1.   The Asian community in the Phoenix area had also been subjected recently to violent robberies by Asian gangs.

2.   Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop.

3.   Brazilian banks, concerned with a recent wave of violent robberies and kidnappings, plan to limit late-night withdrawals at automatic teller machines.

4.   -- Brazilian banks, concerned with a recent wave of violent robberies and kidnappings, plan to limit late-night withdrawals at automatic teller machines.

5.   Butler has a record of a half-dozen arrests in violent robberies, and Santos, who has a record of arrests for robberies, was on parole when arrested.

6.   Cotino said the men lived off crime, mainly stolen credit cards and violent robberies.

7.   Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxi cabs.

8.   Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxicabs.

9.   Dinner conversation in Mexico City inevitably turns to accounts of violent robberies committed on streets, in buses or in taxi-cabs.