Make off with belongings of others.
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Examples for "lift "
1 However, positive results from Commerzbank gave a lift to banks across Europe.
2 People in Peruvian markets say the government needs to help lift demand.
3 Analysts said that strong capital position could help to lift future dividends.
4 As soon as the lift doors open, he knows there's a problem.
5 Analysts said activity by state-linked funds was helping to lift the market.
1 As a result, he allowed the private sector off the financial hook .
2 The longer it takes systems to hook up, the slower manufacturers' sales.
3 Thought I'd ask, she says, letting me off the hook too easy.
4 Never mind: any moment now she would let him off the hook .
5 Does it merely facilitate quick and easy hook - ups or actually encourage them?
1 It was still distant, abstract : battles at sea thousands of miles off.
2 Part of the problem is that microformats are thus far very abstract .
3 Freedom -rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract , yes?'
4 ITF's interest in Ireland's rescue services therefore is not an abstract thing.
5 The idea of vegetation in general is too abstract to be primitive.
1 A clear view in every direction, no possibility of a sneak attack.
2 If so, an American sneak attack might set off a nuclear war.
3 Police had arrested 174 people for trying to sneak across the border.
4 Knight and DeJesus would sneak food to each other, this source said.
5 He managed to sneak straight into the house without my seeing him.
1 For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch .
2 Union members feel the economic pinch and so they need wage increases.
3 It is not just soccer in Europe that is feeling the pinch .
4 So in some pricey places, the new limits will really pinch borrowers.
5 Curbing that enthusiasm with a pinch of realism is another matter however.
1 Other good sources of calcium include dairy products, Chinese cabbage , and sardines.
2 Spare lived on in the old hut, and worked in the cabbage - garden .
3 The steel price in China is now cheaper per tonne than cabbage .
4 Good solid bacon and cabbage medicine that is always there when needed.
5 Tip: Do try to use organic cabbage if you can find it.
1 However, the gesture-tracking platform is at least one hand - swipe closer to reality.
2 From here, simply swipe right on the location you wish to remove.
3 Better yet, they're one of the signs most likely to swipe right.
4 The trouble began when a swipe card time recording system was introduced.
5 She also took a veiled swipe at his single-payer health care plan.
1 Malvolio would walk mincingly in the sunshine there; Autolycus would filch purses.
2 But the allopaths are such mean fellows they filch all our ideas.
3 I shall perch myself there like a sacred hawk and filch her likeness.
4 If I am obliged, I would snatch them and filch them.
5 It was, indeed, an early trick of his Lordship to filch good things.
1 Greed often causes people to steal and pilfer for no good reason.
2 He was a poet, he didn't need to pilfer from others' correspondence.
3 Certain guests had a tendency to pilfer from the Pine Cone's refrigerator.
4 A rather fat soldier attempted to pilfer a horse from a dooryard.
5 Did she get rid of me so she could pilfer my closet?
1 Email and networks have increased the chances for governments and companies to purloin data.
2 Somehow he'd managed to purloin a scalpel, we don't know exactly where or how.
3 The lady referred to took it upon herself to purloin the flower she wanted.
4 They need caretakers; respecterble women, that would sooner cut out their tongues than purloin .
5 She will usually attempt to purloin some trinket or other and be caught again.
1 At the very least, she wanted to snarf some overpriced, high calorie, high cholesterol food at this torturous party.
2 Ethan, were you surprised by the Snarf plan after signing on?
3 Early on, there were a lot of people who did not want Snarf to appear.
4 The method is based on flow cytometry and employs the pH-dependent fluorescent probe carboxy SNARF - 4F .
5 The Snarf one was the easiest one to buy.
Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom.
1 With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
2 We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble ?
3 Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
4 Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
5 Attempts had been made to " nobble " a referee.
6 There was a particular old Labour grandee who used to nobble me in order to give me 'sound advice'.
7 She did it for Ronnie a while back when there was talk of someone trying to nobble his horses.
8 Such things could well and truly nobble a band from the outset, but Edinburgh's Broken Records seem to be made of sterner stuff.
9 If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
10 The suspicion is that the Treasury was simply nobbled by bookies' lobbyists.
11 Nobble they thought was the foulest place which they had ever seen.
12 If anybody had done well at Nobble , Mr. Crinkett had done well.
13 Then Downing Street briefed about how it had nobbled the foreign secretary.
14 Environmental lawyer Simon Berry said DOC had been ' nobbled ' by the previous government.
15 More art: how litigation and forgeries are nobbling the art trade.
16 She could not account for the absence of the Nobble postmark.
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