With reference to hijackings, Hackart said police would target, for example, chop shops and syndicates. |
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Trafficking is linked to international crime syndicates that peddle drugs, guns and false documents as well as people. |
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Balloons cost between 3 and 4 million and pilots often form syndicates to split the cost and share balloons. |
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There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia. |
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All we have noticed was that local syndicates were using corrupt government officials to defraud the state. |
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Theres a more anti police beat officer feeling to as the area is beginning to be run by the West Indian Yardies and crime syndicates. |
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Crime syndicates in the area were believed to be targeting vessels carrying valuable palm oil and gas oil. |
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Most of the action is initiated by injuries, assorted rumors, and betting syndicates. |
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Are these stories generated locally or do they come from other sources such as syndicates, wire services or other newspapers? |
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Ironically, online news sites become even more dependent on news agency wholesalers and features syndicates to fill the expanded news hole. |
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By contrast, the syndicates of private investors have become more ambitious. |
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In the meanwhile, newspapers are in trouble and are all too happy to pick up criticism from their affiliated syndicates. |
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We have not explored the way in which estimates were made by individual syndicates or individual auditors. |
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United Media syndicates many of the most popular newspaper comic strips, and showcases all its assets for free at Comics.com. |
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Some of these syndicates provide a tax advantage, allowing individuals to invest through their pension contributions. |
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The mushrooming of political parties, syndicates, and newspapers signals a nascent political pluralism upon which democracy can be built. |
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Accountability was also non-existent and officials became easy targets for organised crime syndicates. |
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Most land is private property and owned by large business syndicates and individuals. |
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The police say there are 238 criminal syndicates operating in the country and across its borders. |
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They have also been accused of abusing their power to settle old grudges, and even colluding with competing criminal syndicates. |
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Rarely are companies alleged to have leased or sold criminal syndicates their firearms. |
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This would create opportunities for Irish syndicates and consortiums. |
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The crown leased the collection of customs and excise duties to syndicates of tax farmers, who paid a cash advance and often an interest free loan as security to the king. |
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The 325 square metre prime retail investment is likely to prove attractive to institutions, syndicates and private investors because of its location. |
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These gangs embraced human smuggling, initially by working as strongmen for sophisticated international syndicates. |
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Numerous organized crime syndicates are heavily into credit card fraud in the province. |
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Interstellar crime syndicates, multi-planet economic coalitions, and fleets of spacefaring nomads are plentiful and varied. |
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News organisations now rely on a shrinking number of sources in Iraq, including the news syndicates and wire services that have local bureaux operating there all the time. |
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The private security companies did not have the capacity to adequately protect airports, particularly from syndicates targeting drugs, car thefts and cargo heists. |
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They ponder parlays, betting syndicates, how the wise guys operate, why it's so tough to get a big bet down, and how and why the numbers change-ever so elusively. |
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Gambling syndicates, including the triads, began exerting influence over investors, referees, coaches and players. |
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Upon arrival, their documents are often seized, as a result of which they are completely at the mercy of crime syndicates. |
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During the years, syndicates or associations emerged and imposed themselves as owners of these routes. |
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These syndicates concentrated on selling chicory at markets further afield in Belgium, and abroad. |
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There is no specific legislation protecting children from being used or involved in organised crime syndicates. |
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Many of these agents and smugglers have links to organized crime syndicates. |
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The POUM demands the 'calling of a delegated congress of workers' and peasants' syndicates and of soldiers. |
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However, she asked whether any measures had been taken to tackle the organized crime syndicates engaged in trafficking. |
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The npa reportedly explained the decline in yakuza membership as due to the police crackdown on organized crime syndicates. |
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The 270 members of the Chamber of Counselors are selected by local councils, professional organizations, and labor syndicates for nine-year terms. |
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Individual private investors tend to buy either on their own, or in syndicates organised by intermediaries with up to 20 investors in any one deal. |
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The new venture will deliver commercial property investment opportunities in Ireland and abroad to Irish individual, syndicates, intermediaries and advisers. |
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There's a common perception in the West that the only way to become a financially successful cartoonist is to get the newspaper syndicates to pick you up. |
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He argues that the real pirates are the crime syndicates making fake CDs and selling them, but that those who use file sharing are getting all of the attention. |
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Confusion and demoralization have sapped the effectiveness of the police force, and in many instances have led to corruption and the involvement of police in the crime syndicates. |
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These credit facilities have been set up with banking syndicates of between 27 and 47 financial institutions, depending on the particular credit line involved, and counterpart risk therefore appears limited. |
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In some cases, general hands were being employed as scouts and there was suspicion that some of them were involved in the poaching as organised poaching syndicates. |
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It has become increasingly common in the last few decades for horses to be owned by syndicates or partnerships. |
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What we need to do with regard to this is look at severe penalties, specifically against the organized crime syndicates, both nationally and internationally. |
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They note that crime syndicates have learned to adapt their structures and practices in the form of decentralization and relationships that are more short-term. |
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The most highly sought-after will be those who can qualitatively improve the communications, financial transfers and security systems of hose syndicates. |
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The Monitoring Group on Somalia also noted that leading figures in piracy syndicates were responsible for arms embargo violations and recommended that they should be considered for targeted sanctions. |
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In addition to the 31 colleges, the university is made up of over 150 departments, faculties, schools, syndicates and other institutions. |
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Three years later, Jô is now known as 'Mad Dog'. He's an emotionless bully that has reached a very high rank in one the biggest crime syndicates of Shangri-la. |
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On the threshold of the large structure reform, there are great expectations of expansion within building and financing, where private syndicates and the public grant-awarding highway authorities act more closely together. |
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In any nation where transnational criminal groups are extremely powerful, even though the state may have nominal control over its sovereignty, the reality is that criminal syndicates are likely holding the reins. |
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Success stories were provided by several representatives, who highlighted the important role that international cooperation at the law enforcement and judicial levels could play in dismantling drug syndicates. |
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The number of smuggling syndicates has increased and, because the pay-offs are enormous, the operations have become very sophisticated and multinational in scope. |
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Syndicalists advocate a socialist economy based on federated unions or syndicates of workers who own and manage the means of production. |
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The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, who employed Cornelius Vermuyden as engineer. |
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Multinational IPOs may have many syndicates to deal with differing legal requirements in both the issuer's domestic market and other regions. |
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Lloyd's did this compulsively and incestuously, reinsuring itself through its own syndicates. |
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Rhinos are believed to be extinct in Mozambique, but hunters from the country are often armed by transnational crime syndicates to kill rhinos and elephants across the border in South Africa. |
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Many Australian horses are owned by small-timers in the economic sense, either on their own or in syndicates. |
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Discussants noted that transnational crime syndicates and terrorists can intersect and both can fund their illicit activities through illegal means such as human, drug, and weapons trafficking. |
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New roles as coagent in major banking syndicates. |
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Criminal syndicates expanded their operations in the solid and hazardous waste hauling industries in response to the desire of corporations to externalize their responsibilities and minimize their costs in this area. |
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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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Concern was expressed about the aggressive tactics adopted by cocaine-trafficking syndicates in diversifying their trafficking routes and modi operandi. |
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The oil bunkering syndicates are highly international, including not only other West Africans, but also Moroccans, Venezuelans, Lebanese, French and Russians, for example. |
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Furthermore, the report also warns that young migrants regularly fall prey to criminal syndicates of smugglers and traffickers in human beings, leading to gross violations of human rights. |
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To give but one example, vote buying candidates are often financially backed by drug syndicates, gambling lords and strong-arm godfathers who are happy to provide funds in exchange for protection and influence. |
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Terrorist groups and mafia syndicates aside, I find it hard to think of an organisation with which I feel less affiliated. Timo Hannay London SIR – I'm sure we all wish Pope Francis well as he starts his new job. |
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Increasingly run by organised-crime syndicates, these use many of the same routes that have been established for trade in narcotics. China is by no means the only big exporter of counterfeits. |
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For example, the absence of large seizures does not preclude the existence of large syndicates if seizures comprise a small share of the total flow. |
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The Yakuza syndicates are involved in activities ranging from prostitution and drugs to extortion and white-collar crime. |
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Nicholson was chosen to design challenger Shamrock V, and despite the Wall Street Crash, four NYYC syndicates responded to the threat and built a cup contender each. |
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Nevertheless, many of the willing migrants undertake the hazardous travel to their destination country with criminal syndicates specialized in people smuggling. |
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These syndicates arrange everything for the migrants, but at a high price. |
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LifeServ syndicates an interactive direct marketing system that enables companies to deploy branded Vortals directly onto their customers' desktops. |
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The robbers would be likely to contact organised crime syndicates to set up such a large Smurfing operation, giving them a significant cut of the proceeds, he added. |
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