Sentence examples for illicit factories from inspiring English sources

The police arrested 904 people suspected of selling fake, diseased, toxic or adulterated meat, and broke up 1,721 illicit factories, workshops and shops.

Criminal gangs bribe officials to ship huge quantities of ivory through the ports to illicit factories and markets of China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand in particular.

Only the remarkable uniformity of the plants – and the people walking round in lab coats – tells you the place isn't some drug lord's illicit cannabis factory.

The illicit hooch factory in the funeral parlour is an unfunny cousin to the one in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, and the first-generation immigrant wiseguys carving up the town look more like something by Francis Ford Coppola.

And for his New York solo debut, he turned a gallery into an illicit tobacco factory and packaged his own brand of cigarettes, needling the city's puritanical smoke-free regulations.

Not only did Assad's government enlist the help of North Korea to build a secret, illicit plutonium factory on the Euphrates (the nearly completed nuclear reactor destroyed by an Israeli air strike in September 2007).

A top Chinese drug official announced Thursday that Beijing authorities busted an illicit fentanyl factory and detained 19 people associated with the operation — but made no mention of two fentanyl kingpins who are wanted by the U.S. and presumably still on the loose.

But so too, it seems, did inept designers, untrained labourers, contractors who themselves took an illicit cut of the budget, the factories who churned out poor-quality materials and the supervisors who failed to spot problems.

But set amid a wealth of detail about mysterious factories, disturbing shipments, covert illicit finance and shared interests of "two of the world's most dangerous regimes"–by which he meant Iran and Venezuela it sounds like no idle comment.

The CICIG argued that Musa was killed because he owed a debt to a criminal band for illicit contraband used in his textile factory.

In 1719, in Derby, Thomas Lombe set up what's sometimes called the first factory in the United Kingdom, after his half brother made illicit diagrams of an Italian silk mill.