Sentence examples for running protection from inspiring English sources

Joseph Stalin spent those years in the Caucasus, running protection rackets and robbing banks.

Evidence of prisoners running protection rackets by charging rent for cells and using violence to collect on the debt.

His militia was also implicated in running protection rackets and shaking down small and large businesses alike.

Some of those fighters are accused of taxing local people, running protection rackets and even rape, raising the question of whether they are just criminals.

At least two journalists, one American and one Iraqi, have been murdered in Basra in recent weeks: both were investigating the militias' activities, which include running protection rackets and assassinating rivals, before their bodies are dumped in a rubbish tip on the edge of the city known as "the lot".

Are they running protection or not?

Police officers ran protection and drug rackets.

Could the offensive line provide both pass and run protection with Tony Boselli out and Searcy playing on a sprained ankle?

The finger was quickly pointed at the Klansman gang, which runs protection rackets around the bus depot in Spanish Town, the district where Mr Chambers was shot.

They have built market share and acquired titles, concessions and licenses from corrupt officials, run protection rackets and ensured that most markets remain black.

Traditionally, the yakuza have run protection rackets, as well as gambling, sex and other businesses that the authorities believed were a necessary part of any society.