Embezzlement, e.g

Usage examples of theft.

The Word and, in particular, the precepts of the Decalog are the means with those who acknowledge all kinds of murder, adultery, theft and false witness to be sins.

But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.

Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.

Hatred does, and revenge, theft and fraud, adultery and whoredom, pride and presumption, and the rest.

They know and perceive, therefore, that murder, adultery, theft and false witness are sins and accordingly shun them on that account.

Lyal, Sieur Den Rannion, to Ingaret, Messire Den Perinal, by the hand in person of Milral Arman, of common height with red hair and blue eyes, a scar on his sword arm and a brand of horse theft on his off hand.

He urged Bott to notify the police of the theft, but the old man was prostrated with grief, and it was the wife who, with Ellen Chancy, finally accompanied Flechter to Police Headquarters.

The administration slices crime horizontally into categories: theft, bunco, vice, homicide.

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

Old Conc might have educated them in the arts of primitive war, but both tribes observed strict prohibitions against theft.

Suppose that the cryptanalyst obtains the plaintext of a given cryptogram, perhaps through theft or the error of a radio operator.

Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape, narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.

I was much pleased, for I had been afraid that the women had gone out to get assistance and to have us arrested, and the robbery of our provisions reassured me, as I felt certain that the poor wretches had gone out of the way so as to secure impunity for their theft.

God knows how gladly I would have taken them, and how I would have laughed the monk to scorn if he had accused me of theft!

If I had not succeeded in bringing a certain theft home to him, it would have been laid to my door, and I should have been dishonoured.