Exempel på purloin

• Associations of this kind excite the imagination and, in so doing, purloin evidence of workable hypotheses by referring the unknown directly to the known.

• While so many unqualified soldiers were kept in the rank-and-file, it was common for officers to purloin the salaries of the unfilled vacancies.

• What mattered was the composers' confidence that, wherever they derived their inspiration, whatever they purloined and treated as their 'heritage', they could assimilate it and make it their own.

• All that stuff about the famous "purloined document" is an example.

• But even then we find some families purloining part of the equipment provided.

• Quite cheekily, they purloined £3 to £4 billion of water assets from local authorities without any compensation.

• Those who fiddle the ballot may purloin the papers or substitute false papers.

• They have been purloined for the benefit of councillors and their families.

• I had purloined it from someone's five small cigarette packet that we had in those days.

• What about the alleged shoplifter who purloins a packet of sweets?

• The academics, if it is academics who wrote the report, have rather purloined the word "detriment" as being a pure economic term.

• Paradoxically, its income, which comes from oil, is increasing, but none of it reaches the inhabitants, being entirely purloined by the ruling classes.

• There is widespread concern about leaked or purloined documents.

• We have some suspicion as to who were responsible for purloining the vehicles.

• I regret to say that the document was somehow purloined, although we tried to keep it to ourselves.