Sentence examples for makes cartel from inspiring English sources

Only Britain has imprisoned price fixers under a law passed in 2002 that makes cartel participation punishable by a sentence up to five years, Mr. Joshua said.

Stephen Tupper of Hammond Suddards Edge fears that making cartels subject to criminal law may be a sledgehammer to crack a nut.Some politicians agree: the bill has had a troubled passage through Parliament.

They often receive threats to hush up the capture of drug suspects because it makes the cartels look weak.

This new supply, says the PFC, "has and will continue to eat up all the increase in global demand, leaving OPEC no room to expand its own output and making the cartel's price-defence strategy increasingly difficult to maintain".However, the pain is not equally shared among cartel members.

The company sold a record $5.67 billion in diamonds last year, but sales weakened in tandem with the U.S. economy toward the end of the year, and threats of a U.S. recession is making the cartel nervous.

As Jordan Weissman notes, that makes it a cartel, not a trade association.

Valdés said he believed it unlikely that the manhunt launched to track down El Chapo will be successful, unless the infamous leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel makes a stupid mistake or the government gets very lucky.

The co-existence of the government and criminal groups made the cartels ever more powerful and, increasingly, they began to penetrate institutions of the state.

In a statement and in an interview with The New York Times on Monday, Mr. Breuer said he had made fighting cartel-related violence a top priority of the division under his stewardship.

In fact it is making the cartels even richer.

What the U.S. government did indirectly was to make the cartels more powerful.