Sentences with phrase «by smuggling»

So it decided that the best way to do that was to poke fun at illegal immigrants and the so - called coyotes who profit by smuggling them across the desert into the United States.

To many sceptics» perspectives, both camps sought their own elevation by smuggling in under science their rent - seeking impulses or anti-capitalist (respectively) politics.

For some, it was the evacuation to become junior colonists in the East; for others, it was the onset of heavy bombing, the separation of families or learning to keep their parents alive by smuggling food, creating black markets and devising their own escape networks.

In those bleak days, despite unrelenting hardship and fear, they sought to maintain their religious faith by smuggling a potato and some margarine into camp — elements which they used to construct a makeshift candle so they could surreptitiously celebrate Hanukkah.»

When we first meet Seal in the late»70s, he's a commercial airline pilot, earning a few extra bucks on the side by smuggling Cuban cigars.

Promising to make up the debt by smuggling in a «small» amount of marijuana from Mexico, he comes up with a plan.

WHAT: After low - level drug dealer David Clark (Jason Sudeikis) loses his entire stash and personal savings to a group of thugs, his boss (Ed Helms) offers him the chance to make amends by smuggling a shipment of marijuana across the Mexican border.

«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.

Pan Grier plays Jackie Brown, a regular flight attendant who makes some extra cash by smuggling money from Mexico.

So the way we are able to safely produce nitric acid from nitrites is by smuggling it into our bodies in safe nitrate plant form.

Sen, the vice president of India's People's Union for Civil Liberties, was arrested in 2007 and accused of aiding Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, known as Naxalites, by smuggling notes from one of them being held in jail.

A guard who unwittingly helped two killers escape from a northern New York prison by smuggling in pliers, a screwdriver and a hacksaw blade hidden in hamburger meat was sentenced Monday to six months in jail.

Gene Palmer, a former Clinton Correctional Facility guard, has admitted he unwittingly helped two inmates escape from the northern New York prison by smuggling in tools.

The Government and the Attorney - General nonetheless found it «honourable» to hood - wink Ghanaians by smuggling it into a White Paper on the Commissioner's report pursuant to Article 280.

Some prison officers are suspected of aiding the inmates by smuggling the phones and other prohibited items to them in their cells.

The latter simply begs the question by smuggling the word «dying» into the description, thus verbally converting a chronic case into a dying one.

In a desperate attempt to undo what they have wrought, government leaders now promise a full eighteen months of parental leave, thus attempting to save their society by smuggling through the hack door what they so ruthlessly shoved out the front: mothers at home.

A priest from El Salvador has been charged with helping gang members in prison to continue their work on the outside by smuggling in mobile phones.

Not exact matches

The Korea Customs Service is investigating allegations of smuggling and tariff evasion following claims that the family bought luxury goods abroad and avoided paying duties on them by portraying the imported items as supplies for Korean Air aircraft.

Similar attempts to smuggle contraband by drones have taken place at prisons in other U.S. states.

He'd made most of his money by illegally smuggling products like Dutch tea, glass, lead, paper, and French molasses, according to the Boston Tea Party Historical Society.

The Zetas wanted to control the criminal businesses that they had opened and wanted to open up the plaza owned by the Gulf Cartel to other businesses like human smuggling, which would later translate into several different massacres, including the execution of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

But Democratic critics of Senate Bill 4 have spoken out as well in the wake of the smuggling deaths, arguing that the fatalities and injuries were caused not by sanctuary policies, but by a the current broken immigration system.

A battle for control of smuggling routes drove killings up for a roughly year - long period between 2014 and 2015, as Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada, Guzman's partner at the top of the cartel, fought with forces led by Damaso Lopez Serrano, the son of Guzman's former right - hand man.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.

On Saturday, police aided by dogs discovered more than a metric ton of cocaine hidden in a container with a commercial banana shipment (a popular smuggling method for traffickers) destined for Belgium.

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

Windward's technology has thus far been used mostly by government agencies for dealing with smuggling, protection of resources, and gathering information for strategic needs.

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.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

Immigration advocates are accusing the San Diego - area Border Patrol of politicizing two human - smuggling arrests by publicizing the suspects» participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — even though one of the arrestees was not actively enrolled in DACA.

The first report which spoke of a plan for the mass murder of Jews was smuggled out of Poland by the Bund (a Jewish socialist political organization) and reached England in the spring of 1942.

Attempts to smuggle the reverent unbeliever into the kingdom by calling her an «anonymous Christian,» as Karl Rahner would, meet with opposition.

Then a CIA handler (played by Domhnall Gleeson) cornered Seal on smuggling cigars right before offering him a job to take surveillance pictures in other countries.

This means that like C.S. Lewis, we can also smuggle theology in our art and allow ourselves to be transformed by it.

Robinson blistered the European scholars who had had possession of the so - called Jung Codex from Nag Hammadi (smuggled out of Egypt by an antiquities dealer) since 1952 but did not publish the last of five text translations and commentaries until 1975.

She begins by telling of the «church of the catacombs» in the Quiche region of Guatemala, where after the bishops, priests and sisters were driven out by threats and murder in 1980, Indian catechists hid the eucharistic bread inside tortillas and smuggled it in.

At some stage in a ghastly imprisonment in Herod's dungeon, beset by all the agonizing questions and doubts that come in solitary confinement, wrestling with a faith that has undergirded and energized his life for most of his adult years, John manages to smuggle out a message to Jesus that comes from the depths of his being.

4 Already threatened with excommunication, the Edict of Worms (May 1521) outlawed him and placed him under a ban, but he was saved by his ruler, Friedrich, Elector of Ernestine Saxony (1486 - 1525), who smuggled him into exile to Wartburg.

Though the FBI did not offer the media an explanation into their raid of Childers» home, business and warehouse, Childers believes that the investigation is because of what he says are false allegations made by his former son - in - law that he is smuggling weapons.

In a year dominated by trade issues, it was an onion - eating Prime Minister and two smuggled dogs that really stole the headlines.

Portraits of Baba Budan depict him as having smuggled seven coffee seeds by strapping them to his chest.

Said to be one of the birthplaces of Scotch whisky, the Cabrach was famed for illicit stills and smuggling in years gone by.

He also personally signed RvP's, Fabregas», Nasri's walking papers, in fact, he tried smuggling Alexis in his coat to Guardiola waiting with # 50 million at the gate until his coat zip gave him away, Gazidis was alerted and returned the player to the training ground before calling a press conference, triumphantly announcing «we showed ambition by keeping Sanchez»... the theiving Wenger!

But I had to ask three times and it had to be signed off on by the pediatrician before it was finally approved (I nearly sent my husband out to smuggle some in).

By Jillian Lauren In some ways, tour is anarchy - the boys are up late dancing to crazy loud rock music, giving each other dinosaur tattoos with face paint, and smuggling forbidden Fruit Loops into their bunks.

Jonathan May - Bowles, who goes by the stage name «Jonnie Marbles», smuggled paper plates covered in shaving foam into the room where the hearing was taking place.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle, played by Gleeson (below), is the eccentric officer consumed by the same routine until the day a murder in his small, quiet town reveals a much larger conspiracy involving drugs and weapons smuggling.

Elaborate trade networks have also evolved, with oil being smuggled across borders in plastic jugs and transported by trucks and on donkeys into Iraq and Turkey.

The review received added impetus after the attempts by the Nigerian government, also in 1984, to smuggle Mr Umaru Dikko (a former Nigerian minister) out of the UK in a diplomatic bag.