What's the difference between robbery and threat?

Robbery


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
  • (n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (2) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
  • (3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
  • (5) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (6) Police chief Wolfgang Albers, 60, had been criticised for the handling of the violence, with a leaked police report describing this week how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city’s train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape.
  • (7) A suspect has been charged with murder and robbery in the case.
  • (8) Two people were arrested on Thursday night following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Selfridges department store in central London .
  • (9) The name, Sallah Ali, that he had given to police when he was arrested for robbery in the south of France 2013, might not be the correct name, he said.
  • (10) James Mason is an IRA man holed up in a safe house, who leaves his confinement to lead a bank robbery.
  • (11) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
  • (12) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
  • (13) But despite the attention to detail with which the robbery was executed, fatal errors soon led the police to the doors of most of those who had participated.
  • (14) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
  • (15) It is the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, on Thursday.
  • (16) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
  • (17) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
  • (18) Photograph: AP Abdeslam, who had had several brushes with the law and spent time in prison for armed robbery in 2010, came agonisingly close to arrest in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but slipped through police hands.
  • (19) For female victims, homicides resulted from disputes in 62.2 per cent of cases, drug-related activities in 13.8 per cent, and robberies in 20.0 per cent of cases.
  • (20) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.

Threat


Definition:

  • (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
  • (n.) To threaten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
  • (5) Newspapers and websites across the country have been reporting the threat facing nursery schools for weeks, from Lancashire to Birmingham and beyond.
  • (6) Unfortunately, peanut reaction is not outgrown and remains a life-long threat.
  • (7) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
  • (8) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (9) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
  • (10) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
  • (11) What are the major threats that face the world's coral reefs and what more needs to be done to protect them?
  • (12) This investigation examined the role of anabolic steroids on baseline heart rate (HR) and HR responses to the threat of capture in Macaca fascicularis.
  • (13) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (14) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
  • (15) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (16) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
  • (17) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (18) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
  • (19) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (20) 8.59pm BST Mary and Paul would have received death threats if Ruby had won, I think.