Sentence examples for violent enterprise from inspiring English sources

Enlisting in such a violent enterprise posed a difficult decision for a young man of his moral feeling and religious aspirations.

She is clearly the more capable person suited to preside over this corrupt, perpetually and criminally violent enterprise known as the United States of America.

Just as the Ku Klux Klan employed Christianity to validate its violent enterprise, so did those who so callously attacked America in 9/11 used Islam to validate their malevolence.

Although supported by members of the establishment from the royal princes downwards, it was considered illegal under the terms of the Riot Act of 1715, which defined a riot as "a tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three or more persons assembling together, of their own authority, with intent mutually to execute a violent enterprise to the terror of the people".

"You have a ready army that can be enlisted in violent enterprises," Mr. Obasi said.

Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a group operating "a very violent criminal enterprise" out of a neighborhood bakery.

The prosecutors have lost few opportunities to assert that Mr. Gotti is now the head of what they call "a large and violent criminal enterprise which has a long history of interfering with the judicial process".

In 2008, American forces captured Hernan Giraldo Serna, designated a foreign narcotics kingpin, in Colombia, where he allegedly shipped thousands of kilos of cocaine into America and oversaw a violent criminal enterprise in northern Colombia.

In 1994, he joined the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn as an assistant United States attorney; he later served as the chief of its violent criminal enterprise section, which prosecutes gang cases, and the deputy chief of the criminal division, according to a statement.

The prosecution told jurors that Chow was a clever gang boss who controlled a violent criminal enterprise, a man so cold he laughed when he heard that a rival he is charged with conspiring to kill was dead.

Davis was subsequently convicted for running a violent criminal enterprise from prison in 2007 and sentenced to 108 years, following a major sweep that netted dozens of other defendants.