Sentence examples for small cartel from inspiring English sources
Some co-operatives end up controlled by a small cartel of members.
Peter Robbins London For decades, American policy towards Cuba has been hijacked by a small cartel of politicos in Florida and their wealthy benefactors.
The Templars are a new and small cartel, so that such a movement was possible in the fluid cartel-scape of Michoacán, in a way that would be unthinkable in, say, terrain under the grip of the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful, or in Tamaulipas – controlled by the Gulf cartel and the terrifying narco-militia Los Zetas.
Tobacco is easy to tax, since cigarettes were always made in standard sizes by a small cartel of companies.
Golden Golden Globes rule - They're decided by a small cartel, are ridiculous, stupid, shallow - Unless, of course, you agree w/ the winner.
Starting in 2004, a small cartel composed of construction executives surreptitiously devised a strategy to inflate contract prices and significantly overcharge Petrobras, Brazil's state-run energy company, for their services.
Jorge Chabat explained to me: "The strategy of the government is to turn the big cartels into lots of small cartels.
If you have 50 small cartels instead of four big cartels, first you have less international pressure, and second, you will have violence in the short term, but in the long term you will have much less violence".
The mountainous areas that occupy much of the state serve as bastions to a plethora of relatively small cartels with a foothold in opium poppy production, most of it designed to feed the booming heroin market in the US.
If the oil market tightens in the next few weeks, it will be because Mr Naimi or a successor has cajoled or bullied smaller cartel members into meeting their quotas.
The Beltran Leyva brothers took over until the Mexican government killed Arturo Beltran Leyva in a shootout in December 2009, and then the state's opium and marijuana business was divided up among half a dozen smaller cartels, including Guerreros Unidos, los Rojos, Los Granados and La Familia, from neighboring Michoacan state.
