Sentence examples for to kingpin from inspiring English sources

"I'd say, 'I'll keep writing until you guys come to your senses.' " Mr. Zucker brushed aside the suggestion that NBC's openness to "Kingpin" was a response to the growing drawing power of cable.

Blessed with good looks and an attractively sleepy flow, New York's Rakim Mayers gives the impression of having progressed from up-and-comer to kingpin with seemingly no grind whatsoever.

It is his journey from ordinary favela resident to kingpin of Rocinha's drug trade that Glenny retraces in this well-paced, engaging account, which depicts Rio's drug wars not from the point of view of officialdom, but from the other side of the battle lines.

You set about building a criminal empire in your real-world city or town, inviting your mates to come along and join you as you rise to kingpin like status, battling other criminals for real-world locations, collecting protection money and generally being a badass mafioso.

Police have made 131 arrests so far this year, ranging from poachers to couriers to kingpins.

The advent of Global Positioning System tracking devices has been a boon to law enforcement, making it easier and safer, for example, for agents to link drug dealers to kingpins.

Mandatory sentences do not work: they discriminate racially, treat low-level offenders identically to kingpins for whom these laws were intended; and they undermine any chance of rehabilitation.

In fact, threatening those at the end of the supply chain rarely leads to kingpins, because today's drug organizations are built like terrorist groups.

Such laws are designed to induce insiders who are close to the "kingpins" to come forward, they said.

Daughter is supposed to spy on Chalky and report back to heroin kingpin Valentin Narcisse Jeffrey Whitee), who's plotting to seize the nightclub.

The Spider-Man of Miles's world (Chris Pine) is in his prime as a superhero, but he falls to the Kingpin as he tries to save the world.