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Robbed in sentence

209 examples of Robbed in a sentence

He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay’s land.
This vital vote was robbed of unanimity (Lebanon also opposed it).
Of the 17.2 million people that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the UN Refugee Agency) is responsible for protecting, roughly half are under the age of 18, meaning that an entire generation of young people, already robbed of their childhood, could lose out on a future as well.
Africans wanted leaders who would reconcile and reunite them – leaders who would restore to them the dignity that colonialism had robbed.
With Europe and the IMF failing to agree, Greece has been robbed of the additional funding it needs to clear domestic arrears and meet its rather large external debt-service payments in July.
The standard objection – that people are robbed of their dignity when they are given money without having to work – is ahistorical.
France’s basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro’s introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its competitiveness.
More than three quarters of Venezuela’s 31 million people want to free themselves from the stranglehold of their rulers, a small group of no more than 150 mafia-like figures (mostly military) who have hijacked the country’s democracy, robbed it blind, and created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Perhaps the most obvious example of the threat European societies faces occurred in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, when more than 600 women were sexually assaulted – and in some cases also robbed – by large gangs of men, most of whom were illegal immigrants or asylum-seekers.
Many of my comrades were robbed of that chance, for few remain alive.
They saved the banking systems, modernized telecommunications networks, rebuilt ailing industries, raised the quality of goods, and undermined the cozy vested interests that had robbed ordinary citizens for decades.
The economic crisis in southern Europe stemmed from an inflationary credit bubble that resulted from the absence of interest-rate premiums, and that robbed the afflicted countries of their competitiveness.
But these cases go beyond the companies robbed and the shareholders betrayed.
When a country is robbed of a national art treasure, we don’t call its return “re-nationalization,” because it belonged to the country all along.
The tariff was bad mercantilism: it robbed more in profits and unionized jobs from steel-consuming industries than it gave to steel-making industries, and the former were at least as well-organized and vocal in Washington as the latter.
Furthermore, under the Nordic model, clients who are robbed by prostitutes and their pimps fear to seek assistance from law enforcement.
In the United States, the so-called liberal establishment is convinced it was robbed by an insurgency of “deplorables” weaponized by Vladimir Putin’s hackers and Facebook’s sinister inner workings.
No need to sell off your stocks and bonds and sit on cash throughout this December only to worry about getting robbed.
One factor is the still prevailing myth that Argentina is a rich country, or would be, if it weren't for a cabal of corrupt politicians, greedy local businessmen, and international financiers who have robbed the place blind.
And last April, a Jewish couple in a Parisian suburb were robbed, because, as the attackers put it, “Jews must have money” (though that did not explain why they then raped the woman).
Indeed, we actually believe that the “we wuz robbed” dimension of all sports adds to their lore and legend.
If you were told that there was a 95% chance that your house would be robbed, you would not wait; you would take preventive action immediately.
But I have also seen what happens when young people and their communities are robbed of education – and of the optimism it engenders.
Otherwise, our collective future will belong to an alliance of dark money, disinformation, and the sort of division that robbed our country of its most prominent journalist.
Threats on social media, against female journalists in particular, are an everyday occurrence, and journalists are routinely beaten up, teargassed, or robbed of their equipment.
In terms of security, going cashless reduces the chances of being physically robbed.
But the region had nothing to sell because the currency reform robbed it of the cost advantage that countries at a similar level of development usually enjoy.
These children are being robbed not only of their freedom, but also of childhood itself.
In his latest work, The Shipwreck of Civilizations, Maalouf charts the decline of that vibrant and resplendent Lebanon after it was razed by the same sectarianism that robbed so many countries in the Middle East of a promising future.
Modi’s reckless and ill-considered demonetization (which eliminated 500- and 1,000-rupee banknotes in an effort to curtail the black economy), the GST’s botched and hasty rollout, and five years of macroeconomic ineptitude have robbed India of millions of jobs.
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