Sentence examples for clandestine movement from inspiring English sources

Smuggling, conveyance of things by stealth, particularly the clandestine movement of goods to evade customs duties or import or export restrictions.

Even with the most sophisticated intelligence hardware, including spy satellites, it is difficult to spot the clandestine movement of small containers of plutonium or enriched uranium.

And seven years after its return from exile, it has neither shaken its reputation as being beholden to Iran nor has it managed to outgrow the reflexive suspicion of a clandestine movement.

The government has portrayed the group as a clandestine movement of foreign-backed militants, citing as evidence the use of explosives, the blocking of roads and burning of tires during violent confrontations with the police.

In the 18th century, Quicavi was the center of a clandestine movement of Huilliche Indian warlocks, who used curses and poisonous potions to resist the Spanish colonial landowners around this island, called Isla Grande de Chiloe.

Many smuggling agents are ethnic Kurds, who are often persecuted and hunted in their homelands -- mostly Iraq and Turkey -- and are therefore familiar with the vagaries and demands of clandestine movement.

Since Mr. Ch z rose to power 11 years ago, clandestine movements and relocations of militants from Mexico and Cuba to Venezuela have increased, and there are now dozens of ETA militants living in Venezuela, according to Mr. El?and other Spanish intelligence specialists.

In May, the FARC set up a clandestine political movement named after Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan-born independence leader whom Mr Chavez reveres.

Contrary to what the sceptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, Nasa and the world's leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth.

Garrett is introduced to Orion, the leader of a clandestine resistance movement, by his old friend and fence, Basso, and embarks on a series of burglaries that may have far-reaching implications for the city and its inhabitants.

But the offer set off fierce criticism that Mr. Clinton risked reinvigorating the Puerto Rican clandestine independence movement, and speculation that the president was trying to help Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign in New York, which has a large Puerto Rican population.