Althea had checked her two bags, but she took her three tennis rackets with her. |
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They are immersed in exploitation, extortion, and illegal rackets within prison walls. |
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Joe eventually makes it to a level that attracts the big protection rackets, acquires money and eventually is pitted against a big name. |
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Small and medium enterprises are harassed by the state or gangsters' rackets. |
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Together they offer protection to other rackets in town while running their own illegal enterprises. |
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In the brothel and nightclub strip, crime bosses got the green light to organise prostitution and illegal gambling rackets. |
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He warned in certain parts of the country it has created the risk of illegal protection rackets growing up. |
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They lie, rob, cheat, push hard drugs, intimidate innocent people and run protection rackets. |
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He also runs a number of extortion rackets and has been convicted for damaging bars in and around Belfast. |
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Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? |
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The challenges included running, catching, balancing tennis balls on rackets and practising ground strokes and volleys. |
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The feud is the result of a long-standing turf war between the two groups to control the North's drug trade and extortion rackets. |
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The military has also been widely accused of involvement in arms running, people smuggling, drugs, illegal logging and extortion rackets. |
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But newer rackets have given enough of an advantage to the return of serve that virtually no one plays the serve-and-volley game anymore. |
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When Raymond Chandler found himself stringing tennis rackets for a living, he was probably working with bits of whale tendon. |
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Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies. |
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When it was totally illegal, the Mafia ran prostitution and the numbers rackets right through Chicago and right through New York. |
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The centrepiece of the set, a T-Rex sculpture comprised only of tennis rackets and stilettos, is a work of art in itself. |
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The new tank is made of carbon fibre, similar to materials used in high-end bicycles and tennis rackets. |
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The clashes are mostly triggered over protection rackets targeting nightclubs, bars and karaoke cafes operated by soldiers and policemen. |
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Young faces peer from behind field-hockey rackets, plastic bins, unusual fly swatters, car cup holders and tool caddies. |
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The rule of law is fragile, with gangs of thugs running protection rackets in many cities, in the absence of a reliable police force. |
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The army, on the other hand, is notorious for its protection rackets and other illegal activities in the province. |
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The rackets and rods remained unused but we gave the excellent wine list some serious investigation. |
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Tennis-elbow-addled fans admired stars like Borg and McEnroe because they knew how tough it was to hit accurate, firm strokes with wooden rackets with tiny sweet spots. |
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Those rackets already have standard strings so can give it a go right away. |
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Students started a knockabout game which, because it was played in a confined area, required a softer ball than the hard one used for rackets. |
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It attacks the supposed entitlements of some – mainly the poor – while leaving rackets such as negative-gearing in place. |
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Hundreds of new unions sprang up, many of which, businessmen gripe, are simply a cover for extortion rackets. |
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To score a point, badminton players hit the shuttlecock with their rackets in an attempt to make the shuttlecock land on their opponent's court. |
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There is no cleaning up of numbers games, bookies, illegal gambling rackets or underground black market racketeers. |
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Squash developed from the game of rackets in England in the mid-19th century. |
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We called for all businesses to stop paying protection rackets extorted by the mafia. |
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They are used in sports articles like tennis rackets, baseball bats, bicycle frames, skis and surfboards. |
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In some districts, militias in the pay of chieftain-warlords menace local populations with protection rackets and other crime. |
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A set of 4 bowlers, an elastique ball, two rackets and a ball Foam, 1 ball plastic and a game of hoops. |
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Street children are constantly victimized by rackets, because they don't want to give up money that they've worked so hard to earn. |
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Blackmail, extortion, protection rackets and ransom demands have all made move leap to the internet. |
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Some of the rackets we have encountered involved concealing stolen goods in vacuum-cleaning bags, buckets of soapy water and even, once, in lumps of unbaked bread dough. |
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We can deal more effectively with drug dealers and organized crime figures that run lotteries and numbers rackets and things like that than with terrorists. |
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Their gang, The Firm, established a Mafia-style grip on the city's criminal underworld in the 1960s, specialising in protection and extortion rackets. |
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Instead, paramilitary gangs carve out fiefdoms to exploit drug-dealing and protection rackets, while young people look up to these criminals as role models. |
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As of 2005, Safin estimated he had broken more than 300 rackets in emotional outbursts. |
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With these light but well-balanced rackets, the ball stays on the strings longer, giving extra control and more spin, yet it still jumps off with zing. |
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Borg liked his rackets strung at 80 lb pressure, which was incredibly tight, almost impossible to achieve without breaking a string or twisting the wooden frame. |
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These bats are primarily insectivorous, and most hawk insects in flight, often using their wings like tennis rackets and swatting the insects into the tail membrane. |
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Indeed, to destabilise Kabylie, a very sensitive region where insecurity linked to kidnapping with demands for ransom and other rackets have taken a disturbing turn. |
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It has also prompted the creation of youth gangs whose main activity is attacking haulage vehicles and running protection rackets against small businesses and school children in poor neighborhoods of large cities. |
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Unfamiliar gangs have laid claim to your territory, rival factions have taken over your rackets, and cash-hungry corporations have laid waste to your once proud 3rd Street home. |
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It is also used in shipbuilding and in the manufacture of sporting equipment such as golf clubs, bicycles, skis, tennis rackets, baseball bats and underwater diving knives. |
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When they were younger, these men took to the streets to fight their exploitation by the yakuza, the organised crime syndicates which still run the local labour-broking and gambling rackets. |
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Students modified their rackets to have a smaller reach to play in these cramped conditions. |
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For the first 100 years of the modern game, rackets were made of wood and of standard size, and strings were of animal gut. |
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These stronger materials enabled the production of oversized rackets that yielded yet more power. |
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The rules regarding rackets have changed over time, as material and engineering advances have been made. |
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In addition to perpetrating human rights abuses, vigilante groups typical degenerate into protection rackets, and may eventually become predatory gangs in their own right. |
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They do not have the scale to mount their own cartels, but appear to be evolving in the direction of independent mafia structures running their own rackets while renting out their specialised services to the 'narcos. |
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What is a home without keys for which there are no locks, unstrung tennis rackets and unsmoked pipes, sweaters that will never again be worn, and musical instruments that will never again be played? |
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The same companies sponsor players to use these rackets in the hopes that the company name will become more well known by the public. |
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A number of those supporters will travel home tomorrow treasuring their booty after Murray threw his wristbands, spare shirts and even his rackets into the crowd. |
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The event was sponsored by Prince and Sport Newcastle, who gave every entrant a t-shirt and supplied the winners with squash rackets and bags. |
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This is nothing but delayed extortion, but I have heard rackets like this referred to as a cottage industry. |
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The leisure industry is taking advantage of the first advances in carbon nanotubes to make lighter tennis rackets, golf clubs and other sports equipment. |
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It was founded in 1793, making it one of the oldest rackets clubs in the world, and the first in the Indian subcontinent. |
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Pirate fleets exercised hegemony over villages on the coast, collecting revenue by exacting tribute and running extortion rackets. |
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Three years ago, a judge said the 54-year-old was involved in protection rackets, money-laundering and drug dealing. |
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It is believed that the plannedmurderis linked to gambling and protection rackets. |
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The five brothers started out as petty crooks involved in drug dealing, protection rackets and shoplifting. |
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They started protection rackets in the East End after taking over a snooker club, and steadily expanded their empire. |
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What's more alarming that is some of the extortionists are running their rackets fearlessly from inside Tihar, Rohini and Rohtak jails. |
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Squash was invented in Harrow School out of the older game rackets around 1830 before the game spread to other schools, eventually becoming an international sport. |
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The rackets have changed in a similar way to those used in tennis. |
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This game of tennis without rackets is not for the tender-handed. |
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This stylish sixpart series is about a gang who conceal blades in the peaks of their caps, and terrorise the Wild West Midlands with gambling and protection rackets. |
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The use of stringed rackets is shared with tennis, which dates from the late sixteenth century, though is more directly descended from the game of rackets from England. |
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Sheep intestine can be formed into sausage casings, and lamb intestine has been formed into surgical sutures, as well as strings for musical instruments and tennis rackets. |
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