Cockles in The Fast Show, had a solid middle-class upbringing, but after his parents divorced he ended up unwelcome at both homes, mostly due to getting hooked on fruit machines and stealing to pay for his habit.

Addicts stole to pay for drugs, and pushers screeched around in fast cars with rap music blaring.

Prosecutors said that Mr. Nemazee, who had a Maserati and part interest in a yacht, stole to pay for his lavish lifestyle.

The disaster of Prohibition in America should have taught the world lessons enough: criminalisation creates enormous problems, by providing opportunities for organised crime, and turning many users into criminals - principally those who become addicted and who therefore have to steal to pay for their habit.

Bevan used the money he stole to pay off the mortgage on his home in Cwmbran.

His crack addiction got worse, and he started to steal to pay for drugs.

With a packed ensemble cast, in the film Viola Davis plays a woman forced to steal to pay off her husband's debts after he dies while committing a robbery.

The district court's reasoning, simply stated, was that money is fungible--as an alleged bank robber is not entitled to use money that he is said to have stolen to pay his lawyer, neither should he be able to spend the bank's money and then use other money at hand to pay his lawyer.