Brick by brick, they were isolating him from a lifetime of memories--and systematically robbing him of every skill he'd ever come to take for granted.

And when you are the richest man in the Universe and someone is systematically robbing your various banks blind you'd better set the best thief ever to catch your thief.

Let me say that the most unpleasant disgraceful episode in this whole affair is the sight and sound of politicians who systematically robbed the btaxpayer talking about the lack of morals on the part of the rioters.

So far, 46 traders have been charged with trading practices that the Federal Government says systematically robbed the trading public on a major scale.

It is a terrestrial snake, but will readily climb trees and bushes, and shows considerable agility in for example systematically robbing the nests of the Sociable Weaver.

"But how are we to protect the West if we set about systematically robbing ourselves of opportunities to know and study it?"

If Rod Calligan were systematically robbing gravesites and caching the artifacts at the mall to be dug up in the course of excavation, it explained just about everything anomalous.

"These desperate candidates are just upset because Eliot has been tough on their special interests - the big businesses that were systematically robbing everyday New Yorkers," Mr. Toohey said.

Congo is extremely vulnerable to merciless neighbouring countries, which by military force are systematically robbing the country of its principal sources of income.