Sentence examples for smugglers it from inspiring English sources
A story of smugglers, it plays at times like a western, with shootouts on a rocky hillside, where tumbling boulders present as much of a threat as bullets.
When I used to go undercover to work our educated US poachers and smugglers, it would take me at least a month to get them to trust me.
The ten-point plan talks of sharing intelligence about people-smuggling networks, and in its promise to make "a systematic effort to capture and destroy vessels used by the smugglers" it even hints at military action.
BY VIRTUE of one simple fact, the international airport in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, was until recently a paradise for smugglers: it had no scanners or metal detectors.
And while in the 18th century, the local beach and isolated coves of nearby Pevensey Bay were a particular favourite of smugglers, it is perhaps the slight incongruity of this location that makes it so endearing.
Mike Minter, a spokesman for the Pinal County sheriff's office, said the immigrants had apparently got into the vehicle of a rival group of smugglers; it is not clear whether they did so unwittingly or by the barrel of a gun.
ow.ly/k0cc4 #euro April 12 , 20131.39pm BST German gold smuggler It has just been pointed out by AP that the German man arrested trying to board a plane in Athens with gold in his luggage didn't have half a ton, but just 7kg.
If you're after something a little more kinetic – though not in the shoot-'em-up style its subject matter might lead you to expect – Mexican director Gabriel Ripstein's gun-running thriller 600 Miles (Soda, 15) merits a look: starring Tim Roth as a US federal agent kidnapped by a Mexican arms smuggler, it's urgent and level-headed, delivering a tacit dressing-down to the pro-gun lobby.
Bishop said Indonesia would welcome a tougher Australian policy against people smugglers because "it is also struggling with a surge in the people smugglers trade and it is frustrated Australia is not doing enough to stop being seen as an attractive destination".
The team knew it wouldn't catch any big-time smugglers, but it also knew the power of publicity and how to work the media.
No doubt roll out the red carpet for them like it rolled out the red carpet for people smugglers when it was in government".
