| Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items. |
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| Oh, yes, we thought it fair game to try and steal other people wood but woe betide anyone who tried to pilfer ours. |
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| He wants the horse doctor to hurry up and come over so that he can pilfer some horse tranquilizers. |
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| Within a population of scatter hoarders, the ability of individuals to pilfer food from one another probably varies. |
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| After all, these nightly visitors aren't there to snitch snapdragons or pilfer peas. |
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| It would have been a simple matter to pilfer their tawdry Christmas illuminations in order to gain one-upmanship this year. |
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| For example, yellow pine chipmunks and deer mice pilfer each other's cached seeds under wet conditions. |
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| His second novel, All Hat, was a modern horse opera about an ex-con who's forced to pilfer a prize-winning steed. |
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| It was never intended to shield people who commit fraud, pilfer the public purse, or pose a danger to their fellow citizens. |
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| Tork Advanced jumbo bath tissue's high capacity provides fewer refills and reduces labor. Large size is pilfer proof, hard to conseal. |
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| An electro-magnetic pilfer safeguard, accessible only by using a controller from inside the building, locks and unlocks the front panel. |
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| But Julius and his comrades continued to pilfer American secrets for years after the defeat of fascism. |
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| Frankly, with a vast online knowledge base at your fingertips, it would be a miracle if people didn't swipe a phrase here or pilfer a juicy paragraph there. |
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| Ahmad manages to pilfer a box of medicine, but it's not enough. |
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| They turned out to be perfect for small, hard-to-store items, like floss, sunscreen, and the scads of miniature soaps and shampoos I like to pilfer from motels. |
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| Diesel engines were once very crude things, often doing their best to pilfer ideas from the best petrol engines in order to imbue them with some semblance of bearability. |
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| Blending into the store environment with an ordinary looking bag or jacket, the shoplifter is able to pilfer items virtually unnoticed. |
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| Video stations can be optionally fitted with an electromagnetic pilfer safeguard. |
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| The pilfer safeguard protects mail from unauthorized access without impeding the posting of mail. |
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| On the east coast, violent gangs pilfer oil from Pemex, the state oil company. |
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| So long as his interest in money does not encourage him to pilfer the nation's wealth, his competence should help it prosper. |
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| But the IMF, for one, warns that it can build up again. Shahbaz Sharif, who has a national role helping the prime minister on economic policy, says that many consumers continue to pilfer electricity and gas. |
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| The Privacy Act was never intended as an instrument to conceal wrongdoing, or to shield people who commit fraud, pilfer the public purse, or who pose a danger to their fellow citizens. |
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