Sentence examples for crime underworld from inspiring English sources

The attacks are a vital component of Mexico's organised crime underworld, and constitute a criminal industry estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars per year.

Long on the F.B.I.'s Most Wanted list, Mr. Bulger was believed to have been the king of Boston's crime underworld while he was acting as an informer.

Mr. Bulger is set to be tried in June on a sweeping racketeering indictment that charges him with crimes, including involvement in 19 murders, that he is said to have committed while acting as the king of Boston's crime underworld.

Mr. Bulger, who prosecutors said acted as an F.B.I. informer while playing a leading role in Boston's crime underworld, faces charges including 19 murders at a trial now scheduled to begin March 4 , 2013

Instead, Prohibition failed to even meaningfully reduce U.S. rate of alcohol consumption, but did create a massive organized crime underworld.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement is the dominant party in the murky, organized crime-run underworld of Karachi's politics.

"We also know that hotels have had feedback from guests of different cultures and nationalities saying they were upset by seeing begging and think there are other crimes or underworld activities going on that they should be afraid off".

He was a fast-talking, ­cigar-chomping, easy-­laughing, profanity-­spilling bon vivant who was fascinated with crime and the underworld.

It all comes full circle in the way that prominent underworld crime figures — predominantly those from Melbourne — are often referred to in the media with a wink as "flamboyant horse-racing personalities".

TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI Jacques Becker's 1953 portrait of a stylish middle-aged thief named Max (the incomparable Jean Gabin) set the standard for the French underworld crime capers to follow, yet it retains a mellow kick all its own.

But though it is partly an underworld crime story, "Ajami" uses the genre as a way of exploring the conditions in which its characters live as well as their psychological complexities.