"The record amply supports the jury's determination that Marshall committed a series of larcenous acts, " the appellate judges wrote.

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Systems also keep money from the hands of larcenous toll booth employees.

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Robbins likes to say that he grew up in an oxymoron, with his pious father on one side and two larcenous half brothers on the other.

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The rationale behind taking property from a taxpaying owner and giving it to a seemingly larcenous tenant is that every piece of land should enjoy its best possible use.

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Powerful lobbyists and a torrent of money to both the Left and Right distort economic activity and steal from the nation but guarantee magnificent riches to the privileged, cronied, and larcenous.

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Lawyer friends tell me that the plain tiffs who bring test cases, the suits that change laws overturning discriminatory statutes, for instance are often cranky, obsessional people (not debonair dinner guests at all), and the same is often true of whistle-blowers, who try, sometimes without success, to alert the world to grand-scale larcenous behavior.

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