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I bought an anti-theft system for my bike.
Property is theft.
Tom said he had nothing to do with the theft.
The man was charged with theft.
I'd like to report a theft.
This man was charged with theft.
The police accused him of theft.
I reported the theft of my car to the police.
I would like to report a theft.
How do I report a theft?
She is guilty of theft.
Betty has a previous conviction for theft.
He is guilty of theft.
The management wishes to inform guests that the television has been fitted with an anti-theft device.
True art is theft.
Tom was arrested for theft.
The police arrested him for theft.
The police brought a charge of theft against him.
He was accused of theft.
Needless to say, theft was a rare occurrence.
Have you reported the theft to the police?
Movie subtitles
Returning home with bad news, the Marquis tells the Marquise about the theft of both jewels and 250,000 franks.
What day was the theft committed?
This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
Will your. plans be seriously affected by the theft, Helius?
Looks like an attempted theft, but nothing stolen here could be disposed of.
You heard about the big theft in Paris, the pearl necklace.
Not only has she consorted with this Saxon rebel.. foundguiltyof outlawry,theft, murder, abduction and high treason.. butshehasbetrayed her own Norman people.
I regret bitterly, wished to have, last year when I have tried for theft that you have not only wrong crowd.
She was convicted of theft.
The postal theft charge is vile.
Lock up robbery victims, no more complaints of theft!
Fire, earthquake, theft, public liability, group insurance industrial stuff and so on, right down the line.
The punishment for this simple theft is death!
Theft.
I'd forgotten that nowadays most rental cars come with an anti-theft GPS service.
He utilises the light to revenge himself against those who framed him for theft.
Stop allowance of cheese until the theft is made up.
Because it's known that the originals were available for the opening of the exhibition, there is no doubt that these wrong stamps were put there to cover up the theft of the originals.
Not only has she consorted with this Saxon rebel found guilty of outlawry, theft, murder, abduction and high treason but she has betrayed her own Norman people.
They travelled to Lhasa in order to atone for theft, rape and manslaughter, and to appease the Gods regarding future atrocities.
Fire, earthquake, theft, public liability, group insurance. industrial stuff and so on, right down the line.
Well, you think Conover's behind the theft of this pearl?
I take it that Scotland Yard has been notified of the theft of the Borgia Pearl?
Obviously I've been the subject of a scuttles attack in connection with the theft of the Borgia Pearl.
I have followed him for 15 years from his first petty theft up through forgery, blackmail and burglary.
JUWELER ARRESTED This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
Vagrancy, petty theft, resisting police breaking and entering and holdup.
I participated in the theft of the jewelry. - Yes. So what?
As I fell asleep that night in the empty house. I formed an opinion on theft and justice which. is rather a paradox and yet, 40 years of experience. haven't altered it.
They smiled graciously. A moment later I turned up 9, of course. I had the voluptuous joy of sharing my 'theft'. with my wife and my mistress.
At 10, I was saved due to a theft.
If they don't mean any harm, a beating, a theft, and a stabbing are pretty good all in one day.
And the man who painted it is accused of murder and theft.
Will something happen tonight? A crime?..fire, theft, murder or something like that?
It may be piffle in your book. but I say that breaking and entering, theft, perjury, impersonating a soldier. impairing the morals of a minor, jailbreak, with or without conspiracy. et cetera, et cetera, are not piffle!
News and current affairs
If my bicycle is insured against theft, I might buy a cheaper lock for it, making it more likely that it will be stolen.
Currently, the judiciary is incapable of trying a case of petty theft much less of ensuring human rights.
Capitalism is a public trust; it works if everybody has a fair chance and corporate theft receives highly visible punishments.
He was later condemned again for theft, but was pardoned a year before arriving in Italy.
It is a mistake to try to define terrorism in the same way that we define theft or murder.
Every dollar invested in bolstering a country's nuclear arsenal is a diversion of resources from its schools, hospitals, and other social services, and a theft from the millions around the globe who go hungry or are denied access to basic medicines.
They fall easily into violence, theft, and sabotage.
Discipline and restructuring must be imposed on the so called natural monopolies: railways, power utilities and, above all, Gazprom - the country's largest company, and in which there is overwhelming evidence of theft by managers.
In its dispute with Belarus in January 2007, Russia leveled a similar accusation of theft from the oil pipeline that crosses the country.
But freedom and democracy do restrict arbitrariness and theft, and encourage politicians, regardless of their moral qualities, to take public interests into account.
They object to vast differences in wealth and think large accumulations of it must be the product of theft, not work and risk.
The scale of theft achieved by those who ransacked Enron, Worldcom, and other corporations is in the billions of dollars, greater than the GDP of many countries.
Spying is not a violation of international law (though it often violates various domestic laws), but the US argues that theft of intellectual property violates both the spirit and letter of international trade agreements.
Indeed, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) records numerous cases of theft and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive material every year.
But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and weapons are at risk of theft, and reactors can become bombing targets.
In the media, comparisons to Esau's theft of Jacob's birthright and to various Shakespearean tragedies began to abound.
And he did deliver on a major new arms-reduction treaty with Russia, and hosted a summit aimed at reducing the vulnerability of nuclear weapons and materials to theft or diversion.
There was also no discussion of Chinese cyber theft of Western technology.
Many countries have instituted effective measures to prevent the theft, sabotage, or illegal transfer of nuclear or other radioactive material, and security at many nuclear facilities has been improved.
The legislation is meant to comply with Article 23 of the Basic Law, the mini-constitution that governs Hong Kong and that requires the government to enact laws against treason, sedition, subversion, and theft of national secrets.
Though Obama presented evidence to Chinese President Xi Jinping of technology theft by hackers based in China, the Chinese authorities continue to deny it.
But graft and theft are not the only problems.
If the government were truly becoming more responsive, why have we not seen similar responses to other disputes over the theft of farmland, compromised investors' rights, or high-level corruption?
In 1998, when America complained about seven Moscow Internet addresses involved in the theft of Pentagon and NASA secrets, the Russian government replied that phone numbers from which the attacks originated were inoperative.
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