Sentences with phrase «pilfering from»

While iOS was merrily pilfering from Android and even BlackBerry, OS X took a little bit of inspiration from Microsoft's OS.

Uncharted might have raided Tomb Raider for inspiration but this time it's Lara that's pilfering from Sony's Indiana Jones homage.

Now having scraped the last it can from Grand Theft Auto's barrel, Saints Row has started pilfering from other open - world playgrounds.

Set in Tokyo, it is a tale of a ragbag family led by the Fagin - like Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), who works a construction job but really spends time pilfering from supermarkets.

But there went my rhubarb aspirations, now I'm just left pilfering from others — not that I would actually steal someone else's rhubarb, I would never do that...... ever.

They often find ways of pilfering from their jobs, or they hustle as entrepreneurs.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

Hackers have been showing an increasing interest in pilfering it from people's Bitcoin wallets.

This festive recipe was created in - part by my toddler who, while I was making breakfast, boldly handed me two bags of chocolate she pilfered from the pantry.

:] I have a similar recipe that I pilfered from my church after I got to try it when they made it for Easter morning breakfast!

The front pocket makes it easy to reach wipes even the backseat of the car while in the parking lot when your kid says they have sticky hands from the three suckers they pilfered from the bank, which turned their mouth completely blue.

Once a pitcher starts «aiming his pitches,» as the commentators call it, their voices heavy with foreboding, it usually isn't very long before he's back riding a tractor near the house he was born in, cursing his mental apparatus and simultaneously using it to figure out how much he can get for the sweat - stained athletic supporter he pilfered from an all - star teammate.

To avoid giving themselves away, sweetheart scammers often use stock photography or photos pilfered from obscure places on the Web to fill out their dating profiles.

About all that isn't pilfered from Gunga Din is the death of the noble bugler; Davis survives being shot up by the Indians with little more than a flesh wound!

By mimicking the sound of every Hot Topic band crashing into one — with songs that pilfer from the Killers, My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy — we have to wonder if they haven't just orchestrated their own extinction.

Like the movie's young, confused hero Jamie — played by newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann — the writer - director grew up in the Southern California during the end of the Carter era, listening to punk records pilfered from his older sister.

Problems ensue after the script, pilfered from David's neighbor Toni (Parker), takes on a life of its own and receives the go - ahead to start shooting, leaving David with no choice but to direct the movie himself (albeit with a substantial amount of help from Toni).

Multiple other smaller elements are pilfered from other stuff such as the gun (see judge dredd's lawgiver).

Of course, some objects are more effective than others — I'd much rather take a halberd pilfered from a medieval shop shelf into battle than, say, a food court tray — but anything Frank can carry will eventually kill a zombie if you just keep using it as a bludgeon.

Strained of much of its Englishness by the casting of American leads and a relocation from 1892 England to 1930 Italy, A Good Woman earns most of its good will from those Wildean epigrams, many pilfered from elsewhere in the writer's repertoire.

Pegg and Frost have faith in their plot, and that dedication keeps the film engaging and unpredictable, even while it lovingly pilfers from some of the most famous sci - fi blockbusters around.

To manage this extra speed, four - wheel discs were pilfered from the contemporary Lincoln Mark VII, while a Hurst shifter and closely - spaced pedals made quick shifts easier.

Many in northern climes may disagree, although it's hard to see why — with all - season tires and a sophisticated multi-link rear suspension pilfered from the parts bin of Chrysler's former Mercedes - Benz partnership, traction is rarely an issue even in inclement weather.

Starting with the most fun, the Chevy SS Sport concept — or SSS, as we've been calling it — is slathered in a color called Some Like It Red Hot, pilfered from its Australian paint bin.

It is on the prodigious research and love of trivia that inform Mr. Brown's stories (this one makes mincemeat of all those factoid - heavy wannabes, like Matthew Pearl's «Dante Club»), the ease with which he sets them in motion, the nifty tricks (Dante's plaster death mask is pilfered from its museum setting, then toted through the secret passageways of Florence in a Ziploc bag) and the cliffhangers.

For my mother, the security problems began with small incidents: items pilfered from an unlocked car, a purse grabbed from a front room while she was in the backyard.

Mega Man launches every unique utility item and weapon in his accumulated arsenal — more than 100 power - ups pilfered from his many mechanical enemies — but this Hard Hat proves his most challenging and persistent foe to date.

The bashful Curry, also 37, was raised in San Antonio, Texas, and first studied Picasso and Dalí in books pilfered from the public library.

They ordered the Navy to not buy any biofuels if they are more expensive than fuels we currently pilfer from the planet's treasury.

Even so, he worried that e-mails pilfered from a British university would fuel skepticism among those who believe that scientists exaggerate global warming.

When Prof. Borrows returned my essay, one of his marginal comments asked, «Are there any settled questions,» a term I had presumably pilfered from some Court decision.

Your bags arrive at your stateroom, but the little jewelry pouch you shoved deep in a shoe was pilfered from your bag somewhere in transit.

Sure viewpoint could survive by breaking the intent of the MLS and various association rules, use the CB and PropertyGuys to save it some cash and even pilfer from Bill's fellow association members, but that is all in the past.

I hung the scroll and layered an assortment of faux and dried flower stems (berries pilfered from the bushes in my yard).

I handed her the treat — pilfered from high tea at a fancy hotel — as I was frantically getting ready for lunch at a friend's place.

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Even if there's no official reprimand or action from management, a reputation for pilfering food may erode the thief's standing in that workplace, creating a situation where he or she no longer fits with the office culture, Schawbel said.

Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer has given the boot to her second in command, Henrique de Castro, just a little over a year after pilfering the exec from rival Google.

It was just over a year ago that Mayer pilfered de Castro from Google - her old stomping grounds - to serve as the company's «top ad executive and liaison to marketers on Madison Avenue,» reports The Wall Street Journal.

And the pilfered ring actually led to Kraft getting a call from the White House, asking for the owner to be diplomatic about it.

He stopped short of apologizing and didn't answer some of the questions raised since the news broke Friday that Cambridge Analytica pilfered sensitive information from tens of millions of Facebook users.

Together, they orchestrated one of the largest thefts of consumer data in history: pilfering detailed user information from more than 500 million Yahoo accounts, including those of...

I suspect we are embarrassed about hell because the idea of eternal torment for every sin from rape to pilfering is self - evidently unfair.

When Roy Goode (Jack O'Connel, who you may remember from the WWII epic Unbroken) interrupts a robbery and takes off with Griffin's recently pilfered cash, Griffin will ride the entire New Mexico territory in search of retribution.

Rabbit is enraged, for instance, that his son has turned out to be such a failure, a cocaine addict who has pilfered the profits from the family's once - thriving Toyota dealership.

here when I pilfered your recipe from the Facebook page.

They quietly pilfered young talent from other teams and through their own system.

I truly love the wardrobe refresh that comes from pilfering my friends» closets.

«Gone are the times when a minister can pilfer billions of dollars as easy as plucking a piece of candy from the table,» he stated.

ALBANY — The former head of a prominent South Bronx charity was arrested Wednesday morning for pilfering hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization, authorities said.

The daughter of former tough - on - crime Mayor Rudy Giuliani was busted yesterday for pilfering products from a trendy cosmetics store near her Upper East Side home, police said.