Sentence examples for ambitious criminal from inspiring English sources

In a report that appeared to suggest a more ambitious criminal scheme, The Beijing Evening News cited an unidentified source as saying that someone had cut off the electricity to at least part of the museum before the display cases were robbed, depriving the museum's surveillance center of video.

Their authors root their familiar plots in an authentically recreated British underworld: in the first, an ambitious criminal spreads his tentacles across the city to establish his power, in the other a disoriented ex-convict is released into a once familiar milieu he no longer recognises.

In August, Booker unveiled an ambitious criminal justice reform agenda, which included ending the use of private prisons and eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders.

As always, today's most ambitious criminals come from the world's poorest, toughest precincts, notably Russia, if the newspapers can be believed.

Two noisome low-lifes just out of jail are hired by an ambitious minor criminal ("we're not the very smartest guys in the world," he rightly observes) to rob a backroom poker school with the intention of framing another guy for the job.

Defy seeks out ambitious ex-criminals with managerial experience and trains them.

Eventually, many more Mexican (and Guatemalan) special forces soldiers, and ambitious common criminals, would follow.

The jury is out on whether his ambitious pursuit of a criminal trial here helped sexual-assault victims as much as his own profile and career.

The split verdict today in the trial of two Libyans charged in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 brought to a muddled close a prosecution that represented one of Washington's most ambitious attempts to use criminal law as a weapon against a horrific act of international terror.

One of America's most ambitious and most controversial criminal justice reforms is on the ballot in Ohio.

Mr. Whitmire has been hailed for his ambitious work in overhauling the criminal justice system, but over the years his personal business dealings have demonstrated just how blurry the lines can get between a lawmaker's public duties and private interests.