Sentence examples for rival mafia from inspiring English sources

The bloodshed included the shotgun killings of three rival Mafia captains.

Mr Assad felt vulnerable at home, too, presiding over a shaky police state dominated by his own minority Alawite sect, a Baathist party long since denuded of vision, a stumbling socialist economy, and a coterie of spy agencies run like rival mafia clans.The reasons for Syria's rehabilitation are subtler.

The Italian government has said it will send extra police to two Naples districts where a turf war between rival mafia factions has escalated.

A long-­running turf war between rival mafias was reportedly settled in recent years by dividing the lake down the middle.

But Congo is important; it heads a miserable category described as "nonstate conflict", a mêlée of warlords, ethnic rivals, mafias and militias, all fighting out in a failed state.

Black Mass, which will have its world premiere at the Venice film festival on 4 September, follows Bulger as he teams up with the FBI to bring down a rival Italian mafia clan in the 70s and 80s, during which period the gangster was solidifying his position as head of the Irish-American Winter Hill mob (pdf).

Despite his prolific criminal activities, Bulger was also a longstanding FBI informant, supplying information about the rival New England Mafia.

The Aryan Brotherhood and Black Guerrilla Family reportedly instigated the hunger strike and persuaded traditional latino rivals, the Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia, to join.

Take about 6-12 montos to build up money and respect then take out the rival gangs and mafias.

He said that the killing underlined warnings by police chiefs that parts of Rome and Lazio were becoming a volatile patchwork of rival gangs from different Mafia groups.

The arrests came about with the help of an informer within the Genovese family who secretly recorded his cronies chatting about everything from rival Albanian mobsters to Mafia hits.