(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.
Snakehead
Definition:
(n.) A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
(n.) The turtlehead.
(n.) The Guinea-hen flower. See Snake's-head, and under Guinea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Fat Whites play a series of gigs before Christmas, with Dale Barclay (ex- the Amazing Snakeheads ) taking Saul’s place on stage.
(2) The presence and partial characterization of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ir-ANP) in the bulbus arteriosus were investigated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and radioimmunoassay (RIA) in several freshwater teleostean fish (catfish, silver crusian carp, snakehead, and rice eel).