Sentence examples for illicit organization from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Menem, who has been under house arrest since June, will remain in custody as investigators continue to look into whether he led an "illicit organization" set up to traffic in arms.

Joss Whedon, who's earned cult-like status for his TV series, films, comics and now Internet musicals, will roll out Dollhouse, another sci-fi drama about an illicit organization that provides mind-wiped "dolls" to carry out missions for the mega-rich.

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was indicted by a federal judge Wednesday, accused of heading an "illicit organization" that illegally funneled weapons to Croatia and Ecuador during the 1990s.

Throughout the film, he and the other members of his illicit organization, Ken Brendann Gleeson and Harry Ralph Fienneses) talk, drink, and shoot their way through the quandary of whether one can ever be forgiven for such a crime, even if it's an accident.

Little has been written about the concept of resilience in the context of illicit organizations.

Charities often attempt to distinguish themselves from illicit organizations by including information in their solicitations about their activities and overhead costs, understanding that trust is a crucial issue when it comes to charitable fund-raising.

Dan Trombly, an analyst at Caerus Associates specializing in illicit organizations and armed conflict, told VICE News that biological weapons are often "more trouble than they're worth," and that it's remarkably challenging to develop and deploy them.

In Ntrepid's own parlance, they describe Tartan as a program that can "Analyze illicit organizations and less structured social networks by identifying: Ranks of influence within human networks… [and can] end the use of [online] aliases".

Abstract: I introduce the Ur III (250,000 tot.; Drehem 15,000) and Old Assyrian (23,000 tot.; 10,000 published) texts as examples of large bodies of cuneiform tablets that were initially organized into archives in antiquity, but that because of illicit excavation, the archival organization of the tablets was lost.

The mob is more abstract: it's a shadowy, vague "organization" whose illicit dealings don't really impinge on us.

Below the underboss were the caporegime, or lieutenants, who, acting as buffers between the lower echelon workers and the don himself, protected him from a too-direct association with the organization's illicit operations.