Sentence examples for were systematically robbed from inspiring English sources

Pierre Delagrange, president of the Collective of Sub-Saharan Communities in Morocco, a group formed to fight abuse of migrants, said that on the long journey from their homes, they were systematically robbed by the smugglers who took them across borders and threatened to abandon them unless they paid more money.

Instead, they were systematically robbed and many were murdered in the death camps.

It is time the international community took proper notice that Ethiopian and Ugandan people are systematically robbed of fundamental freedoms by their governments.

"It's extremely painful to realize that the majority of Palestinians and Israelis just want to live safe and happy lives, and are being systematically robbed of that right".

Yet as the Swiss banking scandal and a dozen revelations from the art museums and countries around the globe keep on demonstrating, it is the Jews who have been systematically robbed, on a giant scale, and by the finest of banks and governments, too.

Visconti's La Terra Trema, a 1948 neo-realist lament for Sicilian fishermen filmed with the people of Aci Trezza on the island's east coast beneath Etna, analyses the problems of Sicily not in dogmatically Marxist terms: the fishermen are systematically robbed by middlemen whose corrupt practices are clearly mafia-like.

Gaza and the West Bank are poor, and although in the past decade Western and Arab governments have poured billions of dollars into the accounts of the Palestinian Authority, most Palestinians believe that, thanks to the corruption of Fatah, they have been systematically robbed of much of that aid money.

The rare and collectable action figures had been systematically robbed from Rancho Obi-Wan over a series of months.

These people have faced adversity for 500 years and know how to survive, but the courts and federal agencies seem intent once again on prolonging the suffering of a people who have been systematically robbed of their land and heritage.

[Brooklyn Daily Eagle] A group of thieves in Brooklyn are systematically robbing A.T.M.'s and then splashing bleach at the scene.

Some had been partially robbed during the New Kingdom, but all were systematically denuded of their contents in the 21st dynasty, in an effort to protect the royal mummies and to recycle the rich funerary goods back into the royal treasury.