Sentences with phrase «by illicit»

Services are targeted at families to support parents, grandparents, kinship carers and children of drug - using parents affected by illicit drugs.

Coinhive was found to be the most popular option exploited by illicit miners, garnering 93.82 % of the results.

«We would like to offer our sincerest apologies to our customers, other exchanges, and everyone else affected by the illicit transfer of NEM which occurred on our platform,» Coincheck says.

Approximately 260,000 users were affected by the illicit transfer of NEM.

We would like to offer our sincerest apologies to our customers, other exchanges, and everyone else affected by the illicit transfer of NEM which occurred on our platform.

The above «Climate of Doubt» program qualifies as such with its blatant insinuation about skeptics corrupted by illicit money, as does its prior 2008 program «Heat», in which only unidentified skeptic scientists were shown while the narrator said «Not only have big oil companies not invested much in renewables, but for years they were among the largest contributors to so - called climate change denier groups, groups like the Heartland Institute, the organizer of this 2008 convention.»

As in the «settled science» is rife with unsettled contradictions, the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are corrupted by illicit money doesn't have a shred of physical evidence to back it up, and one of the main promoters of the accusation is a person apparently plagued with credibility problems.

Design, specification and construction of schools, to statutory regulations and codes, is compromised by illicit institutionalised depletion of funds designated as payment.

Even if you aren't harmed by illicit access of your credit report, «privacy loss always has value,» Flitter says.

Victims of identity theft suffer from total financial chaos as their credit history and rating are destroyed by illicit purchases that were never paid for by the identity thief.

And King added that BAD «Segregation is wrong because it is a system of adultery perpetuated by an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.»

She meets a disillusioned young wife and high school teacher named Prudie (Emily Blunt) whose marriage threatens to be undone by an illicit affair she is tempted to have with one of her students.

Friday 17 November is the most popular day for people to have affairs, new research conducted by Illicit Encounters has found.

When the sexual energy in a relationship hits low tide, couples often disconnect emotionally, even if the marriage does nt end in divorce or isnt shattered by an illicit affair.

Spitzer came to office knowing he was doomed, according to Constantine, and acted irrationally from the moment he arrived - his time in Albany punctuated by bad decisions, strange outbursts, and a lingering sense of shame that could only be explained by the illicit liaisons

A statement by the Minister's Special Adviser on Media Oluyinka Akintunde, explained that Nigeria was doubly affected by illicit financial flows as a result of corruption and tax evasion.

Rev. Kayode has maintained his eligibility and candidiacy in the courts by appealing the invalidation of his nominating petition by the illicit tactics of Ruben Wills, and the matter is being adjudicated in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals expediently.

He claimed we were «jealous» and that we wanted to protect ourselves from being caught by other illegitimate footballing regimes fuelled by illicit oil revenues, the proceeds of crime or the outcome of widespread money - laundering.

Workers have a difficulty to fight against the plan because they have experienced corruption by illicit collusion between the government and capital from military dictatorship.

Not exact matches

The company claimed Okada had put the company's gaming licenses at risk by making illicit payments to Philippine regulators.

«US - based Mexican [transnational criminal organization] members generally coordinate the transportation and distribution of bulk wholesale quantities of illicit drugs to US markets,» the DEA report states, «while retail - level distribution is mainly handled by smaller local groups and street gangs not directly affiliated with Mexican TCOs.»

Stamos, whose plan to exit the company later this year was reported Monday by the New York Times, was responding to reports that the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytics gained illicit access to data collected from 50 million Facebook accounts and used it to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

As cryptocurrencies are not backed by government, several authorities fear they may be used for illicit activities like money laundering.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

By comparison, in states where the drug did become legal for medical use, the rate of illicit use went from 5.55 percent to 9.15 percent.

«This is a concerning rate,» Dedrone CEO Jorg Lamprecht told CNBC, «especially in light of international incidents where drones have crashed into other aircraft, and been used by terrorists, and used in other illicit activities.»

As porn loses its illicit lustre, its producers also struggle with the same problems faced by other media companies.

Adidas's reputation in the U.S. has already been bruised by an investigation into allegations that one of its former executives helped to facilitate illicit payments to basketball players to steer them to universities partnering with the brand.

The kingdom had been squeezed by years of low oil prices, and Prince Mohammed was seeking to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in alleged illicit gains.

The website was used by drug dealers to put illicit drugs into our communities and literally at our doorsteps nationwide,» said DEA Special Agent in Charge, Brian R. Crowell.

By providing offshore banks in which criminals could deposit illicit dollars, the US government supported the dollar's exchange value.

A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows...

Despite sanctions to date, North Korea's economy is estimated to have grown by four to six per cent annually over the last three years due to increased economic autonomy, agricultural reforms and better weather conditions, favourable global market prices, and networks of lucrative, illicit activities.

The paramount crime issue in the source zone is the production of illicit narcotics, followed by money laundering, alien smuggling, illegal weapons trafficking, and human trafficking.

Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.

China has sought to acquire U.S. technology by any means, licit or illicit, since Deng Xiaoping opened China to the West.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

Bitcoin, a digital currency that is traded on a peer - to - peer network independent of central control, has engendered a wave of creative criminality - from bitcoin theft by hacking online platforms to potentially using the crypto - currency in money laundering, bribery and buying illicit products.

If Cambridge Analytica had been using the illicit Facebook data for years already — and The New York Times reports that it did not delete all the data that it had claimed — there's no telling who else has copies, copies that wouldn't be easily found by Facebook auditors now.

The crypto market slump was largely driven by fears of regulatory bottlenecks after India sounded the alarm on illicit financing.

We identify illicit activity in cryptocurrencies by providing actionable intelligence to cryptocurrency companies, financial institutions and government agencies.

Widespread adoption of virtual currency is hindered by anti-money laundering and illicit trade concerns, as well as volatility, ease of use obstacles, and a lack of basic trust.

That current definition does not include abuses perpetrated by the governments themselves or private security firms or any reforms to strengthen traceability and reduce illicit trade.

But in small part, that jump also has been driven by those who believe the digital currency provides anonymous cover for illicit transactions.

Scandals can pertain to large - scale corporate conduct involving the cooperation of many people (such as the Volkswagen emissions - falsification scandal), to an individual corporate decision (as when Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its drugs from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per pill), or to illicit behaviour by an individual (such as a corporation's CEO).

Between 1992 and 1995, the proportion of eighth graders using illicit drugs almost doubled; among tenth graders it jumped by nearly two - thirds; among seniors it escalated by nearly half.

(SMW 251) Is such a metaphysical understanding of togetherness reached by an «illicit» introduction of a specifically Christian mode of understanding?

The most obvious manifestation of the illicit, involving the crossing of boundaries set by social mores and norms, is found in the persistent adulterous character of the narrative.

That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]-RRB-.

This inverts the proper relationship between text and interpreter, committing the same kind of blunder as did the schoolboy who was startled out of an illicit slumber by his teacher's question and blurted out that science had indubitably proved all monkeys are descended from Darwin!