Sentence examples for dependent on smuggling from inspiring English sources

Libya is twenty miles to the east, and the town is almost entirely dependent on smuggling.

It's a dicey business, dependent on smuggling, bribes, and deceit, but he wins the sympathy of his doctor (Garner), who agrees that the F.D.A. is moving with maddening caution while, across the country, people are dying.

In some areas whole communities were dependent on smuggling, from landowners who might finance the operation down to the fishermen who might be crewing the boats.

And this village's larger twin in Mexico has seen its economy, dependent largely on smuggling, plummet.

Isolated in the remote western provinces of the country and increasingly dependent on gem smuggling for their funding, the Khmer Rouge suffered a series of military defeats and grew weaker from year to year.

Armed groups "have unveiled new rockets and launchers that they have made themselves: a development that makes the militants less dependent on rockets that are smuggled into the Gaza Strip to threaten Israel's main population centres," according to Jane's Intelligence, a London-based consultancy.

They were dependent on no one.

The trip focused on trade and cooperation on people smuggling.

These are villagers that survive on smuggling".

Tough on smuggling, tough on the causes of smuggling.

Clearly, Grenville was serious about clamping down on smuggling.