Sentence examples for criminal power from inspiring English sources

Mr Roberti noted that in Bologna 'Ndrangheta had established "a criminal power network whose expansion has exceeded the worst predictions".

But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be outwitted in any way whatever.

"We have criminal power here," he said, "and there is evidence against Kuchma for the murder of Gongadze".

But by the late nineteen-eighties the Boston Mafia had more or less disappeared, and the new locus of criminal power was Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi.

"I don't agree with the new extension," Mr. Uribe said, "because it will simply fortify the criminal power of the FARC in their effort to take power".

"He was maybe the only one who dared confront the criminal power that was the dictatorship's repression and genocide," said Lorena Pizzaro, who heads a group whose relatives were disappeared.

He outlined new criminal powers to tackle tax evasion although Osborne mentioned them first on BBC Breakfast.

But because the Securities and Exchange Commission does not have criminal powers, these were civil suits that did not carry serious penalties.

Mr. Cuomo sought legislation to expand the attorney general's criminal powers to investigate other forms of political corruption but was rebuffed by the Legislature.

The chancellor has announced what he called "tough new criminal powers" to punish avoiders and the advisers that profit from helping wealthy customers hide their money.

"So it's a whole new set of criminal powers, new fines to make sure we continue the fight against tax evasion and avoidance," Osborne said.