Sentence examples for worldwide illegal from inspiring English sources

Much of the demand is driven by consumers in Asia and the US, and next week the US is expected to crush its 6m tonnes of seized ivory in a symbolic show that it is getting tough with the worldwide illegal trade, estimated to be worth several billion pounds annually.

As the website Things Apple is Worth More Than points out, the company's market capitalisation exceeds the gross domestic product of Singapore, the value of gold held at the New York Federal Reserve, the largest bullion store in the world, and the value of the worldwide illegal drugs trade.

Probably originally domesticated for entertainment purposes cockfighting is still popular worldwide, if illegal in some places chickens are now primarily raised for their meat and eggs, most often on an industrial scale that has raised major ethical questions.

However encouraging, recent improvements accrue from a truly dreadful baseline: in the early years of the study, nearly half the tropical logs, sawn timber, and plywood traded worldwide was illegal.

Despite new methods of detecting poachers that include drones and satellite imagery, the killing of the great mammals for their ivory has become the largest part of a worldwide $19 billion illegal wildlife trade.

Homosexuality in Russia – unlike more than 40 countries in the Commonwealth and 70 worldwide – is not illegal.

VW has confirmed that 11m vehicles worldwide possess the illegal defeat device, which lower nitrogen oxide emissions in test conditions but allows high emissions on the open road.

Other Mexican officials have also complained that their country pays the price for the worldwide demand for illegal drugs, with the United States the largest market.

On July 15th a new study found that worldwide harvests of illegal timber dropped by 22% over the past decade, with declines reaching as high as 50-75% in the major timber-producing countries of Brazil, Indonesia and Cameroon.

The complaint contended that Intel had struck exclusive agreements with computer makers in exchange for payments of billions of dollars "in a systematic worldwide campaign of illegal, exclusionary conduct to maintain its monopoly power and prices".

Most of the worldwide production of illegal heroin, the drug refined from opium, comes from Afghanistan, and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair cited this as a reason for the war in 2001, calling the drugs trade a part of the Taliban regime that "we should seek to destroy".