Sentence examples for scale of smuggling from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile in Colombia, powerful organized criminal enterprises had sprung up over the years, likewise increasing the efficiency and scale of smuggling operations on their end of the border.

He was accused of smuggling weapons.

Also, missile development is proceeding briskly in Iran, and there is always the option of smuggling a weapon into Israel.

But Amenyah played down the scale of the smuggling.

Despite the scale of the smuggling, the authorities have done little to stop it.

The unprecedented scale of British smuggling overwhelmed Napoleon's attempt to stop Britain trading with continental Europe.

He went on to offer Ms Duffy an invitation to visit a prison so she could "see in more detail the scale of the smuggling" in prisons, and the attempts being made to circumvent the rules.

Additionally, the scale of cigarette smuggling poses a considerable global threat to the efforts to control tobacco consumption [ 44].

Last December, Shanghai customs officials seized more than three tons of pangolin scales smuggled into China with a shipment of African logs, equivalent to up to seventy-five hundred of the thorny anteaters.

With the Dutch 3 lesson, the film was judged to be a realistic portrayal of the consequences of drugs smuggling.

The JTI management have also warned that the large scale cigarette smuggling operations on the island of Ireland was a factor in its decision to move.