Sentence examples for informer of from inspiring English sources

But an informer of a later day, Joseph Valachi, would suggest, "I never met anybody who thought Abe went out that window because he wanted to".

When Mr. Briccetti accused the informer of being a con man, he pushed back, as he did several times during the proceedings.

But it has been noticed that his satisfaction in his work as an informer of public opinion increases with his proximity to gunfire, to some real or fancied calamity, or to the brink of complete physical exhaustion.

This means he was more than just an informer, of whom there were millions in the Soviet Union.

The sea has been a constant informer of such things since the first man climbed aboard the first boat and pushed off into the open ocean.

2) Palin's friend, political defender and informer of the David Letterman comments, John Ziegler, was fired from his radio show for using the "n-word" online and on air in 1997.

In times of particular tension (then the Cold War, now the fight against terrorism), expansive national security arguments give them increased power to collect still more private information, sometimes from informers of dubious knowledge and honesty.

Codenamed "Stakeknife" the man in charge of hunting down informers in the ranks was one of the biggest informers of all for nearly two decades.

One thing that happens is a movie like "The Informers," of which Graham and Martin are but two of a dozen or so principal inhabitants.

1 Earlier this year, files were discovered in Sibiu revealing that in 1989 the Securitate recruited 830 informers, of whom 170 were children.

What is loosely called the Muslim world has given its inhabitants ample experience of oppression; of constant surveillance by the secret police and their informers; of jail, torture, summary execution performed as a fête champêtre in the market square.