(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."
Martel
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mention deserve also Otfried Foerster, Thierry de Martel, Clovis Vincent, René Leriche and Ludwig Puusepp.
(2) A modified version of a questionnaire by Martell and Mitchell was administered at five separate intervals to 50 postpartum women with uncomplicated vaginal deliveries.
(3) Vitamin D3 treatment of the human promyelocytic cell line, HL-60, is accompanied by an increase in phorbol ester receptor number (Martell, R. E., Simpson, R. U., and Taylor, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(4) The original De Martell drill was redesigned into a hole-saw for simultaneous production of burr-holes and appropriate autologous bone plugs.
(5) Cooperative binding isotherms for protons have long been observed (but not emphasized as cooperative binding) when studies have been done on clusters for the evaluation of metal ion complexation [A. E. Martell & M. Calvin (1952) Chemistry of the Metal Chelate Compounds, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey].
(6) Much of the artistic vocabulary for Boyce's installation derives from a modernist garden, complete with concrete trees, created by designers Joel and Jan Martel in Paris in 1925.
(7) The president of my former club Lens, Gervais Martel, said I left because I got more money in England, that I didn't care about the shirt.
(8) 80, 269-276; Martel, R., Cloney, L. P., Pelcher, L. E., and Hemmingsen, S. M. (1990) Gene (Amst.)
(9) Judith Rodriguez, a member of PEN’s Writers Circle The PEN statement is signed by Margaret Atwood and Ian Rankin , along with Lebanese author Hanan Al-Shaykh; Turkish author Elif Shafak; Canadian author Yann Martel; journalist Robert Cottrell; poet Judith Rodriguez; chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, Salil Tripathi; president of PEN International, Jennifer Clement; and president emeritus of PEN International, John Ralston Saul.
(10) Musicians Bob Geldof and Peter Gabriel have also signed the petition, as have writers Ali Smith, Kamila Shamsie, Philip Pullman and Yann Martel.
(11) So he got a friend to send him a book in which the Martels' design was illustrated.
(12) New York City resident Huguette Martel, who moved from France, has spent a decade living in two apartments evensmaller than the proposed micro-unit.
(13) "The Messi family has always wanted to act with transparency, clarity and to collaborate [with the court], and it was the same today," said their lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, outside the courthouse.
(14) It is possible to preserve ischemic intestinal segments, which currently are routinely resected, following superior mesenteric artery occlusion by exteriorizing them through the abdominal wall with De Martell clamps and observing them carefully.
(15) It's a technically staggering adaptation of Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel about an Indian teenager who finds himself adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger.
(16) On Tuesday, Life of Pi author Yann Martel will release an open letter to Azimjon Askarov, a human rights journalist from Kyrgyzstan’s Uzbek minority who has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
(17) More than 150 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel and Colm Tóibín, signed a letter condemning the series of fatal attacks and calling on the government of Bangladesh “to ensure that the tragic events … are not repeated”.
(18) To date the magical realist novel by Yann Martel has sold 3.3m copies in all formats.
(19) More than 150 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel and Colm Tóibín, signed a letter condemning the series of fatal attacks and calling on the country’s government “to ensure that the tragic events … are not repeated”.
(20) Alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) bound to trophoblastic cells in rat placenta is activated by Mg2+ and inhibited by Zn2+ in the same way as is found with partially purified soluble alkaline phosphatase in the same tissue (PetitClerc, C., Delisle, M., Martel, M., Fecteau, C. & Brière, N. (1975) Can.