Sentences with phrase «by a crime lord»

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Third, receiving with grateful humility the Savior who was sent to us by the Father to pay for our crimes and transgressions — this is Christ the Lord.

Report by Amnesty International «We had no time to bury him: War crimes in Sudan's Blue Nile State» - Lord Alton of Liverpool

Soon their lives collide with a gang of dangerous criminals led by an enigmatic crime lord — and with every violent confrontation, his memory brings him closer to a dark truth as the lethal personality awakening within him starts to reveal who he really is.

The main storyline involves a nefarious crime lord, played by Marvin «Krondon» Jones III, whose gang, The 100, is terrifying the city, but it's Black Lightning's journey into social issues — the character quotes Martin Luther King Jr. at one point in the premiere — that separates him from the rest of the superhero pack.

Rise to become the hero of the Neox Sector — a deadly fringe world terrorized by ruthless crime lords and their no - good underlings.

This proves to be a mistake, because two rival crime lords - The Boss (Morgan Freeman) and The Rabbi (Sir Ben Kingsley)- are owed money by Nick.

Unfortunately, the block is essentially run by brutal crime lord and drug kingpin Ma - Ma (Headey), and she is not willing to let the judges escape with their suspect.

The setup for this thriller is pretty straightfoward: Victor (Colin Farrell), is hired by a young woman (Rapace) to kill underground crime lord Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard) in New York City to settle a personal score.

«Dead Man Down» Synopsis: A man is hired by a young woman to kill an underground crime lord in New York City to settle a personal score.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 31, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Balls of Fury (PG - 13 for profanity, crude behavior and sex - related humor) Dan Fogler stars in this revenge comedy as a washed - up ping - pong champion coaxed out of retirement by an FBI Agent (George Lopez) to enter a tournament hosted by the Asian crime lord (Christopher Walken) who murdered his father.

The story follows a private investigator who reads a book of sinister origins owned by seedy crime lord.

That same night, Dale witnesses a murder committed by local drug lord Ted Jones (Gary Cole), and as he flees the scene of the crime, he leaves behind a freshly smoked joint of Pineapple Express that leads directly back to Saul.

Turns out Santino wants her seat at the High Table, a coveted place among a group of elite crime lords bestowed to Gianna by their father.

The plot focuses on three Midwestern brothers, a crime lord, and Willis» cop, who are all on a deadly collision course when the youngest brother's fiancée is kidnapped by human traffickers.

Rama (Uwais) is a rookie cop in crime - ridden Jakarta whose assignment for the day is to raid an apartment building run by a ruthless drug lord.

Kidnapped four years earlier and forced into prostitution by Japanese crime lord Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe), Everly (Salma Hayek) has been working with the police to bring her captor down; he's found out and sent an army of assassins to kill her.

Director: John Singleton Cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Devon Aoki, Cole Hauser, Chris «Ludacris» Bridges, James Remar Plot: In order to gain immunity from his crimes, O'Connor (Walker) is forced to help the Feds take down a drug lord by going undercover.

Who: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper and Terrence Howard What: In New York City, a crime lord's right - hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution against his boss.

Based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE), PUSHER stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord.

Directed by Scott Cooper and starring Johnny Depp, the movie tells the true story of James «Whitey» Bulger, who rose to become the most powerful and ruthless crime lord in Boston thanks in large part to his «alliance» with the local branch of the FBI.

Sometimes it's reminiscent of Affleck's earlier film The Town, a tale of bred - in - the - bone Boston criminality that bled real blood and inflicted tangible pain, but Affleck has stymied himself by trying to make Joe Coughlin a kind of renaissance crime lord.

He finds his turf constantly being invaded by hotheaded mobster Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and he debates whether to take care of the problem by forming a risky alliance with suave crime lord Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia).

As he deals with that, he comes to the aid of a young woman (Julia Stiles) who is being harassed by a local crime lord, and helps hunt down her stalker (Ray Liotta).

Graciela is mostly used as a prop for Joe's evolution from square - jawed bandit to square - jawed minor crime lord, coming in particularly useful when Joe's operation is threatened by the Klan and their predilection for the colourful use of the term «niggerlover.»

It's a solid film, with an impressive central performance by Johnny Depp as Boston crime lord James «Whitey» Bulger, but it never rises to the -LSB-...]

And for any whose heads are not yet spinning, writer - director Johnson throws in another loop or two: In the future, Old Joe's wife was killed by a mysterious, Keyser - Soze - like crime lord called the Rainmaker; now that he's back in the past, Old Joe is determined to find this villain as a boy, and snuff him out before he can grow into deadly manhood.

Beyond the fact that the evil Asian crime lord does martial arts (an element unfortunately missing in the movie's climax), the plane is crewed by an older, experienced pilot, a middle - aged sexist co-pilot, and not one but two stewardesses who are approaching retirement.

He brings with him the maniacal Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano), who, along with a beautiful witch (Rinko Kikuchi), concoct a scheme to trick Asano into attacking an unarmed Kira, a crime punishable by execution or a more honorable ritual suicide called seppuku.

Martin Scorsese's underworld thriller The Departed opens with a voice - over from its larger - than - life villain, a Boston crime lord played by Jack Nicholson who declares, «I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.»

Nicholas Hoult is miscast and overmatched as the lovelorn, hapless petty criminal caught between two scenery - chewing crime lords played by Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley, though given his experience as a War Boy in «Mad Max: Fury Road,» he can at least pantomime driving really fast with the best of them, so it's not completely foreign to him.

Along the way, he is hired by the FBI, kidnapped by a Romanian crime lord, and finishes his homework!

About Pablo Escobar (1949 - 1993) Drug lord Pablo Escobar began his life of crime while still in school; by the early 1970s he was involved in the cocaine trade.

Collision Point Brute Force, Book # 1 By Lora Leigh ISBN # 9781250110329 Author's Website: http://www.loraleigh.com/ Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi Amara is the daughter of an alleged former crime lorBy Lora Leigh ISBN # 9781250110329 Author's Website: http://www.loraleigh.com/ Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi Amara is the daughter of an alleged former crime lorby OBS reviewer Heidi Amara is the daughter of an alleged former crime lord.

Lure vindictive crime lords out of their strongholds by roughing up their street soldiers, attacking criminal operations and taking out high - value gang captains.

Crackdown let's players take control of a Agent, a super powered cop tasked with bringing justice to Pacific City, a crime ridden place controlled by 21 gang lords.

Vinnie's been hired by a ruthless crime lord to protect his son from his countless enemies.

Delivering judgment along with Mr Justice Holgate, Lord Justice Singh said Part 4 was incompatible with fundamental rights in EU law because «access to retained data is not limited to the purpose of combating «serious crime»» and «access to retained data is not subject to prior review by a court or an independent administrative body».

This is Young Legal Aid Lawyers» submission to the call for written evidence by the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, which was set up by Lord Bach after he was asked by Jeremy Corbyn to carry out a comprehensive review of legal aid for the Labour Party, considering civil, crime, family and social welfare law.

In McCann, when looking at the evidence in the linked case of Clingham v Kensington and Chelsea RLBC, Lord Steyn at para 9 identified the evidence against the defendant as being primarily based on hearsay evidence contained in records of complaints received by the trust, and in crime reports compiled by the police.

In my previous position, I received praise and an excellence award for playing a key role in apprehending a drug lord and subsequently decreasing the drug crime rate by 40 %.