The country's endless wars, foreign occupations and targeted drone killings have stretched our military thin, robbed us of resources needed to shore up our infrastructure, and left us vulnerable to blowback, and yet the U.S. government has committed close to $6 trillion to advance wars in the Middle East and prop up the military industrial complex.
Wearing a thin disguise, he robs a Johannesburg bank and walks away with the money.
The loss of Shumpert will weaken an already-thin backcourt, and it will rob the Knicks of their best defender against Dwyane Wade, who had 19 points.
"Or I can flush a road" — keep the traffic lights green, allowing traffic to thin out — "although that is just robbing Peter to pay Paul, because a green light is a red light somewhere else".
The historical evidence for grave robbing is a bit thin.
"Skimmers" used to rob automated teller machines are getting thinner.
The Mets were thin in the bullpen after Tuesday's 16-1 loss, which robbed them of their dignity -- outfielder Derek Bell gave up the final five runs -- and their bullpen depth.
This year's record-breaking temperatures have robbed the Arctic of its winter, sending snowmobilers plunging through thin ice into freezing rivers and forcing deliveries of snow to the starting line of Alaska's legendary Iditarod dogsledding race.
The CVS Pharmacy was robbed late Friday morning by a gunman wearing a white mask with a thin mustache, akin to the Guy Fawkes masks worn by protesters in the Occupy movement.
Waxman's argument that "Western museums remain essential custodians of the past" wears thin when she conflates imperial looting of the Elgin variety with the modern phenomenon of commercial grave-robbing.
Investors should expect that the ETF herd will thin somewhat in 2009 as neglected funds like the Market Vectors Gaming ETF (nyse:BJK) and the Claymore/Rob Report Global Luxury Fund (nyse:ROB) reassess whether it's worth it to stay in the game.
