Sentences with phrase «smuggling through»

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.

Four peers have copied - and - pasted the snoopers» charter into a pre-existing bill, hoping to smuggle it through parliament

In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a virus is smuggled through customs.

From snakes in bras to drugs in sex toys, the things people try to smuggle through airport custom control are as ridiculous as they are varied.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

Eight years before Protective Edge, Shalit, an Israeli soldier, was smuggled from Israeli territory into the Gaza Strip through one such tunnel, after Hamas operatives killed three of his tank crewmates and abducted him in a surprise attack near the border.

The documentary showed Prince Harry and Prince William looking through Diana's personal album, talking about childhood memories, and speaking about her «fun» parenting — she apparently used to smuggle them sweets.

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.

Now Whitehead smuggles in that divine illumination through the backdoor of hybrid prehension.

Counterfeit wine is a particularly pervasive problem in Asia with many premium wines smuggled into China through various illegal channels.

We almost knocked them out, in their own backyard, until Michael Oliver smuggled them into the semis, through the back door.

And it now seems that officials from the principality side have smuggled the 29 - year - old in through the back door to discuss his potential early return.

The fencing of Israel's border in 2012 - 13 and destructive military raids in the Sinai Peninsula have severely dampened the trafficking of Eritreans through Egypt into Israel and opened up an alternative smuggling route via Khartoum to Libya.

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

The Port Authority is being forced to keep bad cops on the payroll — including one who moonlighted as a masseuse and then got convicted of molesting a female client and another who allegedly helped smuggle hashish through JFK — because their union refuses to submit to the agreed - upon disciplinary process, according to a new lawsuit.

A film crew linked to CNBC was arrested for trying to smuggle a fake bomb through a security checkpoint Newark International Airport, authorities said.

«A World Bank report of 2016 states that an astonishing N1.45 tn worth of assorted goods are smuggled into Nigeria through Benin Republic alone every year.

«The report was unequivocal in stating that an astonishing five billion dollars or N1.45 tn worth of different goods are smuggled into Nigeria annually through Benin Republic alone.

«It is, in effect, a partisan attempt to smuggle reform in through the back door.»

Those two agencies led the 23 - day manhunt by more than 1,100 officers for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after cutting their way through the metal wall of their cells with hacksaw blades smuggled to them.

Robbers may have plundered the ancient tombs in the Western Desert in Egypt; afterward, individuals may have smuggled the wooden covers from Egypt to Dubai, and then through another European country before ending up in Israel.

The idea here is to find a miracle device that will see right through clothes and detect handguns people might be trying to smuggle into courtrooms, or just carrying around on the street.

Employees of the Chinese agricultural company Dabeinong Technology Group Co. (DBN) and a subsidiary sneaked through midwestern cornfields, U.S. prosecutors allege, stealthily gathering patented corn that they attempted to smuggle out of the United States in microwave popcorn boxes.

Shooting got underway on the story (about a search - and - rescue medical spaceship that rescues a man who's smuggled an alien artifact on board), with a cast including Angela Bassett, James Spader, Robert Forster and none - more - nineties faces like Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli, but things went swiftly south, with the studio cutting Hill's budget midway through production.

Wang does successfully smuggle her film and audio recordings out of China and goes through a process to get her film edited and completed with the help of the Catalyst Forum at the Sundance Institute and other contributors.

The movie, which was directed by Broken Lizard member Jay Chandrasekhar and written by group, followed the misadventures of five highway patrol troopers who, through crazy angst and comedic gags, undercover a drug smuggling operation in their Vermont town.

Their latest assignment is to take down a major drug operation run by the nefarious General Mortars (Shatner, Star Trek VI), who has concocted an ingenious scheme to smuggle his drugs through boxes of Wilderness Girls cookies.

Peter Brook and Joseph Losey were smuggling a continental art house style through the backdoor of the British film industry.

Finally, April brings a slew of comedies, including the Drake Bell / Ryan Pinkston boobiefest «College,» Tina Fey's «Baby Mama,» and the aforementioned Rob Schneider vehicle, «Big Stan» — but the ones to watch are «Leatherheads,» starring George Clooney and John Krasinski as teammates vying for the affections of Renee Zellweger; «The Rocker,» starring Rainn Wilson as a washed - up hair - metal drummer whose nephew's band offers him another shot at the big time; and «Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo,» in which the two lovable stoners from «Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle» try to smuggle a bong through customs and wind up in the hoosegow to end all hoosegows.

While Emily Blunt won't return, Josh Brolin will reprise his role as CIA Agent Matt Graver, who'll reteam with Del Toro's character to monitor what — and who — is being smuggled across the U.S. / Mexico border through tunnels.

Along the way they go through the checklist of indie road movie conventions: meet eccentric characters (including a guy who communicates solely through text messaging), get sidelined by random distractions and argue over Colton's ill - advised idea of smuggling a brick of cocaine (ingeniously concealed in the glove box).

It's an alternate gateway, if you will — an inventive way of smuggling prospective fans in through some kind of back door.

Sloe, 13, treks through a dangerous, dystopian wilderness as she searches for a safe haven for the DNA of the genetically engineered animal species that she is smuggling.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region's economy depended heavily on fishing; smuggling was also a key activity, and became more so during the period of Prohibition in the United States, during which nearly two million gallons of Canadian whiskey traveled through the islands on their way to the US.

The Vizsla nearly became extinct after World War II due to its ties to aristocrats, but was rescued through smuggling.

The darker side of this animal exploitation, the mistreatment of these majestic creatures through smuggling, separation or use in elephant begging, however can be particularly cruel.

For instance, in September 1990 Mexican federal judicial police seized approximately 457 kilograms of cocaine, which they suspected had been smuggled into Mexico through the border area between Belize's Hondo River and Santa Teresa, Mexico.

Go through it and you'll emerge at the rocky cove, which was once used for shipping logs (and later to smuggle moonshine).

As you sneak out of prison with another live human player, you'll coordinate to misdirect guards, smuggle contraband, and crawl through vents on the way to freedom.

However, his ironic self - portraits posed in a Mao suit in front of American landmarks found their way to Communist China and were profoundly influential for China ‟ s avant - garde, including conceptual artists Song Dong and Zhang Huan, who were exposed to Tseng ‟ s images through western magazines smuggled into the country in the 1980 ‟ s. Tseng ‟ s photographs not only satirized relations between the United States and its emerging rival, China, but also broadcasted his freedom of movement - a privilege denied most Chinese artists at the time.

Corsican authorities had been told that the painting may have been smuggled and was coming through Corsica.

Only, instead of paint, Ms. Ham commissions North Korean workers to embroider her canvases, smuggling them out of the country through China.

Born in Berlin in 1931 to a Jewish family, Frank Auerbach was smuggled to Britain on the outbreak of war to escape the Antisemitism then sweeping through Nazis Germany — his parents perished in a concentration camp in 1942.

Through a complicated, lengthy and dangerous process, Ham uses an intermediary to smuggle the blueprints of works she wants embroidered into North Korea through middle countries where they eventually, but not always, make their way into the hands of the arThrough a complicated, lengthy and dangerous process, Ham uses an intermediary to smuggle the blueprints of works she wants embroidered into North Korea through middle countries where they eventually, but not always, make their way into the hands of the arthrough middle countries where they eventually, but not always, make their way into the hands of the artisans.

The opening and closing scenes of the video take place inside a car (image above) and document the journey that some of the protagonists and I made to the centre of Athens to covertly receive a newly arrived Pakistani family member, who reached the country through smuggling networks after a month in transit.

Would it be the Larsen taking 2 years to sail through the NW passage, instead of less than a week now a days??? Or is it some secret Nazi Arctic submarine navigation chart smuggled to Argentina after the war, the U-boats needed to surface often for air, and it was so ice free they had a regular sub charter schedule to Japan.

Smuggling of ivory into or through the United States remains a significant problem.

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Traffickers are using the dark web to smuggle extremely lethal chemicals into San Diego from China through online orders and then to Mexico, confirmed the U.S. Attorney's office.

China has long been home to a booming illicit «trade» for new iPhones smuggled into the country through ports like Hong Kong or Shanghai.