Sentence examples for shadowy former from inspiring English sources

A compromise candidate could be Ahmed Chalabi, the shadowy former Pentagon ally who is now close to Iran, or Qasem Daoud, a former national-security adviser who is valued by Americans and clerics alike.

Mr. Fujimori's shadowy former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, apparently remains at large somewhere hidden in Peru while prosecutors investigate charges against him involving money-laundering, gun-running and death squads.

Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's shadowy former intelligence chief who was hiding in Venezuela, has now been led from a plane in handcuffs in Lima to face charges of murder, torture, extortion and trafficking in arms and drugs.

A few days later, I was granted an interview with Mohammad Hashemi, Rafsanjani's younger brother and shadowy force emeritus — former Vice-President and former chairman of the state-run radio and television organization.

A shadowy alliance of former and present military officers is believed to be involved in organized crime, including drug trafficking.

But the groups have entrenched domestic and political constituencies, as well as shadowy ties to former military officials and their families, analysts said.

Many Guatemalans complain that the real powers in their country are shadowy rings of former army officers and drug-traffickers.Álvaro Colom, Guatemala's new president, has asked CICIG to look into the bus drivers' murders as its first case.

A shadowy network of former and current figures from the government, police and organised crime – the so-called "Preventiva" – protects those who were responsible for some of the worst crimes in the 1992 95 war, and silences those who threaten to speak.

In a separate trial to begin in September in Washington DC, he stands accused of organizing a shadowy group of former senior European politicians and DC lobbyists to pursue Ukraine's interests in the U.S., without declaring those activities to American authorities.

To its critics, Circle is a shadowy outfit: Parsa is a former Goldman Sachs banker who raised cash from Tory-supporting hedge funds.

His friends and colleagues say he was chasing the story of a lifetime: the shadowy tale of Jonathan Keith Idema, a former Green Beret who claims to have fought in the Afghan war.