Sentence examples for small criminal from inspiring English sources

The pattern has been that within most waves of immigration is a small criminal group.

"One of the side effects was to solidify organized crime and create a real, international organization out of what was, in essence, small criminal groups," Finckenauer told me.

"The small criminal Bush met with his British tail," the newspaper al Qadissiya, government-controlled like all others in Iraq, said on its front page today.

"The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity," says the UN.

This Ozymandian moment prefigures the collapse of Arm and his friend Dympna's small criminal empire, and shows the agility with which Barrett can shuttle between realist detail and metaphorical significance.

The government coordinator for the refugee crisis, Giorgos Kyritsis, said: "Softex is the camp with the most cases of small criminal behaviour but there was not any case of rape reported to the camp's staff".

The term leaves out pluralistic systems, which rely on adapted or traditional actors, many of which exist exclusively outside of the purview of government, to settle civil or small-scale criminal disputes.

In this last (more rare) case, individuals or couples run small-scale criminal trades that depend on transient opportunities for instance, the poaching of a couple of wildlife animals during an exotic holiday.

Operation Broken Trust cases involved many small criminals with equally small legal defense budgets, which translates into more wins for the prosecution.

And as leaders fell, the large drug organizations splintered into smaller criminal gangs, which waged battles of succession that led to greater violence.

To prevent smaller criminal groups from growing and eventually competing with them, cartels also control other activities like human trafficking, kidnapping, music and software piracy, extortion and prostitution.