(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(3) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(4) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(5) He gave a recipe for a bomb he used to make as a kid, the ingredients of which could be smuggled in.
(6) Philip Morris is similarly paying an ex-Met police officer, Will O'Reilly , to front a media campaign linking plain packaging to tobacco smuggling.
(7) But the commission called on Spain to streamline border crossings by expanding the infrastructure, and demanded both countries work together more to combat cigarette smuggling, with the UK asked to share more intelligence on the issue with Spain .
(8) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(9) Photograph: Mark Anderson “Farmers call me and they tell me that smuggling is happening,” says Emmanuel Arthur, managing director of Kuapa Kokoo , a cocoa farmers’ union.
(10) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(11) In one of the world’s poorest countries, and in a town that has no other substantial industries, smuggling is a vital financial lifeline for many local people.
(12) He told his court hearing in Rostov-on-Don: “I don’t know what your beliefs can possibly be worth if you are not ready to suffer or die for them.” Sentsov’s cousin, Natalia Kaplan, received the smuggled letter last month.
(13) 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.
(14) Ed Miliband has insisted that the people smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean are to blame for the mass drownings in recent weeks – but refused to back down from his claim that inadequate postwar planning in Libya contributed to the crisis.
(15) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
(16) Abbott said Chan and Sukumaran – who were part of the Bali Nine group that sought to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia – deserved a long time in jail but they did not deserve to die.
(17) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.
(18) 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.
(19) They claim the demand for smuggling trips will continue despite the cancellation of Mare Nostrum, since refugees have little chance of legal resettlement in countries such as Britain, which has settled only 90 Syrian refugees .
(20) The commission sent a team to investigate after a row broke out in the summer when Spanish authorities tightened frontier controls, allegedly to crack down on tobacco smuggling, forcing people trying to enter Gibraltar to suffer lengthy queues.
Smuggler
Definition:
(n.) One who smuggles.
(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(2) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
(3) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(4) Either way, both methods see the smugglers try to squeeze every last drop of profit from their clients.
(5) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(6) The more the EU closes down one route, the greater the risk that more dangerous routes will emerge, and smugglers are smart,” said Judith Sunderland, acting deputy director for the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
(7) I would work as a porter without payment Two of the smugglers were themselves Rohingya, including a religious leader, she said.
(8) Those stranded in Greece since detentions began in March sometimes pay smugglers to take them to the Greek mainland and then reach Macedonia on foot, since Macedonia’s new fence does not line the whole border.
(9) Humanitarian organisations also help with rescues at sea, which often occur when smugglers dispatch a dozen or more boats when seas are calm.
(10) Merkel avoided any direct response to the Abbott remarks, but in general commentary about the current flow of refugees, she said right now, the narrow sea lane between Turkey and Greece was under the control of smugglers and traffickers, and this was “unacceptable”.
(11) Eritrean smuggler trial in Sicily has wrong man, say former victims Read more But at a hearing earlier this month, two of the smuggler’s former victims said they did not recognise the detained man , and argued officials had seized the wrong person.
(12) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
(13) Smugglers block-booked the rooms of nearby hotels for their clients.
(14) And a dozen European warships are off the Libyan coast, currently tasked with an ineffective mission to intercept the country’s people smugglers.
(15) I just saw him in an article on Facebook and I immediately thought: this is not Mered!” A second witness, whose name is known to the Guardian and will be given to the court, asked not to be named specifically because he believes the real smuggler is still at large in Sudan, and could take revenge on his family there.
(16) At a shelter in the town of Chahuites, several migrants told the story of a Honduran migrant called Beverly who had disappeared a few days earlier: a people smuggler had kidnapped and raped her younger sister, Fatima, whom he was holding prisoner in a nearby town.
(17) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.
(18) Labor has made clear our commitment to offshore processing and regional resettlement, combined with the policy of turning back boats to ensure people smugglers are denied their trade in exploiting vulnerable people.
(19) The prosecutor of Ragusa, in south-east Sicily, is reportedly waiting for autopsies to be carried out before deciding whether to investigate two men, suspected of being the smugglers, on board for either murder or manslaughter.
(20) But since they’ve come into power there’s been a lot of criticism that a number of these policies – which include things like buying up Indonesian fishing boats and offering Indonesian villagers money in exchange for information on people-smugglers – simply can’t be done without the co-operation of Indonesia.