1.   Did you intend them as a short-term loan, retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over, or was it more in the line of outright theft?

2.   Indians see these measures as a continuation of a long history of broken treaties and outright theft.

3.   Instances of outright theft, where buyers send off their checks and never receive their booty, although far rarer, have also occurred.

4.   It has become difficult at times to distinguish among domain-name speculation, cybersquatting and outright theft.

5.   Most frighteningly, Van Dusen realized, there was nothing his company could have done to definitively protect itself from such outright theft in the future.

6.   Primakov stood in the way of those in Russia who had illegally accumulated tremendous wealth, who had grabbed vast amounts of property through corruption and outright theft.

7.   The act outraged Gates, of the company then spelled as Micro-Soft, who saw nothing but outright theft in the stunt.

8.   The difficulty in stopping fraudulent advertising and outright theft is that auctions have grown far more quickly than law enforcement budgets.

9.   The risks of fixed games or outright theft are among the reasons that opponents cite in seeking to keep gambling off the Internet.

10.   Though outright theft is the exception, some officials say slack financial oversight has become commonplace.