Sentences with phrase «by mafia»

One of the safety precautions to take is to avoid areas that are controlled by the mafia, such as the red light districts.

In 2008, over 5,000 people were killed by the mafia, and earlier this year, a former Mexican military general and two of his associates were murdered in Cancun.

Constant skirmishes between gangsters and cops, bangs, mafia and police - that is Block Сity Wars about.Accomplish impossible given by mafia bosses.

By completing various jobs given to him by mafia bosses he slowly rises through the ranks of the criminal underworld.

During some missions there will be corrupt police hanging around, mixed in with your actual targets, and because the police are being bought off by the mafia, if you start shooting the bad guys, the police will join them in shooting you, and they are relentless.

Are they all secretly backed by the mafia?

But suddenly he finds himself in the middle of corruption, crimes of all sorts and a very dangerous world which is run by mafia gangs.

This statement was made in the series Boardwalk Empire by the mafia leader Rothstein.

Time travel may have been invented somewhere between that span of years, but it was immediately outlawed and then equally immediately co-opted by the mafia as a unique way to dispose of people that they want gone.

Behind the hilarity of the film is the tragic fact that all these incompetent people are maneuvered by mafia boss, Lucky Luciano.

It seems only World Cup is not affected by mafia.

And for the ones touting Usmanov think twice: first of all this guy was jailed for fraud back in 1980 when the law was law and Uzbeks were «quick» to reverse the justice act in 2000 by the mafia state today.

By financiers who are not interested in anything about the pain and despair they cause; by the all the mafias of the planet, who use weapons instead of shares of the stock exchange.

Not exact matches

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

As legend has it, giving a murder victim «cement shoes» has long been a favored body disposal method of mafia hitmen, and it's the origin of the phrase «sleeping with the fishes,» which was made famous by The Godfather.

The result was a more action - packed affair, with mafia hitman protagonist Jackie Estacado fighting back the dark demon (unnervingly voiced again by Faith No More frontman Mike Patton) inside him.

Besides passports, Malta's other growth industry is online gaming, which has been infiltrated by the Italian mafia.

The NRB found ample evidence supporting the claims that some seminaries in the 1960s through the early 1980s were «pink palaces» or powerfully influenced by «lavender mafias,» including sleeping around by both students and faculty.

The Vatican's expressed «great concern» about corruption in Italy, after allegations the mafia, politicians and a former terrorist made millions of euros by exploiting migrants and gypsies.

The shares distributed m an equitable way are in fact acquired by foreign speculators or by the local mafia.

And then Khabib misses weight and Conor is kidnapped by the Irish mafia... We, the people, get last second replacement fight Beneil Dariush vs Alexander Hernandez for one of the 155 belts that only, for some reason or another, Beneil is eligible to win.

Let them go to Man U, PSG, Chelsea and the other clubs owned by states where slavery is allowed or Russian with mafia money.

Which is why I'm concerned to see placenta - eating getting added to the list of things new mothers must absolutely do, on pain of being judged forevermore as bad mothers by the ever - vigilant crunchy - mom mafia.

The Labour MP did his best to rub Murdoch's face in it by calling him the head of a «criminal organisation» - a mafia organisation, to boot.

The effectiveness of police enforcement is limited by the ability of the mafia to conceal itself and exploit seemingly legal documents and accounts.

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

Something Akufo - Addo and his Kyebi mafias plan of doing after the 2016 elections, against the backdrop as having been denied of that request by the duly elected Independent minded and fair minded National Chairman of our time, Paul Afoko.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, was targeted for assassination by the Sicilian mafia during a trip to Italy in 1992, according to an imprisoned Cosa Nostra hitman.

So a mafia boss can't send an email to his attorney that says, «I want you to arrange the murder of my enemy» and then keep that email out of evidence in court by citing attorney - client privilege.

Jose Mourinho's former side Uniao de Leiria have been among the clubs in Portugal raided by police as part of an operation to dismantle a Russian mafia gang laundering money.

According to him, the development is being shielded by a «mafia» who have the full detail about the operation of illegal companies in the downstream oil sector but are reluctant to act due to their personal interests.

Is this all being staged by the Rental mafia who does not want the people of Ghana to understand and enjoy the benefits of the valuable deal?

Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York, was targeted for assassination by the Sicilian mafia during a trip to Italy in 1992, according to an imprisoned Cosa Nostra hit man.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Monday's parade of prime ministerial ring kissing by the various different wings of the Conservative party had all the credibility of a protestation of undying affection and loyalty by rival family bosses at a mafia wedding.

«I was personally very offended by the comments of Mr. Astorino, when he described the governor as a quote - unquote mafia boss.

According to him, the development is being shielded by a «mafia» who...

The ideas were not stellar; one of the more creative, Goncalo says, involved a mafia family run by a young woman.

We know most about sand mafias in India and Italy, thanks to studies of media reports and court documents by Lavorgna and Aunshul Rege of Temple University in Philadelphia.

If you think, that when she finally joins you in your country, you can start living your «normal» life again and if you think she is capable enough to find her own way in your (for her) strange country, to find at once a job, to teach herself your language and find by herself new friends and if you think she should be «thankful» that you have «pulled her out» her poor mafia controlled and corrupted country, then don't start even thinking about contacting a Russian woman.

But of course the easy, druggy, murdery stasis of his life is soon rattled, as the future mafia tries to «close his loop» — when a looper's future self is sent to be unwittingly killed by his younger version, voiding the contract and freeing the looper up to do whatever he wants for thirty years — and things go awry.

Even after he is beaten up by the local mafia, Sergey continues with his nightly rants.

John «Falcon» Chapman travels to Brazil to hunt down his sister's brutal attackers, in the process discovering an underground world of drugs, prostitution, and police corruption ruled by the Japanese mafia.

Enter Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), a hit - man hired by a mysterious group of mafia men represented throughout the film by a man called Driver (Richard Jenkins).

They'll take on a group of corrupt cops and robbers, led by Terrell Tompkins (Chiwetel Ejiofor), operating under the watchful eye — and well - manicured hands — of Russian mafia moll, Irene (Kate Winslet).

John Paul Getty III, the heir and younger member of an oil tycoon's saga, is kidnapped by the Italian mafia in order to get a ransom.

Based on the excellent book by Josh Bazell that was adapted by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the story follows a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient recognizes him from his past life as a mafia hitman.

The rather convoluted plot revolves around a group of corrupt cops and legit criminals who are blackmailed by the nasty Irina Vlaslov of the Russian mafia (and of course when you mention them you naturally think of Kate Winslet) into taking on «one more job.»

In Safe, for which the first theatrical trailer was released by Lionsgate today, he is pitted against crooked NY police and the Chinese and Russian mafias.