Sentence examples for gang power from inspiring English sources

Gang power and police corruption are at the centre of the action, seen through the eyes of an English policeman who has a Jamaican father.

"This gives the gangs power in the sense that they can threaten the government with resuming violence at any time," said influential blogger James Bosworth.

The gang's power extended far beyond their Tijuana headquarters.

That vastly overstates the gang's power, but, in some ways, undersells it, too.

To tell young people not to vote is crazy because we'll get the same old gang in power.

Its flaw, though, is that it usually prevents any decent alternative to the gang in power from emerging.Anyway, the bogeyman threat is even less convincing in Pakistan than it was in Russia.

Twenty-one different organizations make up Japan's yakuza, but the Yamaguchi-gumi was the gang whose power the police most feared.

Kabaservice reached back almost 20 years to the last time GOP zealots shut the government and reminded us that it was "moderates" that put the Gingrich Gang in power in 1995 in the first place.

Andrew Veyette's Riff and Justin Peck's Bernardo led the rival gangs with power; Mr. Peck made an especially fine effect of the moment when Bernardo's blade enters Riff's body, calmly holding a firm line through his whole body from foot to blade.

On Long Island and in suburbs across the country, Garland writes, gangs' "rise to power revealed not what the gangs offered to a new generation of immigrants and their children, but what America did not".

Mr. Coke's case shed light on the longstanding practice in Jamaica of politicians and gang leaders sharing power, for the benefit of both.