Sentence examples for checked smuggling from inspiring English sources

Pitt imposed new taxes to wipe out the deficit, checked smuggling by reducing the high duties that encouraged it, and reduced frauds in the revenue by establishing an improved system of auditing.

The great opportunity for the opposition came in 1733 when Walpole decided to check smuggling and customs frauds by imposing an excise tax on wine and tobacco.

He is one of hundreds of California inmates subjected to "contraband surveillance watch", a routine procedure the state authorities say is essential to check the smuggling of drugs, weapons and other illicit items in prisoners' digestive tracts, but which critics say is "cruel and unusual" punishment akin to torture.

He said that many citizens complain about being profiled for baggage checks at airport customs lines, ostensibly as a check against smuggling.

Families at Division Six told of male relatives who were serving terms of 15 years and more for petty theft, passing bad checks and smuggling.

Some factory workers say they are checked routinely to ensure they are not smuggling the nutritious nut.

A 31-year-old man who police said tried to smuggle more than 50 pounds of marijuana in checked luggage pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges Friday.

The Libyan navy said that it intercepted the boat when checking for illegal petrol smuggling, and insists that any bullet strikes (MSF say 13 hit the bridge and wheelhouse) were accidental.

This navy's tasks would be to check terrorism on the high seas, smuggling and piracy, and provide humanitarian aid worldwide in catastrophic conditions, as Mullen envisaged it.

He used this opportunity to help the French Resistance: "Though the authorities would check everything, he was able to smuggle a lot of messages in the sample books in his attaché case," Ms. Perrier said.

In an address to Parliament on Monday night, Mr. Tsipras said that Greece's list of "short-term measures" to creditors included curbing fuel and tobacco smuggling, checks on bank transfers and fighting sales tax fraud.