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Example sentences for: theft

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The throwing out of Paula Jones' harassment case against President Clinton led the last editions of all the British broadsheet newspapers Thursday, but the tabloids preferred the theft of love letters from the late Diana, Princess of Wales, to her ex-lover, James Hewitt.
The mildest of the reported cases--most of them the products of our traditional system of loving care--involve the simple theft by doctors, dentists, nursing homes, chiropractors, and the like of thousands, often millions of dollars (or sometimes drugs) from federal and state governments.
The LAT leads with news that the Los Angeles police scandal is mushrooming, based on a reporter's unadvertised attendance at a special briefing for LAPD officers at which they were told that investigators are now looking into seven questionable shootings of Angelenos, and into the police theft and resale of street drugs.
Or it may be an external event that involves interaction between an entity and its environment, such as a transaction with another entity, an act of nature, theft, vandalism, a tort caused by negligence, or an accident.
Aquinas considered detractio more seriously wicked than theft, because "reputation is more valuable than riches."