(n.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.
(n.) A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.
(v. t.) To defy or challenge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
(2) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
(3) As border security has been tightened in recent years, and the flow of migrant workers has declined, routes across the border have been controlled by violent drug cartels.
(4) The death of Esparragoza would be the second blow to the Sinaloa cartel this year, following the February arrest of its most famous kingpin, Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán .
(5) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(6) And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
(7) Ofcom has already received a complaint from Virgin Media , which sees Canvas as an anti-competitive cartel that will crush the nascent online TV market.
(8) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(9) Cole did leave the door open to a change in approach, saying federal authorities should still step in if those involved in the regulated marijuana trade failed to support eight “enforcement priorities” set by the department, which include ensuring the drug is not smuggled across state borders, accessed by minors, or used to fund criminal cartels or violence.
(10) In recent years, the DEA has increased its presence in Africa, primarily in response to the growing footprint of Colombian and Venezuelan drug cartels in west African countries.
(11) Mexican police and soldiers have arrested Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, giving President Enrique Peña Nieto his second capture of a kingpin in less than a week.
(12) A long-term non-executive director of banking group HSBC – which paid a fine of $1.9bn in 2012 to settle US money-laundering accusations involving Mexican and Colombian drug cartels – Fairhead has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
(13) Conservative activists who planned to protest against illegal immigration and President Obama’s immigration policies on Saturday said they had canceled all events after receiving death threats from Mexican drug cartels.
(14) The strategy pursued by successive Mexican governments of going after criminal kingpins has resulted in numerous spectacular arrests and takedowns and weakened several important cartels.
(15) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.
(16) "My government is absolutely determined to continue fighting against criminality without quarter until we put a stop to this common enemy and obtain the Mexico we want," President Felipe Calderón, who declared war against cartels in 2006, said in recent newspaper advertisements.
(17) Agents of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded there could only be one customer for such a collection: the Mexican drug cartels fighting a bloody war against each other, the government and civilians south of the Texas border.
(18) "Personally, I sometimes wish drugs would be made legal so that the gringos can get high and we can live in peace," said Tijuana police officer Elisio Montes, whose two best friends, his former boss and assistant, were murdered by executioners for the cartels.
(19) He left for Europe as the most overt urban violence was ending, after the Medellín cartel boss Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993.
(20) Probably El Salvador is more of a sieve for the influx of guns than the United States is … The argument ends with: the United States does not supply the cartels with weapons."
Carvel
Definition:
(n.) Same as Caravel.
(n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nominees for best actor in a musical are Bertie Carvel for his monstrous Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, Nigel Lindsay in Shrek, Reece Shearsmith in Betty Blue Eyes and Paulo Szot in South Pacific.
(2) John Carvel Scott Thomas to play Lennon's aunt in biopic She is best known for roles which are quintessentially English and more often than not quite posh but now Kristin Scott Thomas is to take on hard-as-nails Scouse after being cast as John Lennon's tough-minded Aunt Mimi in artist Sam Taylor-Wood's debut feature film.
(3) The impetus for the study was the recent reports of major differences in the organization of cortex lateral and caudal to the SI in two other rodent species; the mouse (Carvell and Simons, '86: Somatosens.
(4) Meanwhile, Daily Show head writer Tim Carvell summed up the possible mood in Affleck's camp to the mixed reaction when he tweeted: "Spend ten years working your way back into everyone's good graces.
(5) John Carvel, social affairs editor Child poverty bill The government has been committed to eradicating child poverty by 2020 but has been frustrated in recent years by slow progress.
(6) We filed to authorize this new funding more than two months ago,” Kristin Carvell, a spokeswoman for Uber, said in an email.
(7) It’s as if one has left one’s body and touched down in another, alternative universe, full of actors you’ve never heard of playing characters with porn movie names – Raymie Steele, Shasta Carvell, Buck Williams – who emote, soapily, to the kind of music that you hear while on hold to speak to someone about life insurance.