Sentence examples for smuggling as from inspiring English sources

He described the group as "a criminal clan, like a Sicilian family clan, who are into criminal activity of all types, drug dealing, smuggling as well as insurgency".

Court papers unsealed yesterday detailed a ring accused of smuggling as many as 80,000 tablets of the drug from the Netherlands, through France, in five months.

But if the victims, found after a raid on a ranch in Tamaulipas State by Mexican naval units, are confirmed as migrants, their killings would provide a sharp reminder of the violence in human smuggling as well.

Accepted wisdom is that if you tighten the official rules, gold will still get into the country via smuggling, as was the case in the 1980s and early 1990s.

A UN protocol against trafficking of migrants defines people smuggling as acts motivated by "financial or other material benefit", said Bjørn Elmquist, a lawyer for Zorning and several other Danes charged with trafficking.

Peace and a return to effective government control along the Libyan coast could bring with it the sort of stability that lets people earn their living from work other than smuggling, as well as a police presence capable of reining in illegal migration.

The government has sent reinforcements but so far they have failed to retake the town.As the economy falters and unrest threatens to descend into tribal mayhem, many Yemenis fear that angry and hungry people may join groups involved in hijacking, bank robberies and arms- and drug-smuggling, as well as jihadist outfits seeking to bring down the government and impose sharia law.

At the University of North Carolina, where I teach, I smuggle as much Canadian history as possible into my U.S.-history courses.

In recent days, the Taliban have smuggled as many as five suicide bombers into the area, an American military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Prosecutors said they had smuggled as many as 1,000 Mexicans and Brazilians in groups of 10 and had charged them about $10,000 per group.

"I was a fugitive for six and a half years and I smuggled as much cannabis as I could," he said later.