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Rob \Rob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Robbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Robbing}.] [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub?n, G.
rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. [root]114. See
{Reave},and cf. {Robe}.]
1. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by
stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.

Who would rob a hermit of his weeds,
His few books, or his beads, or maple dish?
--Milton.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all.
--Shak.

To be executed for robbing a church. --Shak.

2. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person,
or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by
violence or by putting him in fear.

3. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously;
to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good
name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.

I never robbed the soldiers of their pay. --Shak.

Since a debtor's money essentially belongs to his or her creditors until the debts are repaid, creditors argue that tithing (typically paying 10% of income to a religious group) is a form of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
"Procurement fraud is robbing the government of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and in some instances costing peoples' lives," chief sponsor William J. Hughes, D-N.J., said following Tuesday's 419-0 vote.
An 82-year-old man accused of robbing a bank and making his getaway on a 10-speed bicycle may be the "salt-and-pepper" bandit wanted in nearly a dozen holdups in the last two years, police said.
The reason: to keep the new Grand Cherokee, which won't make its debut until April 19, from robbing sales from the current Jeep Cherokee.
A mother of three held Wednesday for robbing a bank was apparently frightened that her husband would discover she'd squandered the family's savings, police said.
The gunmen, who were caught robbing the bank Wednesday, threatened to kill their hostages unless they allowed to travel to a nearby airport and leave on a plane, said Ignacio Lara, spokesman for the Sinaloa state governor.
But we had nothing." Crutchley, a former engineer, pleaded guilty in 1986 to raping a 19-year-old woman and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges, including robbing the woman of nearly half her blood.
A bandit with a penchant for robbing banks and a knack for escape is back behind bars because plastic surgery designed to make him look like actor Robert DeNiro failed to fool the feds.
He was convicted July 11 of raping and robbing seven women ranging in age from 18 to 25 years old from September to December last year.
When Jesse Helms or Howell Heflin or George Mitchell come a-begging for help for their textile manufacturers ("America's oldest infant industry," says Mr. Bovard), what they're really doing is robbing the retail industry.
This country badly needs a system which can be relied on to stop a crook robbing a pension fund.
The mere enumeration of those regions shows how the end of the cold war, far from robbing Turkey of its strategic importance as once seemed likely, has promoted it to the very eye of the storm.
More than 100,000 students stayed away from school on Halloween, apparently out of fear; more than 250 high school-age youths were arrested as they roamed the city, robbing, intimidating and assaulting pedestrians and merchants.
In the mode of operation typical of all the crimes, a middle-aged couple threatened a 68-year-old woman with a knife and tied her to a pipe Monday before robbing her Franklin bookstore cash register of $130.
To do so risks robbing it of its lovely freshness.
Two police officers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stopping a teen-ager's car and robbing him of $85.
In addition to robbing the Matewan National Bank branch at Kermit, McCoy was convicted of intimidating federal witnesses and of killing Russell Davis, an accomplice in the robbery, in 1987.
Committee Chairman Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) said administration officials are "robbing Peter to pay Paul," by proposing cuts in the current National Institutes of Health budget.
Fortunately the balance sheet remains strong, although the rights issue could be seen as robbing Peter to pay Paul.
The city fathers in Bonn cancelled the triennial Beethoven Festival, robbing the composer's birthplace of its only musical event of international scale.
It said there is a saying among villagers _ "unearth ancient tombs to get rich and become a millionaire overnight." In one county near Luoyang, 1,000 people from 100 villages are involved in tomb robbing.
A popular high school band director confessed to robbing four banks after his attempt to holdup a fifth was stymied by bank employees who recognized him, authorities said.
Efforts both to secularize and "to mythologize the Christmas story" are robbing it of basic meaning, reducing it "to little more than an elaborate fable," he says.
Christopher Johnson's previous five tries at robbing Boston's Dragon Inn Restaurant, four of them while brandishing a firearm, made it reasonable for employees to assume he was armed when he made a sixth attempt, the court said.
In the Montparnasse neighborhood of southern Paris, gangs started smashing windows and robbing street vendors about two hours after the march started.
A drifter who opened fire with an assault rifle on a crowded schoolyard, killing five children of Southeast Asian refugees, hated Vietnamese immigrants and believed they were robbing native-born Americans of jobs, a former co-worker said.
"The motive was robbing people and assaulting them," Davis said. "I can't believe the fact it was Halloween escaped them." No arrests have been made in the attack.
A gunman, branded by the mayor as the "arch-typical vigilante," is being sought by authorities for allegedly shooting at six young people in a subway station in revenge for them robbing him a day earlier.
Callahan is charged with robbing a tailor shop Dec. 17, then stealing a limousine while the bride and three members of the bridal party were inside.
Failure to do so now would further weaken its authority, robbing the single market of impetus, and ultimately threatening the cohesion of the Community.

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