Sentence examples for thievery from inspiring English sources

Commercial surveillance then attracts government attention, with two results that Snowden has documented for us: complicity and outright thievery.

What the US data-mining companies basically believed, or wanted us to believe they believed until Snowden woke them, was that by complicity they had gained immunity from actual thievery.

The cost to the taxpayer is much greater: officials in Newham, in east London, which has lost 260 covers and gratings in recent weeks, put the cost of replacement at £60,000 ($110,000).Luckily, nobody has been hurt by falling down the holes, although that is sadly the case in other, poorer countries where such thievery is more common.

In his "Cantos", Pound seldom bothered to mention whose fusty trunk he was happily ransacking.Where, then, does honest allusion, which authors want readers to catch, stop and sly thievery begin?

He was charged but later acquitted.Nigeria is famous for corruption, yet at issue is more than thievery.

To make sure those freedoms endure, Indonesia needs to face up to the past, and to make a proper accounting for the murky atrocities and untold thievery of Mr Suharto's reign.

Nor does he have the same reputation for thievery.

"IT TAKES A Thief" is the long-awaited "greatest hits" album from Thievery Corporation, a pioneering electronic-music duo.

It is failing to stem oil thievery on a gargantuan scale in the south.

It shows intrigue and thievery at the court of an ancient king in the Niger Delta.

The cost hits not only Deutsche Bahn's bottom line but also its tattered reputation.Last year was a good one for metal thievery (in Germany and beyond) because the copper price was so high.