31.   A couple of the Avoriaz buildings were defaced by graffiti this winter, and some petty thieves were also on the prowl.

32.   Apparently stolen by a petty thief who mistook it for a laptop, the bag was quickly recovered.

33.   As in most other African nations, police in Kenya routinely beat back crowds with bullwhips and clubs and routinely beat confessions out of petty thieves.

34.   He said the dissidents were being treated like petty thieves.

35.   However, despite its plot sophistication, it fails to be anything more than a straightout chronicle of conniving petty thieves.

36.   However, most killings are the work of poor people taking out their frustrations on petty thieves, beating, stoning and hacking them to death.

37.   Joko discovers that Razi is a petty thief whose mischief causes people to cast suspicions on one another.

38.   None of the escapees, mostly drug dealers and petty thieves, have been recaptured, Bonjardim said.

39.   One neighbour said police suspected the break-ins were not the work of petty thieves.

40.   Stereotypes of the Roma -- that they are petty thieves, beggars and general lawbreakers -- are rarely challenged by local media or public officials.