Sentence examples for a sprawling enterprise from inspiring English sources

The drug lord has been found guilty of masterminding a sprawling enterprise of illegal drugs primarily brought into the United States, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Indeed, the Haier Group, a sprawling enterprise ultimately controlled by the city government here, has become China's largest appliance maker, with sales of $3.2 billion last year.

In 1953 he established Linda Vista, S.A., which over the years grew from a six-employee operation to a sprawling enterprise employing more than a thousand people.

"You always said about them, 'best friend, worst enemy.' " Militia and Ministate With a combination of guns and muscle, the Haqqani network has built a sprawling enterprise on both sides of a border that barely exists.

The intelligence community is a sprawling enterprise that includes military officers who track enemy troop movements, accountants who analyze the finances of Islamist militants and engineers who design spy satellites.

A federal grand jury in the United States has charged the operators of a digital currency and money transfer business with running a sprawling enterprise that allegedly helped criminals to launder some $6bn in ill-gotten gains over the past seven years.

Even then, it would not wipe out enough of a vast and sprawling enterprise to set Iran back by more than a few years.

She and her husband work from adjoining offices in a building on K Street, Washington's lobbying corridor, home to the sprawling enterprise that Gingrich aides call "Newt Inc.," which produces books and films at a dizzying pace.

From Pensacola to Key West, the entire sprawling enterprise of clerks and judges and observers came to a halt, whipsawing its participants and leaving much of Florida in a winded state of shock.

This sprawling enterprise was organized over the last dozen years by a few migrant "garbage kings" who have divided up the city of more than seven million people and made fortunes as middlemen.

Although the effort to acquire Compaq was successful, Fiorina subsequently struggled to manage the now sprawling enterprise.