Sentences with phrase «mafia does»

No, I'm not giving up the «simplistic litany» that the energy mafia does not finance AGW skepticism.

In 2009 the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, the oil and gas lobby group, awarded Mitchell the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence «for leading the newspaper's coverage of climate change policy», which proves that the greenhouse mafia does have a sense of humour.

But this time it's going to be different... In the modern world where the mafia doesn't command respect like it used to, «Capo» takes a look at what it would take for a modern crime organization to rise today.

- maybe the mafia did it.

Not exact matches

Greece's citizens not unreasonably regard the State as akin to a mafia organization which they are trying to avoid as much as possible (unless it promises them free goodies to buy their votes — they do of course gladly accept those).

I ai nt bashing catholics, but I do hold the mafia in higher esteem.

Bill Deacon Actually Mario Puzo, do you deny the mafia connections between the Vatican and the Mafia?

Paul, What do you mean «mafia «like»?

OK.Thanks for the unfounded generalizations.Please don't pick on us for refusing to follow the great MAFIA - BOSS in the sky.Why do you insist upon insulting people who think differently than you.Does it make sense when Muslims insult and threaten you and your way of life?..

Why didn't u get an European example 1) YUGOSLAVIA 2) WW1 3) WW2 4) NORTHERN IRELAND 5) ETA 6) ROMANIAN REVOLUTION 7) THE RULE OF GEN. N. AMERICA 1) QUEBEC 2) TIM MCVEIGH 3) KLAN 4) MEXICAN DRUGLORDS 5) AMERICAN MAFIA and u had to use a place that is five times de size of de US.

Why does the mafia, biker gangs, Bloods and Crips, etc. operate with freedom?»

And you have special insight into what the Italian mafia thinks and does?

He has addressed the Vatican Bank so thoroughly that senior Italian mafia are apparently musing openly about «doing something about him» because his reforms are hurting their illegal business.

You have our support Usmanov I realy want a very real change; solid change and that doesn't come from Wenger only but a mafia boss himself.

He also did not let Association and the mafia that runs it meddle into who plays and who does not, which is a common case on Balkans.

The fans that don't like him now are the ones that complain about the violence of football, or are invested in Dupree and / or Tomlin, or percieve the Steelers as a sort of street gang / mafia as in for life or blood out when the reality is it's just another large corporation that you and I happen to love.

Fabregas handed to him on a platter and Costa a deal done with the Atletico / Mendez mafia connections yonks before and a year too late.

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.

Many to most members of crunchy - mom mafia tend to identify as «feminist,» which has proven to be a remarkable shield that largely prevents observers from noticing that each new item on the must - do list increases the burdens and demands on mothers, who already have a full plate living in a sexist society that doesn't really do much to make it easier for women raising small children.

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.

While it is true that the South has historically witnessed a stronger presence of the organised crime, which constrained social welfare and economic performance, it is increasingly evident that the mafia has expanded beyond historical boundaries, and it did so with devastating effects.

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.

Collins does real damage: «It may not be the mafia but it's not Management Today.»

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.

It was the moment of the session as he muttered: «Mr Murdoch, you must be the first mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise.»

11:51 - «You must be the first mafia boss in history that didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise,» Watson says.

In my view, calling James Murdoch a mafia boss did not actually take the argument very much further.

And moreover, its repeal did not result in significant increase of Mafia power (though I am unsure it can be attributed to mafia's power waning)

Watson told James Murdoch: «You must be the only mafia boss in history who did not know he was running a criminal enterprise.»

People are afraid to give information on organized crime to authorities due to fear of retribution, both as witnesses and as arrestees (and low - income people also face the backwards carrot pressure - at least with Italian mafia in USA - that if you get caught and don't snitch, the mafia will take care of your family).

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?

Even mafia hitmen do it when they characterise informers as «rats».

But while he repeatedly said he simply did not know much about a New York Times report alleging the governor had interfered with the commission's work before disbanding it — which led to a week of coverage in papers and on television throughout the state — the mayor was apparently keenly aware of comments Mr. Astorino made in response to the story, comparing Mr. Cuomo to a mafia boss.

Being part of a «sand mafia» can seem attractive because it is a low - risk, high - profit enterprise that doesn't require much specialist equipment.

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.

Only once investigators have looked into dormant criminal connections and nonexistent Turkish mafia ties do they realize Katja was correct.

For those of you who don't know the story, it's about the son of a bus driver, who grows up in the Bronx, right down the block from a mafia hangout.

As he grows up, he falls for local girl Mannina (Made), whose family doesn't approve, and gets increasingly involved in politics, working with the communist party to protect people's rights from both the oppressive government and the mafia.

Plus, who doesn't want to see Kate Winslet play a Russian mafia boss?

Rather than examine his characters, Fleischer just gives the audience more bullets and more bodies as the characters all start at such an extreme level that, short of growing super powers or actually attempting to set up their own mafia, they just can't do anything more.

He persuades Rosie to drive a getaway car each time he does the unthinkable: he invades the turf of several mafia clubs with an Uzi he knows not how to use (a funny scene finds him shooting wildly into the air to get the mobsters» attention), and Rosie is so involved with her cigarette that she is unable to open the car door for her thieving boyfriend.

Ray Liotta also shines as mafia boss Roy Demeo as does David Schwimmer in a surprising yet refreshing role as Josh Rosenthal.

Luckily, the marriage of Martin Scorsese — the unofficial mafia whisperer in modern cinema — alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg, builds upon the strength of the original film by injecting gritty realism, eliminating somber black - and - white flashbacks, and providing a grim bookend that doesn't occur in the Hong Kong film.

When the mafia come looking for the Carolina, Ginny doesn't stop them from finding the her.

A 25th anniversary edition of Martin Scorsese's great mafia movie does full justice to its multifaceted brilliance

It's not the best looking game you'll ever play, but it does look great, and Crazy Monkey has managed to fit in every little detail from every mobster / mafia style film you've ever seen.

The deal is very clearly spelled out: Connolly proposes an alliance with Whitey to inform for the FBI on their mutual enemy, Boston's Italian mafia under the Angiulo family, in exchange for leaving Whitey and his Winter Hill gang alone... as long as they didn't kill anyone.

One reporter asked him, «How do you feel about perpetuating the sterotype and the myth of the mafia, which doesn't really exist?»

The Hit Man Series works because, despite what he does for a living, Jesus is always trying to escape his life in the Spanish mafia.