Sentences with phrase «about smuggling»

There's Nothing Religious About Smuggling Endangered Monkey Meat Killing Rare Animals Funds Terror

The potential Friendly Broadway Neighbourhood Wall - Crawler had plenty of tales about smuggling Cuban cigars, Playboy Bunnies, jumbo codpieces and surviving a beat - down from Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne.

While officially Baghdad is now considering whether there is enough evidence of Turkey's involvement in oil trade with IS to file a formal protest at the UN Security Council, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, Naseer Nuri, told Sputnik on Wednesday that «general information about the smuggling of Iraqi oil by trucks to certain countries, including Turkey» is already available to them, and «this oil is used to fund Daesh.»

He proceeded to tell a story about smuggling Jewish artifacts into the Soviet Union and joked that his own Greek Orthodox beliefs gave him insight into Orthodox Judaism, letting Yiddish words like tzitzis and shul roll off his tongue all the while.

The world is not as divided as it used to be and modern warfare is less about the smuggling of weapons and more about the spread of ideas.

According to The Intercept, he approached Hiramine about smuggling sensitive espionage equipment into the country.

Not exact matches

The documentary showed Prince Harry and Prince William looking through Diana's personal album, talking about childhood memories, and speaking about her «fun» parenting — she apparently used to smuggle them sweets.

He was also briefly dabbled in smuggling opium to China via his American Fur Company ships — even though China banned the drug about two decades earlier.

But there is this: «Perlowin knows a lot about the marijuana business, having served 9 years in federal custody for his role in a smuggling ring during the 1970s and early 1980s.»

The incident revives concerns about the safety of Egypt's airports, coming so soon after ISIS smuggled a bomb aboard a Russian airliner carrying vacationers.

The champions of atheist memetics often smuggle in a covert value judgment about «good» and «bad» memes into their world view, without ever justifying where this cosmic meta - value is grounded.

I heard that one of the Cathy boys smuggled some heroine out of Vietnam back about 1970 - 1971.

It may have a lot to do with the variety (there are oodles of varieties out there)-- the best cooking bean I have found is the little red beans that my father smuggled back into the country after visiting us in Nicaragua about 8 years ago — those beans remain mostly firm throughout the cooking process.

What makes Fäviken special, what gets chefs like Redzepi excited about the place, isn't just the extreme localness of the ingredients (Nilsson basically doesn't use anything he can't get from the farm or pull from nearby waters, barring sugar from Denmark, salt from France, his beloved alcoholic vinegar — and the occasional pineapple he smuggles in for a staff - meal pizza).

After all, Guttmann had been the coach who had signed Eusebio, reputedly after casually hearing about him in a barbershop, travelling to Mozambique and smuggling him out of the country from under the noses of the Sporting Lisbon feeder club he belonged to under the false name «Ruth Malsos» in case of a kidnapping.

I pay tribute today to Egypt and the United States and to the UN secretary general for their role in bringing about a ceasefire in Gaza, and we now need to build on it to bring about a lasting peace, including an end to the smuggling of weapons and the opening up of Gaza for trade as well as for aid.

So it is smuggled in, hiding in plain sight, defying MPs to actually kick up a stink about it.

They were about to be smuggled to Singapore.

At the recent National Delegates Conference of the NPP in Cape Coast, the President stated that cocoa contributes about $ 2 billion to GDP, whilst smuggled gold was worth $ 7 billion in 2016.

There is «no shadow of a doubt» that Ankara knows about the oil smuggling operations, Iraqi MP and former national security adviser Mowaffak al Rubaie told RT..

Film House Chief Operating Officer Michael Haggerty has already been in the Syracuse area scouting locations for the film, which he says is «about a female astronaut who crash lands and is offered a smuggling job that will pay for her ship's repairs.»

Concerns about what security measures are in place for airline and airport employees were raised after the arrests that were made in the gun smuggling operation.

Hoping to persuade potential customers, sellers volunteered information about the tortoises» «Red List» status and offered suggestions about how to smuggle the animals out of the country.

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He has no compunction about embarrassing poor nuclear physicist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of Russia.

A high IQ, super-tense thriller from Korea about a people - smuggling mission gone wrong — with a super-creepy spiritual undercurrent.

He never knew so few words could cause such chaos, but when Father William learns that a group of emboldened drug runners are about to execute a lucrative international drug smuggling scheme and use the church to elude suspicion, the race is on to shut the operation down or die trying.

June 19, 2015 • A family and a smuggler talk about how the smuggling market works on the Egyptian coast.

Shooting got underway on the story (about a search - and - rescue medical spaceship that rescues a man who's smuggled an alien artifact on board), with a cast including Angela Bassett, James Spader, Robert Forster and none - more - nineties faces like Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli, but things went swiftly south, with the studio cutting Hill's budget midway through production.

The low - jinks have to do with «passive smuggling» and a plan to annex part of Quebec, with dumb wisecracks and insults about shaved testicles and the metric system ensuing relentlessly.

«The Girl»: Independent movie about a mother (Abbie Cornish) who — after losing her son in a custody battle — attempts to make money by smuggling a Mexican family into the U.S. Written and directed by David Riker.

Moreover, again, how is it that a bunch of random Chinese ER doctors seem to know more about the power and perils of CPH4 than, say, the pharmaceutical industry, the military - industrial complex, and the actual global crime syndicate that is smuggling the drug around the world?

Occasionally Zac Efron's dimwit Olympic gold medal winning athlete turned disgraced rookie lifeguard will make a comment about how this is a job for the police, which is quickly dismissed as the elite squad of lifeguards try to take down the movie's big bad villain Priyanka Chopra and her plan to buy up beach real estate to smuggle drugs.

NATIONAL SECURITY This is a profoundly unfunny comedy about a former cop (Steve Zahn) and would - be cop (Martin Lawrence) who hate each other but team up to stop an international criminal's (Eric Roberts) multimillion - dollar smuggling operation.

NATIONAL SECURITY This is a profoundly unfunny comedy about a former cop (Steve Zahn) and would - be cop (Martin Lawrence) who hate each other but team up to stop an international criminal's multimillion - dollar smuggling operation.

There's something in there about the disappearance of a hippie chick, called Shasta; the involvement of a real estate mogul, called Mickey Wolfmann; an international drug smuggling operation, called The Golden Fang; and a sax player, called Coy Harlingen, who may or may not be working as an FBI informant.

The story is about an American backpacker caught up in a drug smuggling ring while trying to pull off a heist, taking him «on the run from his employers across Munich's high - speed Autobahn.»

William Monahan wrote the screenplay adaptation based on Jon Roberts and Evan Wright's book about a New York gangster who smuggled guns and drugs for the CIA.

12:00 M — IFC — Maria Full of Grace Once in a while a film comes out of nowhere and floors me — this quiet little film about a group of South American women who agree to smuggle drugs into the United States by swallowing packets of cocaine did just that.

Doug Liman and Tom Cruise, the director - actor team behind Edge Of Tomorrow (one of our favorite science - fiction movies of the last three - and - a-half-decades), have reunited for American Made, a years - spanning biopic about a real - life pilot who got drafted into both the CIA and a South American drug - smuggling operation.

Both films take on true stories from 20th century American history, albeit one is about tennis and the other is about drug smuggling.

Co-written and produced by Bong Joon - ho, the guy who made Snowpiercer, Haemoo is a high IQ, super-tense thriller from Korea about a people - smuggling mission gone wrong (sound relevant to Australian politics?)

The rest of this road picture, directed by Greg Mottola of «Adventureland,» is about this trio trying to smuggle Paul awayl from the «Men in Black» he's escaped from.

Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, and Emma Roberts set out together in this uneven comedy about a fake family's drug smuggling road trip.

It has things to say about causality, even down to the casting, with a dead - on Martin Short as the coked - out head of a criminal smuggling empire Doc somehow misconstrues to be a Chinese man.

He embarks on a covert operation to smuggle toxic evidence out of the Pentagon that successive administrations — including JFK's — have suppressed the truth about American bellicosity in Vietnam.The race is on to publish: the New York Times make a start, despite the efforts of the Washington Post, rambunctiously edited by Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) to muscle in on their top Nam reporter Neil Sheehan.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.

Lucky for R, Julie is not so choked up about Perry's death, leaving her more receptive than you'd suspect to the attentions of her new gentleman zombie pal, who smuggles her onto an empty jetliner on the tarmac of an abandoned airport, advising her in grunts and groans that can barely be parsed as human language that she needs to stay on board with him for a few days, until the rest of his zombie buddies conveniently forget she's around.

DVD Releases for February 10, 2009 Frozen River Rated R for some language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Oscar nominee Melissa Leo stars in this drama about a desperate woman that turns to smuggling aliens in order to provide for her family.