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"daylight robbery" Definitions
  1. informal
  2. blatant overcharging

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal described surge pricing as "daylight robbery" on Twitter.
They are out to loot the kitty, and are close to getting away with this daylight robbery.
The daylight robbery was the latest high-profile crime to hitCity, where crime has increased during record lawlessness plaguing the country.
The daylight robbery was the latest high-profile crime to hit Mexico City, where crime has increased during record lawlessness plaguing the country.
Gemma also wonders, as does the reader, if the bold daylight robbery has anything to do with another audacious crime, the car bombing on Halloween that killed a retired judge named Caleb Montgomery.
Combining cybercrime with daylight robbery after a typhoon battered greater Taipei, the suspects may have used a cellphone to trigger 41 First Bank ATMs to dispense fat wads of bills, investigators said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. attempts to set preconditions for the return of Russian diplomatic property seized in New York and Maryland are "daylight robbery", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, the RIA news agency reported.
Not only has he threated retaliation if the assets are not returned, but also compared US pre-conditions for the return of the compounds as "daylight robbery," indicating frustration that cyber-related sanctions were still in place.
But the coverage does not reflect that bedrock dynamic; instead we often see stories that focus on the GOP's desperate need to pass "major" legislation before the end of the year, even if that legislation amounts to daylight robbery.
Daylight Robbery is a 2008 British crime film, directed by Paris Leonti and starring Paul Nicholls and Geoff Bell.
Daylight Robbery is a 1964 British film from the Children's Film Foundation.DAYLIGHT ROBBERY Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 32, Iss. 372, (Jan 1, 1965): 108.
"Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie.
29 July 2013. On 28 July 2013 a thief stole $137 million in jewels from the hotel in a daylight robbery (see Carlton Intercontinental Hotel heist). The jewelry was part of a temporary exhibition by mineralogist and Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev called Leviev Diamond House. No suspects have been charged with the heist.
"Daylight Robbery", BBC, 9 June 2008 Dispatches: Iraq's Missing Billions, produced by Guardian Films (March 20, 2006). A blog on Huffington Post alleged that there "immunized foreign contractors" were involved. US courts issued gag orders that prevent the prosecution or defense from discussing the allegations. The orders apply to 70 court cases against some top US contractors.
Following that, she filmed Daylight Robbery and Goal! 3: Taking on the World. In 2009, Lahiri focused on modeling; she was signed to agencies such as Models 1 in London, Next Models in Los Angeles, and MC2 Models in Tel Aviv. She was featured in editorials for She] magazine as well as landing a campaign for Poule de Luxe.
The robbery is known as "Rodda company arms heist". The heist took place on 26 August 1914 and was a very sensational incident. The Statesman, in its edition on 30 August 1914 described the heist as "The greatest daylight robbery". In 1925, the robbery of car by the Jugantar group and in the office of a Businessman in Beliaghata, Kolkata, he assisted Jatindranath Mukherjee.
The 65 Lakh Heist is first English version (translated by Sudarshan Purohit)Sudarshan Purohit is a Bangalore based computer engineer. The next book was Daylight Robbery another Vimal adventure of a Surender Mohan Pathak book. The Hindi crime thriller (:hi:पैंसठ लाख की डकैती, Painsatth Lakh ki Dacoity) Complete Review by M.A.Orthofer was first published in 1977. It was the 4th book in the Vimal series.
Although indicted for the daring daylight robbery, Rio was never brought to trial and the charges dropped."Mail Robbery Suspects Are Held to Grand Jury," Chicago Daily Tribune, October 4, 1921; "$1,000,000 Mail Robbery Solved, Inspectors Say," Chicago Daily Tribune, October 3, 1921. Rio's ability to escape punishment could not be attributed to good luck or innocence but rather to the bribing of judges and the intimidation and murder of witnesses.
The Revolutionary Left Movement split from Democratic Action in 1960 and later supported the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN). The subversive cells carried out some sensational acts, one being the daylight robbery of an exhibition of Impressionist painters sponsored by France at the Venezuelan art museum. In another more deadly action they shot and killed eight Venezuelan soldiers in the back to steal their weapons. Betancourt put his aide Pérez in charge of repression.
The story involves a group of would-be burglars who attempt a daring daylight robbery of a Federal Building in Seattle, Washington. However, the criminals are forced to improvise when their getaway helicopter crashes and sets a deadly fire in the building. Also in the building is a former security guard (Eric Roberts) who is the only person who can stop the heist and save the innocent bystanders who are trapped in the burning building.
"Daylight Robbery" is the album's seventh track, and was produced by Michael Woods. Lyrically, it talks about a guy that "steals your heart and you didn't think it would happen." "Tonight" is a track originally performed and produced by Russian musician DJ Smash and Fast Foods. Originally titled "Wave", the composition was given to Burke to record, and was later covered by Romanian singer Inna for her album Party Never Ends (2013).
Brown also played Evan Marks in the first eighteen episodes of the first season of The CW's Beauty and the Beast. Brown has appeared in films including Turistas (released as Paradise Lost in the UK) and Daylight Robbery. In 2011, he played the role of Wagner in the British independent comedy film Flutter. He also appeared in the last two seasons of the television series The Royals as Prince Robert who later becomes King.
A land bill was introduced by the BJP government in the parliament in May which was criticised by the opposition parties. Accusing the government of "murdering" UPA's land bill, Gandhi promised to prevent the bill from being passed, if not in the parliament then would "stop you [ BJP government] on streets". He further accused the government of diluting the bill and called it as "anti-farmer". Gandhi also drew parallel between "daylight robbery" and the bill.
The cathedral contains the tombs of Charles IX of Sweden, Sten Sture the Elder, Maria of Palatinate-Simmern and Gustaf Otto Stenbock. On 31 July 2018, the burial regalia (two crowns and an orb) of Charles IX and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp were stolen in a daylight robbery with the thieves escaping by boat. In February 2019 it was reported that the regalia had been found and a man was facing trial accused of the theft.
Daylight Robbery is a thrillerThe term is being used here is general sense - we normally call all crime-fiction thriller ( because it thrills us ). But in case of Pathak "thriller" novels only mean those novels that do NOT have Sunil, Vimal or Sudhir ! This is an understanding developed between Pathak and his readers over years. Thus strictly speaking this novel is especially NOT a thriller, being a Vimal Series novel written by Surender Mohan Pathak, a Hindi writer from Delhi, India.
Boxer Sumit Sangwan lost a closely contested bout 14–15 against Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino of Brazil in the light heavyweight category round of 32. The ESPN commentators described the loss as "daylight robbery." India's acting chef-de-mission Brigadier P. K. M. Raja, on the insistence of Sports Minister Ajay Maken, lodged an unsuccessful appeal against the judges' decision believing he had won. A win by Vikas Krishan in the welterweight pre-quarters was overturned after an appeal by the opponent Errol Spence.
This meant that no candidate had the necessary 50% plus one vote to be declared the winner after the first round and a run-off would be needed. MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa called the announced results "scandalous daylight robbery." The MDC continued to assert that it won an outright victory in the first round with 50.3% of the votes. Tsvangirai, who was outside of Zimbabwe, primarily in South Africa, for a significant period following the first round of the election, announced on 10 May that he would participate in a presidential run-off with Mugabe.
The town is most famous for two historic events. On April 21, 1897, Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay held up an employee of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in a daylight robbery at the busy railroad station in Castle Gate, making off with $7,000 in gold. On March 8, 1924, the Utah Fuel Company's Castle Gate Mine #2 exploded, killing 172 miners. It was the third-deadliest disaster in the history of coal mining in the United States at that time, and remains the tenth deadliest at present.
Darryl Michael Roy Read (19 September 1951 – 23 June 2013) was a British singer, guitarist, drummer, actor, poet and writer. In the late 1960s, Read was a member of Crushed Butler, considered by some to be amongst the forerunners of punk rock. He collaborated with musicians such as Bill Legend, Mickey Finn and Ray Manzarek. Read appeared as a child actor in a number of films, including, aged 14, in Daylight Robbery (1964), for which he won a Silver medal for best actor at the Venice Film Festival.
He then played Dick in the 1964 film Five Have a Mystery to Solve, based on an Enid Blyton Famous Five book. He left Corona in 1968 with a small number of film and TV acting credits under his belt including a Venice Film Festival award for his role in the film Daylight Robbery. At 17 Read appeared in Fabulous 208, a teenage magazine. Read had been playing the drums and the guitar at the age of 14, and with Michael Des Barres he formed the rock pop group the Orange Illusion in 1967.
Autumn Rowe co-wrote the song "Fire", which was produced by iSHi. Cutfather and Jason Gill co-wrote and produced three songs for Heartbreak on Hold, "This Love Will Survive", "Between the Sheets" and the second single "Let It Go". DJ Smash and DJ Antoine collaborated for song "Tonight", while English DJ Michael Woods co- wrote and produced "Daylight Robbery". The deluxe edition of the album featured two additional songs, "Devil in Me" and "Beating Still"; Burke also recorded different vocals for acoustic versions of "Heartbreak on Hold" and "Let It Go".
He believes himself to be truly gifted in the art of acting, and often blames his failures on his agent or society itself. He did appear in one episode of EastEnders and often brags about it, delaying for as long as he can the fact that he was in one scene, had one line, and did nothing but buy a cagoule from Bianca Jackson's market stall. He also appeared in Daylight Robbery as an extra, standing in a queue in the background. He had one line but it was cut due to timekeeping.
Dan Noble, also known as Daniel Dyson, (1846-?) was an English gentleman burglar, confidence man, sneak thief and pickpocket active in the United States during the mid-to late 19th century. One of the most notorious criminals in New York City, he was involved in several major robberies in the post-American Civil War era. Among his exploits included the daylight robbery of the Royal Insurance Company in 1866 and was an alleged participant in the theft of $1,000,000 from industrialist Rufus L. Lord arraigned by George Leonidas Leslie in 1876.Asbury, Herbert.
In 1920, through Callahan, Adams formed a partnership with outlaw brothers Ray and Walter Majors and, on September 5, attempted a daylight robbery against a notorious Kansas City gambling den on Grand Avenue owned by Harry Trusdell. However, a shootout between the bandits and tough employees of the illegal casino would result in the death of gambler and gunman Frank Gardner and the eventual capture of the gang by police. Adams was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1921. The Majors brothers received lesser sentences by agreeing to plead guilty to robbery, and were both sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Munch's works are now represented in numerous major museums and galleries in Norway and abroad. His cabin, "the Happy House", was given to the municipality of Åsgårdstrand in 1944; it serves as a small Munch Museum. The inventory has been maintained exactly as he left it. One version of The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery in 1994. In 2004, another version of The Scream, along with one of Madonna, was stolen from the Munch Museum in a daring daylight robbery. These were all eventually recovered, but the paintings stolen in the 2004 robbery were extensively damaged.
Schindler and Bambach are members of the alternative hip hop trio Clouds In A Headlock, where they appear under the names Éph and Lovecraft. Rapper and sound crafter Mattic completes the group, which released their debut mixtape ASMATTIC VOL 1 in April 2020. They are featured on tracks with the likes of The Waxidermist, Daylight Robbery!, Smokey Joe & The Kid, Chinese Man, La Fine Equipe, Wax Tailor and Antiloops Simmons apart from ASM pursues a solo carrier under his stage name Rhino and is part of the Jukebox Champions, together with Blanka from La Fine Equipe.
A Daring Daylight Burglary (also known asA Daring Daylight Robbery) is a 1903 British short silent Western film directed by Frank Mottershaw. The film was produced by the Sheffield Photo Company, and features members from the Sheffield Fire Brigade as part of the cast. Mottershaw also employed actors from local music halls and paid them ten shillings for a day's work. Techniques used in Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (considered to be the first American-made Western filmIt was preceded by the British short Kidnapping by Indians (1899) by several years.), released later the same year, were inspired by those used in Mottershaw's film.
Avoiding the window tax in England One historic example of tax avoidance still evident today was the payment of window tax. It was introduced in England and Wales in 1696 with the aim of imposing tax on the relative prosperity of individuals without the controversy of introducing an income tax. p. 416 The bigger the house, the more windows it was likely to have, and the more tax the occupants would pay. Nevertheless, the tax was unpopular, because it was seen by some as a "tax on light" (leading to the phrase daylight robbery) and led property owners to block up windows to avoid it.
Retrieved 3 April 2015."Daylight robbery? New Scotland Yard is bought for £370m by developer" by Julia Kollewe, The Guardian, 9 December 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2015. At around this time, Curtis Green also designed the Equity and Law Life Assurance Society building in Lincoln's Inn Fields (1936–7). But it was his design of the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane that, according to his biographer, Hubert Worthington, was his best-known building. The Dorchester came about under unusual and difficult circumstances for Curtis Green: the building was initially started by Owen Williams, and had three different architects shortly after, before Curtis Green was asked to take it on.
George, Charlie Burris and two others carried out a daring daylight robbery despite Morris Cahn traveling with a military convoy containing 15 soldiers, two officers, an ambulance, and a wagon from Fort Keogh, which was tasked to collect the army payroll. At a site approximately beyond the Powder River Crossing, near present-day Terry, Montana, there is a steep coulee (known ever since as "Cahn's Coulee"). Approaching the coulee over a plateau, the soldiers, ambulance and the wagon became "strung out", creating large gaps between party members. The gang donned masks and stationed themselves at the bottom of the coulee, at a turn in the trail.
The proposal would change the English name of indigenous Fijians from "Fijians" to itaukei, the Fijian language endonym for indigenous Fijians., Fiji Live (4 August 2008). Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase reacted by stating that the name "Fijian" belonged exclusively to indigenous Fijians, and that he would oppose any change in legislation enabling non- indigenous Fijians to use it."The Name “Fijian” Belongs to Indigenous – Qarase" , FijiVillage, 8 August 2008 The Methodist Church, to which a large majority of indigenous Fijians belong, also reacted strongly to the proposal, stating that allowing any Fiji citizen to call themselves "Fijian" would be "daylight robbery" inflicted on the indigenous population."Communalism is ‘to love thy neighbour'" , Fiji Times (29 August 2008).
Shoot A Line was a "lengthy, lightly-made" bay filly with a white star and white socks on her hind legs bred by her owner Arthur Budgett. She was not a particularly attractive filly, being described by Timeform as resembling "a bag of bones", during the summer of her three-year-old season. Her dam, Death Ray, was a half-sister to the July Cup winner Daylight Robbery and produced several other winners including More Light, a colt who won the Gordon Stakes and the Jockey Club Stakes. Shoot A Line's sire High Line was a specialist stayer who won three runnings of the Jockey Club Cup before becoming a very successful breeding stallion whose other progeny included Master Willie.
The MDC denounced this as "daylight robbery". Biti, speaking from South Africa, alleged that the Electoral Commission had taken 50,000 votes from Tsvangirai and added 47,000 votes to Mugabe's score; he said that "Morgan Tsvangirai is the president of the republic of Zimbabwe to the extent that he won the highest number of votes" and that Tsvangirai must "be declared the president of Zimbabwe". While not entirely ruling out Tsvangirai's participation in a run-off, Biti reiterated the MDC's view that conditions in Zimbabwe did not allow for one to be held. He said that "Tsvangirai should be allowed to form a government of national healing that includes all Zimbabwean stakeholders", but said this was conditional on Mugabe immediately conceding defeat.
Sports echoed those sentiments, writing the fight was a "a thrilling war" in which boxing fans "got their money's worth" and that "it wasn't daylight robbery, at all" despite his personal scorecard favoring Kovalev by a point. Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook, who scored the fight 115-112 for Kovalev, considered it a "tough [fight] to score, with plenty of rounds that could have gone either way" and characterized it as a "debatable" decision rather than a "robbery." In the aftermath of the fight, The Ring elevated Ward from No. 4 to No. 2 in its pound-for-pound rankings, behind No. 1 Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, and dropped Kovalev one spot to No. 3. Ward also supplanted Kovalev as the magazine's No. 1 ranked light heavyweight, with Kovalev falling to No. 2.
After leaving EastEnders in 1998 (when her character met an untimely demise offscreen), her career flourished with a series of drama roles. These include: two series of Real Women (BBC One); two series of Sunburn (BBC One), for which Collins sang the theme song (which was a no. 28 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1999); Daylight Robbery (ITV); The Sleeper (BBC One); Uprising (ITV): three series of Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC One): the two-part series Perfect (ITV); Lloyd and the Hill (ITV) and Ella and the Mothers (BBC One). In 2003 Collins played Sarah Barton in Single. In 2003, Collins filmed the BBC drama Sea of Souls and then went on to star in a film for Granada/Channel 4 called The Illustrated Mum, which told the story of two girls coping with the unpredictable behaviour of their depressed, alcoholic mother.
BBC News, 12 September 2012. Retrieved on 2013-07-29. Alice in Wonderland (1903) In 1903 Urban formed the Charles Urban Trading Company, which produced early colour films using his patented Kinemacolor process. This was later challenged in court by Greene, causing the company to go out of business in 1915. In 1903, Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow directed Alice in Wonderland, the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 1903 Frank Mottershaw of Sheffield produced the film A Daring Daylight Robbery, which launched the chase genre. In 1911 the Ideal Film Company was founded in Soho, London, distributing almost 400 films by 1934, and producing 80. In 1913 stage director Maurice Elvey began directing British films, becoming Britain's most prolific film director, with almost 200 by 1957. In 1914 Elstree Studios was founded, and acquired in 1928 by German-born Ludwig Blattner, who invented a magnetic steel tape recording system that was adopted by the BBC in 1930.
Ryūichi (Riki Takeuchi) is the leader of a small gang of nikkei gangsters operating in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, made up of his childhood friends, Satake (Hitoshi Ozawa), Mariko (Mizuho Koga), Hoshiyama (Ryuushi Muzkami) and Hitoshi (Kyousuke Yabe). They pull off a daring, broad daylight robbery of a truck carrying money out of a business run by Aoki (Renji Ishibashi), a local yakuza boss who is in the middle of negotiating a territory deal with a triad gang led by Mr. Chen (Shingo Tsurumi). Humiliated by the public loss of money at the hands of petty crooks, Aoki turns to Detective Jojima (Show Aikawa) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, instructing him to find the culprits of the robbery and turn them over to him. Jojima is heavily in debt to Aoki, since he and his wife (Kaoru Sugita) borrowed money to pay for a surgery that his daughter required to save her life.
He began acting in television in the early 1970s, usually playing heavies or policemen, though he spent four years performing classic plays with the National Theatre. In 1990, he joined the BBC One soap opera EastEnders as pub landlord Eddie Royle; however, he only lasted just over a year in this role as his character was killed off in September 1991. His character was stabbed by Nick Cotton (John Altman) who was later tried for the murder but cleared. After leaving EastEnders, he appeared as Frank Dagley on Dangerfield; and, more recently, Jerry Block for over a hundred episodes of the footballing soap opera Dream Team. His rugged features have led to parts in numerous crime dramas: The Sweeney, ‘’The Gentle Touch’’, Fox, The Bill, Minder in the Series 1 episode Monday Night Fever, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Campion, The Chinese Detective, Dempsey and Makepeace, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Maigret, The Detectives, Daylight Robbery and New Tricks.

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