Sentence examples for make smuggling from inspiring English sources

Controls that keep prices artificially low in Venezuela, allied with exchange-rate disparities, make smuggling a huge business.

Diplomats said they expect that strict enforcement of the embargo, which has won broad public support from diamond traders, will make smuggling much less easy and profitable than it has been in the past.

The service has legislated to make smuggling NPS into prisons illegal.

Modern highways make smuggling easy, with the cannabis stashed in false gas tanks and other niches.

But the country's borders make smuggling easy: the UN says that 200 tonnes of arms were flown from Belgrade into Liberia between June and August this year.

The EU has pushed to make smuggling illegal in the parts of Africa where it is rampant – such as in Niger, the door to Libya from west Africa.

But the price of ivory on the black market – £1,350 per kg on the streets of Beijing – makes smuggling irresistible to some.

The city is the provincial capital of Sistan va Baluchistan, one of Iran's poorest provinces, where the anemic economy has long made smuggling a hallowed tradition.

Rising Costs and Risks Criminal organizations dominate Reynosa, the Mexican city across the border from McAllen, and they have made smuggling along this section of the border a sophisticated monopoly.

A federal judge has struck down a 2005 Arizona law that made smuggling immigrants a state crime, saying it conflicted with federal laws governing immigration.

Prices like these make the smuggling of people almost as profitable as smuggling drugs, officials say, and the penalty for getting caught is a matter of months in prison rather than years.