You could almost imagine the smugglers, pirates, press gangs and seafarers who at one time inhabited this ancient fishing port. |
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It was not smugglers, but fruit pigeons who scattered the unsoaked seeds on other islands. |
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As the government's operations grew more sophisticated, so did those of the smugglers, or coyotes. |
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The contact boat was only two miles from Grafton, and a chase ensued, with the suspected smugglers being illuminated by powerful searchlights. |
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Like their counterparts in the drug trade, the people smugglers seek to make a living from other people's misery. |
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One shivers at her exploration of remote territories controlled by illegal loggers or narcotics smugglers. |
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The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments. |
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Following the Stamp Act upheavals, he tried to keep smugglers and other scofflaws from flouting Parliament's authority. |
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In this case inevitably our small country becomes a base for drug smugglers, arms contrabandists and terrorists of all stripes. |
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Casey, thank you for that report, a report of success in dealing with the contraband and the smugglers in the weaponry for global terrorism. |
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The fighter pilots don't need to see the smugglers to mark them with their radar. |
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But for American Scots pining for a taste of the old country, there's nothing like a haggis from Scotland and that's where the smugglers come in. |
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People smuggling is a big money industry, and the smugglers are playing for keeps. |
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Many of those coming here by boat do so at the hands of people smugglers, a trade steeped in exploitation. |
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This 16 th-century coaching inn, in the characterful market town of Pickering, once harboured smugglers moving salt from Whitby to York. |
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The smugglers have the support of local political leaders and the police, and cattle haats have mushroomed on an 8-km corridor along the border. |
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A couple of weeks ago one of the broadsheets published a photo of an aged Bob Hawke in his budgie smugglers. |
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Authorities often pursue smugglers ' ships for two days, along the many islands that run from Sakhalin Oblast to Japan. |
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They left their countries in search of a better life, paying smugglers hundreds of dollars. |
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The lighthouse stands on a plinth of rock undermined by caves, perhaps once used by smugglers. |
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They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents. |
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The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners. |
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This turns out to be a hard job, as the island seems to be inhabited only by shepherds and smugglers. |
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To move human cargo across this border, smugglers now use cell phones, walkie-talkies, even GPS devices. |
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Coast Guard cutters and aircraft formed the federal government's front-line defense during the Prohibition era against liquor smugglers. |
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Now, the house was used as a way station for illegal aliens until final payments were made to their smugglers. |
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Years of sanctions have left behind an economy dominated by racketeers and smugglers. |
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Three years later, smugglers found more artifacts in the tombs at Ikiztepe and Aktepe tumuli. |
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Besides undervaluing their goods, technical smugglers resort to misdeclaration and misclassification of the products they bring in. |
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This proves that the left over lush green forest tracks are thrown open to smugglers. |
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With no duty on kerosene in the north, smugglers are bringing heating oil south by the ton. |
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Mentionably, professional woodcutters, who are adept at handsawing of timber are hired by the timber smugglers to carry on the business. |
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The less official picture of Marko is of a gangster with a coterie of gunrunners, tobacco smugglers and drug dealers. |
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It's a journey fraught with difficulty, aided by a whole string of people smugglers. |
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He is so used to dealing with smugglers that he only talked in coded language. |
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The cigarettes were then allegedly sold to smugglers and brought illegally into Canada through native reserves and border checkpoints. |
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When the project was initiated in 1998, 23 smugglers came forward to begin life anew. |
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Weighed against the local networks of politically-sponsored smugglers, black marketers and extortionists, are the interests of China's major domestic companies. |
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But officials came to believe most of the flights were Yemeni smugglers bring in khat, a leafy plant widely chewed in Somalia for its mild narcotic effect. |
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Yazbek says the demand for safe crossing has made the smugglers very competitive. |
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The El Paso brand of deterrence is just as much directed at smugglers as immigrants, if not more so. |
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Its smugglers are a vital lifeline between that Hamas-ruled enclave and the outside world. |
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Such vehicles help the Coast Guard handle hostage situations at sea and take on pirates, poachers of marine wealth, smugglers and anti-national elements, an official said. |
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Were the smugglers doing you a favor making it nearly impossible to bring any hope? |
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And while we didn't come across smugglers or other villains, it was easy to imagine them lurking nearby, waiting to return to a cave for their buried loot when darkness fell. |
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Strategically located anti-poaching camps that serve as excellent deterrents to poachers and smugglers are indispensable in all our national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. |
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Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire. |
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The smugglers then sped off, leaving as many as a hundred people floating in the water. |
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They are undercover police officers trying to bust drug smugglers. |
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We are only scratching the surface by helping these 350 tortoises, but it is far better that they are in experienced hands than in the hands of smugglers. |
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Alien smugglers are also often involved in murder and drug dealings, so local officials believe their efforts will have a multiplier effect on other crime. |
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Polish border police fighting smugglers of people, drugs, tobacco, nuclear material and weapons are employing American Indian trackers to guard the frontier with Ukraine. |
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When we catch smugglers at sea, they will pretend to have engine trouble. |
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The smugglers, too, have taken advantage of technology, particularly cell phones and two-way radios that allow them to avoid agents and arrange rides before landing. |
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We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats. |
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Her rum and brandy will be contraband bought from sea smugglers. |
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Some smugglers even use wedding cars and funeral hearses as cover. |
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Chirac declared that entry points into EU countries would have to be much more strictly controlled and demanded consistent procedures to combat people smugglers. |
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The practice is certainly not confined to housewives buying more sugar to fill up their pantry, nor to small-time smugglers holding contraband merchandise in mountain-caves. |
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Some girls and boys are used by drug dealers and smugglers to transport and sell drugs and contraband goods and some are used to beg on the streets. |
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Willie worked as a home finance adviser for Barclays Bank and used names from a database at work to help the drug smugglers get through airport customs checks. |
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Some smugglers hide the whole transportation vehicle or ship used to bring the items into an area. |
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Beaches, swimming pools and back gardens will be a spectacle of manly moobs, beer bellies, budgie smugglers and sunburnt backs. |
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A large number of suspected smugglers are caught each year by customs worldwide. |
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During the 18th century, the Devon, Somerset and Exmoor coastline was full of smugglers. |
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Many attempt to make it across the Timor Sea illegally, often with human smugglers, in boats that sink on the way. |
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Although the granite smugglers use explosives in stone quarrying, the seizer of such a huge quantity suggests something more serious. |
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Police stopped a car near Mian Garh Hangu Road and recovered 5kg Charas and arrested three smugglers Sher Afzal, Kismat Khan and Faida Hussain. |
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A MAN has been fined and banned from recreational fishing in Victoria after confusing his budgie smugglers for abalone smugglers. |
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Indeed, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock, was one of America's most prominent smugglers of uncustomed goods. |
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Critics express concern that it could turn Aqaba into a haven for smugglers and undermine sovereignty. |
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The UWS set up the sanctuaries to care for orphaned chimpanzees and animals seized from smugglers. |
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The crew of the cattle ship Ezadeen, thought to be people smugglers, had abandoned ship. |
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The federal opposition says people smugglers now see Australia as a soft touch on border security. |
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A vice admiralty court was also formed in Nova Scotia to try smugglers and to enforce the Sugar Act of 1764 throughout British North America. |
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In my opinion I think that the smugglers are real criminals. |
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The act was opposed by those who resisted the taxes and also by smugglers who stood to lose business. |
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We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers. |
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To acquire luxury items he could not produce, Garcia, like most coastal rancheros, traded hides, tallow, and produce to smugglers. |
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Outsourcing became a huge factor for survival for many smugglers and opium farmers. |
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Border guards on the southern border of the Kingdom with Yemen are doing a commendable job in protecting the country infiltrators and smugglers. |
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It was common for smugglers in Colombia to import liquor, alcohol, cigarettes and textiles, while exporting cocaine. |
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Currently they are used for water patrols and combat against drug smugglers. |
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The park is frequently associated with ghosts, particularly related to smugglers, with several tales of sightings around the park. |
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Which politician, famed for his budgie smugglers, won the general election in Australia in September? |
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That is the beginning of a road which often ends on the beach in a pair of budgie smugglers. |
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Meeting Turkey's camera-shy people smugglers Smugglers are generally camera shy. |
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The Russification failed owing to an extensive network of book smugglers and secret Lithuanian home schooling. |
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In the early 19th century, smugglers were very active on the Kent coastline. |
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Sadly, short shorts got out of hand among men when they morphed into what was termed budgie smugglers. |
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As the smuggler faces significant risk of civil and criminal penalties if caught with contraband, smugglers are able to impose a significant price premium on smuggled goods. |
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Belize's rugged geography has also made the country's coastline and jungle attractive to drug smugglers, who use the country as a gateway into Mexico. |
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Gyllenhaal, 28, spent time with convicted drug smugglers and murderers to understand their psyche for the film where he plays a grown up juvenile delinquent. |
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Peasant farmers produced coca paste in Peru and Bolivia, while Colombian smugglers would process the coca paste into cocaine in Colombia, and trafficked product through Cuba. |
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Xenophysics, especially at this level, were not his strong suit. But you didn't go about busting artefact smugglers for a decade without learning something. |
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During Spanish and Mexican rule, this remote lagoon was used by American, British, and Russian smugglers intent on avoiding tariffs and regulations. |
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It did not have any taint of criminality and the whole of the south coast had pockets vying with one another over whose smugglers were the darkest or most daring. |
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This originated from a story of smugglers who managed to foil the local Excise men by hiding their alcohol, possibly French brandy in barrels or kegs, in a village pond. |
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Officials also said that joint forces managed to free 14 civilians being held by the smugglers and confiscated weapons, explosives and detonable vests during the operation. |
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