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Robbing in sentence

110 examples of Robbing in a sentence

Belfort has been described as a perverse Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to himself and his pals.
It won’t die of course, as international bureaucracies seldom do, but it risks becoming irrelevant, thus robbing Europe of its global voice.
The only way to resist these threats is to address their root cause: the imbalance of power at the top of the regime and within ministry staffs that is gradually robbing Karzai's government of legitimacy.
Obviously, the US cannot remove this uncertainty without robbing the sabre-rattling of its beneficial effect.
Robbing the RomaBUDAPEST – A year and a half has passed since the European Commission adopted the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020, which calls upon European Union governments to create comprehensive plans aimed at strengthening social inclusion and improving the well-being of their Romani citizens.
Denying refugee children an education will deprive them of these benefits and the skills they will need to rebuild their lives, robbing them of hope for the future and increasing the risk of recruitment by extremist groups.
Alas, companies started robbing minority shareholders by all means possible.
The young Ukrainians who protested on Maidan square – not against Russia, but against a corrupt elite that was robbing their country of its European future – must be supported.
Their complaint was that the newfangled machines were robbing them of their wages and jobs.
Islam was robbing the German Volk of its true identity.
Adam Smith, for example, recognized that the division of labor would make people dumber by robbing them of non-specialized skills.
But relying upon population growth and desertification to prolong their lives would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Another example is the smorgasbord of special benefits provided to the energy sector, especially oil and gas, thereby simultaneously robbing the treasury, distorting resource allocation, and destroying the environment.
When that happens, we see the true result of loose monetary policy: not the creation of more economic activity, but the destruction of the natural mechanism of economic coordination and adjustment, robbing the system of its resilience.
In the meantime, persistent high unemployment reduces the economy’s growth potential by robbing today’s workers of skills and experience.
Under Romney, the opportunity deficit would widen, robbing the country of future talent and productivity.
The city has been ransacked, and important historical and religious sites destroyed, robbing Mali of a crucial source of tourism revenue.
Increased restrictions inevitably add to the short-term economic pressures on many households and are likely to dampen consumer sentiment, robbing the economy of an important driver of growth.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has found that increasingly frequent droughts and floods are reducing agricultural productivity, while rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are robbing plants of the nutrients and vitamins we need to survive.
Fidesz has not only dismantled democracy and the rule of law in Hungary, but also demonized the EU as a tyrannical institution that is supposedly robbing Europeans of their freedom.
That means stopping soil erosion and other practices that are robbing our soils – and the billions of microorganisms and organisms that live in them – of their health.
He took out ten thousand francs in fine crowns, and took a denier, though with the fear of robbing his children of that sum.
"Why, ideas of robbing us.
"He's robbing us, Lydie, isn't he?
At most they could only get to eight centimes, so the Company would be robbing them of two centimes, without counting the time taken by careful work.
As if they were robbing any one by picking up the bits of lost coal!
He reproached himself with forgetting Emma, as if, all his thoughts belonging to this woman, it was robbing her of something not to be constantly thinking of her.
He seemed to him to be conducting himself in a monstrous fashion, to be robbing him in a sort, and almost committing sacrilege.
These measures so enlightened the Marquis as to his own financial position that he was able to give himself the pleasure of embarking on two or three fresh speculations without the assistance of his broker, who had been robbing him.
They were so covered in dust that when the painter tried to blow it off the one on top the dust swirled around in front of K.'s eyes, robbing him of breath for some time.
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