Sentence examples for shadowy system from inspiring English sources

A shadowy system of black jails regularly cages those who cannot keep criticisms of the government to themselves.

The documents reveal a shadowy system in which operatives are not above taking money from Muslim orphans or assassinating suspected informants within their ranks.

Mr. Hood admitted that in a subject as sprawling as the subway, he had to leave many things out of his research for the book, the shadowy system of subway naming among them.

The details of the Schering-Plough tactics, gleaned from interviews with 20 doctors, as well as industry executives and people close to the investigation, shed light on the shadowy system of financial lures that pharmaceutical companies have used to persuade physicians to favor their drugs.

A series of random, brazen murders, he says, will ultimately bring down the shadowy, oppressive system that he believes is at the root of all his problems.

Henry Case is a computer hacker rescued from death by a shadowy organisation that needs his skills to break into the computer systems of another organisation.

Shadowy remittance systems followed immigrants into North America and Europe, and it was quite clear, at the point in 2000 when Jost delivered a report to Interpol on the subject, that hawala had a large role in money laundering.

Obama summoned us to a singleness of nationhood ("the United States of America"), not to a "struggle" against some shadowy enemy like "the system" or "the power structure".

An appeals court rightly ruled against the system of shadowy nominating conventions, which allows political machines to thwart the will of the voters and handpick judges.

LONDON — The novelist John le Carré was recalling an encounter from a decade or so ago, as the cold war was receding into history, giving way to a new system of shadowy threats and uneasy alliances.

So when the bumper of my car collided with the side of one of the city's ubiquitous "xiao gong gongs" -- the ratty privately operated vans that serve as the city's shadowy cut-rate transportation system -- I was not inclined to call 112, the emergency number for the traffic police.