Sentences with phrase «highway robber»

The Ogun State Police Command has shot dead, a suspected highway robber in the early hours of Sunday.

It is a different word, which primarily connotes not larceny but violence, and was appropriately used of a highway robber or a gangster.

Highway robbers were common in those days, as is evident from the story of the Good Samaritan.

Murderers, horse thieves, highway robbers, and counterfeiters fled here until they combined and actually formed a majority.

In compliance with the directives of Inspector - General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, to clamp down on highway robbers and kidnappers, the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Police Commanded, CP Ali A. Janga, charged all officers of the Command to expand their operational tactics and ensure arrest of all criminal elements terrorizing the State.

Four alleged highway robbers, including three Fulani men, were killed in a gun battle with the police Wednesday evening.

To use another analogy, Kozlowski is first telling us that there are highway robbers out there, but instead of concluding with «so watch out for those highway robbers,» he's saying «this is all the fault of the people who say highways are a good thing.»

The conclusion most investors have reached is that Wall Street is simply a band of marauding highway robbers, happily taking from unsuspecting mom and pop investors.

Although modern day residents aren't concerned with being held up by highway robbers on horseback, they do want to protect themselves financially against vehicle theft and against injuries or property damage caused by an accident.

Not exact matches

Suspected armed robbers have invaded a Pentecoastal Church located at Itanla area along Ondo / Akure highway in Ondo town, carting away cash and other valuables worth millions...

They urged the federal government and security agents to beef up security along the highways to stop the armed robbers from using their uniforms to rob buses on the road.

The Association made the disclosure on Monday when they took to the roads in Onitsha, Anambra State, to protest the killing of their members even as they identified the latest victim, a conductor of Ifeanyichukwu Motors, who was killed along Benue - Nasarawa Highway, by suspected armed robbers in army uniform.

«Give me the... «That was all a would - be robber could say early Tuesday before a dog inside a convenience store attacked him.The man, armed with a pocket knife, entered the Jet Store at 1540 N. U.S. Highway 17 - 92 in south Seminole County about 4 a.m..