Sentence examples for off smuggling from inspiring English sources

Egypt closed the border crossing with Gaza and began sealing off smuggling tunnels.

Bekaa residents have long lived off smuggling, moving cherries, cigarettes and auto parts, among other items, so the war provided only the latest wrinkle.

Better still, European governments should wean Montenegro off smuggling by buying more of its legal exports.At the same time, whatever Mr Djukanovic says, the West should not write off the hard-pressed dissidents of Belgrade, or dismiss their argument that clumsy sanctions against Serbia may simply strengthen Mr Milosevic's hand.

After a civil war that began in 2002, rebels continue to control the partly Muslim north, feeding off smuggling and illicit taxation, while the west remains a substantially lawless domain of robbery and rape, a recent Human Rights Watch report said.

It lives off smuggling and Russian money.

It is a tiny territory run by Russia's security forces and a small and nasty clique of local thugs who live off smuggling goods and pocketing Russian aid money.

Famously, she was the first western reporter into Homs when the Syrian uprising took off – smuggled in, hiding in the boot of a car.

A brave but frightened man, certain he is doing the right thing but worried if he can pull it off, smuggles some of the NSA's most secret information out of a secure facility.

Following is the text of a statement issued by the family of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man suspected of trying to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet as it approached Detroit on Dec. 25 by setting off explosives smuggled aboard the flight.

"The border police are being paid off to smuggle in migrants, one hundred percent," Valev said.

A headline in the New York Post responded crankily, "Woman gets off easy for smuggling $45K of cocaine".