(1) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(2) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(3) This is someone who once stole a three-bedroom house's worth of furniture from Ikea by bypassing the checkouts but still arranged to have it all delivered by them, personally, to her door.
(4) There's been so much abuse heaped upon these communities, and so much rightful anger at the people who stole their lands.
(5) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
(6) Child’s race was always going to be the main show but the dramatic entrance of young English talent stole several scenes and brought medals galore.
(7) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
(8) Mark Zuckerberg, its 26-year-old co-founder, has had to weather lawsuits from people who claim to have built the site with him; in 2008 Facebook paid $65m (£43m) to end claims that he stole the idea ; another case, from a web designer who claims 84% ownership of the site, awaits a hearing in a US court .
(9) Mr Ibrahim said the British adventurer and writer Gertrude Bell "filled two ships with goods she stole from here".
(10) They also took our children and put them in boarding schools and raped them and cut their hair and stole their language.” His grandmother was beaten for speaking her native language, so she did not pass it on to her children, he said, and youth were threatened with jail if they were caught practicing their religion.
(11) "Their doctrine is not to protect the people but to take revenge on those who attacked them and stole their weapons."
(12) Everything he touched, we assume he took, stole,” Flynn said.
(13) The home manager is extremely unlikely to have been impressed by the ease with which Benteke – who has now scored six goals in seven Premier League games against Sunderland for Liverpool and Aston Villa – stole behind Brown and Coates.
(14) This was supposed to be the start of a new era but Dimitri Payet’s magical display stole the show, leading to his manager, Slaven Bilic, labelling the Frenchman a bargain at £10.7m.
(15) Uggie the Jack Russell, who stole the show in Michel Hazanavicius's Oscar-winning The Artist last year, has officially retired from showbusiness in a ceremony at Hollywood's famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre .
(16) Football also evolves, just as the world, cars, computers do, so you have to keep evolving and immersing yourself in those changes.” It was telling that in April, when thieves broke into his parked car and stole various personal belongings, not only did he lose a contacts book with 20 years’ worth of professional associates, but also an iPad containing a draft of the football book he is working on.
(17) Just as the campaign was beginning to regain some normalcy, another intervention stole the spotlight.
(18) Writing in his blog, Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, said : "The very charges underpinning this years-long process … are completely incoherent: you cannot say that someone stole all of Yukos's oil while at the same time sustaining that they had failed to pay taxes on profits made from selling that same oil."
(19) Tesco Bank cyber-thieves stole £2.5m from 9,000 people Read more Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said the discounters were being hit as they were now up against very strong rates of growth a year ago, while Tesco’s resurgence had made life more difficult.
(20) Behr had to separate the women when they literally went for each other's throat: "You stole my child, you communist bitch!"
Stolen
Definition:
(p. p.) of Steal
() p. p. of Steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(4) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(5) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyberattackers, including personnel information and business documents,” it said.
(8) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(9) The stolen babies were well cared for and were usually quickly recovered.
(10) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(11) Not only did a Latino actor not play Tony, who clearly in real life looks like a Chicano, but his ethnicity is stolen from the Latino community at a time when Latinos have been demonized.
(12) More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm.
(13) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(14) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(15) 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.
(16) The German discount supermarket chain Aldi has stolen a march on rivals in Britain by throwing its weight behind a groundbreaking national initiative to back British farmers.
(17) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
(18) Miller said he had been told by police that they would have more information on the stolen property by Wednesday afternoon.
(19) Nigeria's corruption agency says $300bn-$400bn has been stolen or wasted over the last 50 years and campaigners say the Democratic Republic of the Congo received only $86,000 in mineral rights in 2006, despite an estimated $1bn of mineral exports each year.
(20) Blood can be stolen from almost any vascular bed and redistributed.