(1) 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 .
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) In the short term, Guzmán’s escape is more of a political than a security question,” the specialist website Insight Crime said, highlighting the way his arrest had been greeted in the US as proof that the Mexican government was both willing and able to go after even the biggest kingpins.
(5) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
(6) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(7) In his final audio released at the end of last year, the kingpin said he regretted all the violence he had overseen.
(8) La Tuta captured: Mexico's flamboyant primary teacher turned drug kingpin Read more In recent days the Mexican government has celebrated the capture of two top cartel suspects: on Wednesday Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the notoriously brutal Zetas drug cartel, was caught in the northern city of Monterrey .
(9) The recapture of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will have no impact on Mexico’s multibillion-dollar drug trade unless he is extradited to the United States, experts have warned.
(10) It was accused of scheming with Iran to hide billions of pounds’ worth of transactions from the authorities, leaving the financial system susceptible to “terrorists” and “drug kingpins”.
(11) Peter Sands, the chief executive of Standard Chartered, came out fighting against accusations by a US regulator that the British bank conspired with Iranian clients to move $250bn (£160bn) around the financial system for terrorists and "drug kingpins" as he attempted to repair the bank's battered reputation.
(12) One of the world's most sought after cocaine kingpins was hunted down and captured in Colombia yesterday in the toughest blow against the country's drugs trade in more than a decade.
(13) In recent months Beltran Leyva had begun leaving messages beside his victims signed by El Jefe de Jefes , the Boss of Bosses, although few took the claim seriously in a context where much of the violence stems from the inability of any kingpin to establish hegemony over the others, or even lasting alliances.
(14) This announcement marks the first steps in a sensible return to realign funding, focus and efforts into moving away from a largely prohibitionist approach to the much more effective approach of harm minimisation.” The justice minister, Michael Keenan, said local police were working with intelligence and policy agencies in Mexico, Iran, China and other countries to stop the drug from entering the country and to arrest drug kingpins.
(15) Many say his government’s assault on drug cartels and arrest of kingpins actually fueled the growth of Sinaloa and its major rival, the Zetas, which are now going head-to-heard for lucrative territory.
(16) Thai authorities have since arrested dozens of people, including a powerful mayor and a man named Soe Naing, otherwise known as Anwar, who was accused of being one of the trafficking kingpins in southern Thailand.
(17) The assigned reporter first ruled out initial information that the missing body was Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán – the leader of the Sinaloa cartel and the most famous of Mexico's many kingpins.
(18) The accusations followed claims from the family, housemates and neighbours of Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe that the 29-year-old had been mistaken for Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a 35-year-old smuggling kingpin supposedly deported from Sudan on Wednesday.
(19) The government has been heavily criticised for its inability to stop the flow and for turning a blind eye to so-called kingpins linked to the large and influential Chinese community in the country.
(20) Taking down the biggest kingpins has undoubtedly weakened several formerly powerful cartels, but it also appears to have provided the Jalisco-based cartel with opportunities for growth and expansion.
Pin
Definition:
(v. t.) To peen.
(v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
(n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
(n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
(n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
(n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(n.) A linchpin.
(n.) A rolling-pin.
(n.) A clothespin.
(n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
(n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
(n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
(n.) Mood; humor.
(n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
(n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
(n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
(n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
(2) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
(3) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
(4) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(6) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
(7) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(8) A Charnley apparatus or turnbuckles placed between the pins on each side of the fracture provided the mechanical advantage for repositioning the fracture fragments and achieving rigid fixation during healing.
(9) Ankle arthrodesis treated by external fixation frequently results in complications from pin tract infections, loss of position, nonunion, and malunion.
(10) There were no cases of pin-track osteomyelitis, fractures through pintracks, or neurovascular damage from pin insertion.
(11) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
(12) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
(13) The OECD pinned the blame for the disadvantage for girls in maths and science on low expectations among parents and teachers, as well as lack of self-confidence and what it called the ability to “think like a scientist” in answering problems.
(14) Retrograde intramedullary pinning was accomplished in all calves, using 2 (n = 4 calves) or 3 (n = 8 calves) pins.
(15) The defective pinF gene is suggested to hae the same origin as P-pin on e14 by the restriction map of the fragment cloned from a Pin+ transductant that was obtained in transduction from S. flexneri to E. coli delta pin.
(16) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
(17) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
(18) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
(19) In AP and lateral radiographs of the hip, measurements are made of the cervicofemoral angles, the diameter of the femoral head and neck, and the distances from the central femoral neck axis to each pin.
(20) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.