(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."
Within
Definition:
(prep.) In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.
(prep.) In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income.
(prep.) Hence, inside the limits, reach, or influence of; not going outside of; not beyond, overstepping, exceeding, or the like.
(adv.) In the inner part; inwardly; internally.
(adv.) In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(4) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(5) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(6) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(7) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(8) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(9) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(10) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(11) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(12) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(13) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(14) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(15) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(16) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(17) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(18) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(19) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(20) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.