Sentences with phrase «black marketeers»

Because the digital currency abjured central banks and other authorities, many of its first devotees were libertarians, anarchists, and black marketeers who wanted to do business away from the government's watchful eye.

Trevor Howard, most famous for much more civilized turns in films like «Brief Encounter» and «The Third Man,» delivers one of his most dynamic performances as an ex-serviceman who, bored with civilian life, joins a gang of black marketeers for excitement and money.

Black marketeers deal in secret.

As a priest performs Mass to parishioners scattered in the pews, a number of Jewish black marketeers use the cathedral as a safe meeting place to cover up their whispered business about the latest commercial deals: «Marks for Zloty at 2.45 to 1,» «it's a nice coat - she'll trade it for ration coupons.»

Plus, your winnings can be used between races to buy parts from Watto, the diminutive black marketeer, so these gentler tracks provide an opportunity to improve your ride.

«It was disheartening that when the President visited Kaduna State, black marketeers were having a field day as many of the stations were closed and the people were buying fuel at over N350 per litre.

The book's main character is a black marketeer who breaks into the zone and pilfers alien objects such as a metal ring that defies the laws of physics and batteries that provide seemingly endless energy.

A black marketeer with blood on his hands, selling bad penicillin responsible for crippling and killing countless children, Lime is the focus of every character, the subject of every conversation, and finally the target of a manhunt that carries the film down into the catacombs of Vienna's underground sewer system.

Rounding out the cast are Charlie Day and Burn Gorman as a mismatched pair of Kaiju researchers, and Ron Perlman as a black marketeer specializing in Kaiju organs.

Martins receives an urgent call to visit Lime, a black marketeer wanted by the police.