Sentence examples for gangs back from inspiring English sources

"We weren't known as gangs back then," Mr. Chute said.

Mr. Torcellini's greenhouse wouldn't look out of place on a wayward space station where pioneers have gone to escape the cannibal gangs back on Earth.

In one video posted on YouTube, the US ambassador was supposedly giving an "advanced air defence system" to "some gangs back in our neighbourhood".

That terrible, senseless act of violence has catapulted LA's battle with street gangs back into the public gaze - and sparked fresh debate about the way the City of Angels deals with its huge immigrant population.

The proportion of cocaine imports entering the United States via the islands is rising (see article), as clampdowns in Central America and Mexico push drugs gangs back to their old haunts.The revival in Caribbean drugs traffic is just the latest example of the "balloon effect", in which squashing down on illicit activity in one place causes it to pop up somewhere else.

Many feared for their lives because of violent gangs back home.

Throughout much of the 19th century gangs backing rival ayatollahs clashed in the holy city of Najaf.

Mr. Assad's government has contended that the uprising is really a crime wave by gangs backed by hostile foreign powers.

Syria says it is facing "armed terrorist gangs" backed by a conspiracy of its Arab and western enemies, not unarmed popular protests.

Salim Lone, Mr. Odinga's spokesman, sent out a cellphone message calling the killings "ghastly" and saying that they were the work of criminal gangs backed by police officers and "part of a well orchestrated plan of terror".

Reformist legislators from the Islamic Iran Participation Front denounced attacks by hard-line gangs, backed by elements of the security forces, on a student gathering in Khorramabad, but warned students not to take to the streets.