Sentences with phrase «mafias who»

The livelihoods of many Malagasy citizens and the wildlife that depend on these resources are being systematically plundered by timber mafias who feed end markets that forgo legality and sustainability.

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?

Tom is none to happy with the exposure, save that it boosts business briefly, but his fame has another effect in that it brings more strangers to town, this time in the form of the mafia who are looking for someone they swear is Tom.

I've been doing this long enough to know that no two people define the «big bloggers» the same way, and there's no secret blogging mafia who controls the internet.

Xi had earlier hit the headlines with his graduation piece from Goldsmiths College, when he scattered # 1,200 in a room and let the audience scramble for it in order to show «the greed at the centre of art and the mafia who run it like a market».

It's like a damn mafia who is out there collecting our hard earned money for «protection».

Not exact matches

If the so - called Winnipeg mafia — those power brokers who hail from the keystone province — ever handed out loyalty cards, Rick Waugh would warrant super-elite status.

The PayPal mafia was a group of American business people and investors who were founders or early employees of the e-commerce company PayPal.

Meanwhile, the actual MAFIA guys — who are murderous evildoers — get away unscathed.

This is like comparing a man who murders someone (or multiple people) to the mafia.

When I shake hands with God, you'll know precisely who I am responsive mafia don!

they can be more moral than you are the italian mafia were and are some of the largest donors to the catholic church ~ certianily no morality there all the «christian» preachers who sodomize young men, cavort with wh0res, steal all the manna ~ high morals because they are forgiven ~ again and again and again and again... ad naseumn....

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?..

When you are the oldest «mafia» organization, there are no «enemies» just people who rightly resent the rackets.

Those who write about a «lavender mafia» that dominates some seminaries, chancery offices, and church bureaucracies may sometimes overstate the matter.

Yes, cary c, it's only Wenger mafia like status, who to blame.

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.

Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.

Somilarly, all defenders of people who were falsely accused in pedoplilia are pedophile mafia, those who are against lynching of suspected pedophiles are pedophiles themselves etc..

But he has a past, that of a prominent Los Angles trial lawyer who once defended a mafia boss.

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.

Cox was responding to criticism of Manhattan GOP Chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis, who said Monday that «Gov. Cuomo and Joe Percoco have been running the governor's office like a mafia movie.»

Congressman Chris Collins stands with actress Edie Falco, known for her role as a mafia wife in the television series «The Sopranos,» who is campaigning to ban the use of animals in military medical field trauma training.

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

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Forced into a well - timed «vacation» he never asked for Josh finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep into the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at.

«The Cooler» (Lions Gate) The Vegas - based comedy features Alec Baldwin as a mafia - owned casino manager who deploys the walking, talking jinxmeister (William H. Macy) to «cool» winning streaks in his casino.

Fantastic movie about a young arab man (Tahar Rahim) who is sent to a french prison, where he befriends a mafia kingpin called Cesare Luciani.

Michael is operating under the behest of Irina (Kate Winslet), a nasty Russian mafia head who is desperate to secure the release of her husband from a gulag.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

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.

While this boy learns different things from his real family and his mafia family, who are always at odds, they actually both want the same things for this kid.

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.»

Though the movie is more than a little ridiculous at times — especially the contrived manner in which the mafia learns of Giovanni's whereabouts — that's to be expected from director Luc Besson, who excels at the absurd.

Matthias Schoenaerts plays a» roided - up beef - industry lackey who ordinarily has no trouble with the mafia, but takes issue with his uncle's new business relationship with a known cop - killer, especially once he learns that one of the men he'll be dealing with is Jeroen Perceval, a former friend.

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

Boyd's involvement with the Mexican heroin trade last season was a dismal failure, and as a result he's renting his services as a bank robber out to Dixie mafia staple Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) and the even more ruthless Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen), who was once married to a Southern mob kingpin and seeks to rip off a new enemy.

Set during Britain's waning rule of Hong Kong, OCTB follows an undercover detective who crosses paths with some less - than savory members of the mafia.

Michael Shannon stars as Richard Kuklinski, a devoted family man who moonlights as a mafia hitman in director Ariel Vromen's drama.

Looking to expand his empire, Diaz (guest star Kirk Acevedo) and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) meet with The Quadrant, a coalition of mafia families who run national organized crime.

«Rob the Mob,» which is based on an actual adventure by two naïve lovers who raided and ripped off money and jewelry from mafia «social clubs,» is all the more amazing for being true.

The film includes a passionate romance of a couple that can make you believe the scene involving sex in a tiny phone booth, a rehash of the 1991 arrest of mafia chieftain John Gotti, and a family drama about a young man who makes too few visits to his mother and kid brother to impress them even though he offers them an envelope filled with more cash than they could make in five years.

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz were slated to star in the French auteur's film, based on a 2007 Playboy article called «Boosting The Big Tuna» by Hillel Levin about a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

Salma Hayek is Everly, a sex slave who attempts to escape the flat where she's been kept prisoner for four years and slaughters a whole load of Japanese mafia bad guys on the way.

This London - based mafia film starts with a barber who seems to think he's Sweeney Todd.