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How to use the word stealing in a Sentence? Page #5

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The conduct alleged here, sneaking around at night, stealing property and vandalizing homes and businesses with acid, glue, and chemicals, is a form of domestic terrorism and can’t be permitted to continue.

California Laura Duffy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals, these are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?

Bill Cosby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I have been doing business in China for decades, they are not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial, they don't innovate. That is why they are stealing our intellectual property.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The majority of the Ukrainian people, I think, are pretty poor, that Yanukovich stole from the country is bad enough, but these people are stealing from a country at war is even worse. This is just looting.

Dmytro Korchynsky

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I call that stealing.

Beth Sworobuk of Washington

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The platforms are in isolated areas. It's easier than stealing in the city.

Francisco Luna

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We acted differently, we conducted our lives differently. We were reticent. We were scared to do things as a people. That's a stealing of our liberty too.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You might have Floyd's backing but at the same time Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s not going to win the fight for you. And if Floyd Mayweather Jr. is ringside, the opponents fight even harder because they think if they win they might get on to The Money Team, so the pressure's on, floyd Mayweather Jr.'s at ringside shouting out,' Do this ! I like that ! You're stealing my moves Ash !' The first time I had Floyd Mayweather Jr. ringside I was nervous because I could hear the man's voice and my cut man was passing on messages from Floyd Mayweather Jr. to me.

Ashley Theophane

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They aren't protesting. They aren't making a statement. They're stealing.

President Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There's no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday. It is counterproductive, when individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson. And they're destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities. That robs jobs and opportunity from people in that area.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's no excuse for the kind of violence that we saw yesterday, when individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My son is very gentle and he's very loving, and he's a good boy, but that thing wasn't him. I don't think parents understand what they're dealing with. It's a very, very dangerous business. Crystal meth is stealing our kids and turning them into murderers.

Victoria Mendez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm very sad. I lose my eating appetite. I lose my sleep, they are building up an empire on slavery, on stealing, on fish( ing) out, on massive environmental destruction for a plate of seafood.

Susi Pudjiastuti

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

While we've seen very significant violence against women and girls in Congo, what's new and particularly devastating about this crisis is that it is centered in one community. It seems that children are specifically being targeted, the perpetrators are breaking into the homes at night and stealing away the girls, violating them sometimes over a number of days, sometimes just that night, and often times returning the children to their homes and to their parents.

Naama Haviv

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The perpetrators are breaking into the homes at night and stealing away the girls, violating them sometimes over a number of days, sometimes just that night, and often times returning the children to their homes and to their parents.

Naama Haviv

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are not against the Olympics, but we are against the corruption around the golf course that is being arranged by the mayor (Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes), they are stealing with the Olympics as an excuse.

Jean Carlos Novaes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

What's clear is that the National Front is stealing lots of voters both from the UMP and the Socialists regardless of what party leaders tell them.

Jerome Fourquet

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. we should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the past they have accused us bakers of stealing and working in the black market for flour.

Hamdy Eid

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You shouldn't hire a person who is convicted of stealing from you to work for you in another position less than a year later.

Henry Sockbeson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

People recognize that a dude in Vermont that currently has people stealing my easily replicable designs, they recognize I need more protection, people recognize that I'm selling T-shirts online, and they're selling sandwiches in airports and malls and stand-alone stores. And there's plenty of room for each of us.

Bo Muller-Moore

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas...

Howard H. Aiken

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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