How To Use Contraband In A Sentence

Francisco L. Rojas, a shipowner, contrabandist, and merchant, was not so fortunate. The Philippine Islands
All bags will be scanned by X-ray machines for contraband goods. Times, Sunday Times
I have heard and read that such things as coriander is considered contraband and that Israel will not confirm or deny if an item would be considered contraband. The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many contraband cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States.
The ship and cargo are taken into a port of the captor; the contraband is condemned in a prize court, but the fate of the ship itself varies. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”

The international cocaine trade re-emerged in Colombia in the 1970s, courtesy of a mafia which cut its teeth on contraband whiskey, marijuana and luxury goods.
The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port (Ashdod), and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped toGaza. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
The modern coastguardmen never expect to find such an animal as a smuggler: all contraband business is done by dint of craft and not by daring. The Romance of the Coast
The emphasis on cheesiness in Coeur de Lion and on the 'bad bad' in Minnis seem to me to be wanting to mobilise our ideas of the 'poorly written', the 'formalistic', the 'faux-edgy' as these things themselves are sort of the contraband property of poetry and literature in this time and place. David's comment
Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading contraband items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance.
And they were approach one of these so-called dowels on the concern that there might be some contraband inside. CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007
Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and would therefore know people who were prepared to kill for a fix of snow, or who were prepared to expose the most sacrosanct confidences of friends and inform on them. The 9th Directive
“Information Contraband vede Money Mark incamminarsi per una città satura di colori e piena di manifesti di film: sinuose ragazze schiaffeggiano il cantante lungo il cammino; tizi con spade e macete si fanno strada nella giungla e maestri di arti marziali fanno mostra della loro abilità, mentre Money Mark si fuma una sigaretta come se niente fosse.” No Fat Clips!!! : MONEY MARK – Information Contraband
I conjured up thoughts of a giant steaming bowl of chili, my favorite snickerdoodle cookies hot from the oven, and a huge scalding pot of Mimo's contraband New Guinea peaberry coffee. Perseus Spur
To Pay Smuggling Fines Two of Canada's largest tobacco companies agreed to pay more than one billion Canadian dollars ($980 million) in fines and pledges to antismuggling efforts over the next 10 to 15 years, after pleading guilty to customs charges related to contraband cigarettes and smuggling. Canadian Tobacco Firms
Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag.
However, the needlewomen employed in Marseilles continued to produce quilted goods for sale to other European and New World markets, as well as to French consumers willing to run the risk of buying contraband goods.
In 1728 Spain founded the Caracas Company to combat this contraband and to control exports to Spain from the region.
The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port Ashdod, and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped to Gaza. Boarding a ship in international waters
Spanish lieutenant governors, palms well greased, usually winked at contraband trade, and furs, skins, and trade goods would flow across borders with relative ease.
Finally, the court concluded contraband is dangerous only if there is a substantial probability the item will be used in a manner likely to cause death or serious injury; facilitate an escape or pose a threat to institutional safety or security. NY Court of Appeals
They only allow us to use scanners to search for contraband, not people. Times, Sunday Times
Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
This is because of the challenges involved in trying to move such a large quantity of contraband. Times, Sunday Times
The contraband is lawfully seized and admitted into evidence against the probationer, but unlawfully seized and suppressed in the case against the other person. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
The ability to detect drugs and other unauthorised items will be improved, notably by the provision of a more effective searching procedure to be used where it is reasonably believed that a prisoner is concealing contraband.
Apart from fishery protection duties naval ships carry out a variety of other tasks including search and rescue operations and the inspection of craft suspected of carrying illegal drugs or other contraband.
Secret compartments and a false floor hid the biblical contraband. Times, Sunday Times
A major British meat producer has been accused of shipping contraband lamb to a French company at the centre of the horse contamination scandal. Times, Sunday Times
He said that the military was now shot through with corruption, with officers involved in illegal mining and the smuggling of contraband goods. Times, Sunday Times
The proceeds of the drugs trade or other contraband finance organised crime groups.
Wisconsin upheld a regulation that allowed probation officers to search probationers based on ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe contraband is present.
The contrabandist supplies had been of a very limited nature, and now they were over she suffered a more than common misery of reaction from excess. Despair's Last Journey
Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
Many of the goods she sells are contraband items smuggled in from The Gambia (about 30 kilometers to the south).
With legal imports in 1998 of $15 billion, contraband accounted for 25 percent of all imports.
The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
But like drugs, and alcohol during Prohibition, black-market contraband always provides a means to acquire whatever is the forbidden fruit of the moment.
Buying and selling contraband, falsifying documentation to achieve employment, evading taxes, and paying bribes to public officials are socially accepted behaviors.
Their political power is tied to networks of corruption and contraband.
Secret compartments and a false floor hid the biblical contraband. Times, Sunday Times
He has been charged with attempting to smuggle contraband drugs.
In this case inevitably our small country becomes a base for drug smugglers, arms contrabandists and terrorists of all stripes.
Man can't live in this poor backcountry without some form of contraband. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
On the contrary, the moment a book becomes illegal contraband it is suddenly all the more desirable.
After the outbreak of the First World War, he served successively in the Foreign Office's western, war, and contraband departments.
Knowing Rory, he probably ran a little contraband on the side, but the authorities often turn a blind eye to small scale smuggling.
Chinese junk, to draw up beside the English contrabandist and transfer the cargo in the outer harbor. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
You were with me, and we were busy busting that international contraband gang.
The violence at Ford started after guards attempted to breathalyse inmates for contraband alcohol in the early hours, it is understood. WalesOnline - Home
The ship and cargo are taken into a port of the captor; the contraband is condemned in a prizecourt The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
But the contrabandists were occasionally too adroit for him.
Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and an informant on the side. The 9th Directive
Siendo un importante centro ganadero y minero pero que cobija también actividades como el contrabando y la explotación ilegal, sus altos niveles de pobreza indican que los puneños no son “autónomos” como deberían serlo, por su condición de “Región”. Peru: Puno Leader Seeking Greater Autonomy for Region
The Dutch bought contraband cacao from Caracas producers, and shipped it to Amsterdam, which soon became the main supplier of cacao to Europe, including Spain itself.
Then the _contrabandista_ turned and walked sharply across the cavern-like chamber to overtake his men, and as he disappeared, distant but sharp and echoing _rap, rap, rap_, came the reports of firearms, and Punch looked sharply at his companion. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
Although the gangs were predominantly comprised of labourers or artisans, who regarded the practice as a legitimate part of the local economy, the contraband reached all sections of society.
Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region.
Other government figures said the dispatch of soldiers to the border was to curb contraband traffic in the region.
It upheld the wounded snake, 'anaconda' system, it opposed the using of contrabands in any way, it urged, heart and soul, the protection of the property of rebels, it warred on confiscation in any form, it was ready with a negative to every proposition to energetically push the war, and finally its press is now opposing the settling our soldiers on the cotton-lands of the South. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
If any contraband is discovered to be in your possession, you will be subject to a minimum $1,000.00 fine. Worst Apartment Rental Ad Ever - The Consumerist
Her cargo was s'posed to be dry goods, provisions an 'lumber, but dere was a good deal more aboard her, guns, powder an' what they call contraband, ef you know jes 'what that is. Plotting in Pirate Seas
In The Paradine Case, when the well-bred Mrs. Paradine enters prison, a stern-looking matron unpins the unfortunate lady's hair and runs her fingers through it (looking for contraband, apparently).
The panel's chairman Jonathan Samet , a professor at the University of Southern California who has studied smoking-related health issues, said the panel couldn't conduct an analysis on contraband and concluded that FDA would need to do so. FDA Panel Criticizes Menthol Cigarettes
He took up with a girl who, as well as carnal favours, supplied him with rationed beer and contraband Craven As.
Toni which the contrabandist seemed to think no more about. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
Hire cars are increasingly being used by criminal gangs to ferry contraband around the country and commit armed robberies, senior police officers have confirmed. Times, Sunday Times
Goya shows them sitting on rocks under a bare tree, cutting plugs of contraband tobacco, with a coil of rope on the ground, handy for tying up victims.
The frisk is a quick search of an individual for weapons, evidence, or contraband. FM 7-98 Appendix C - Operations and Techniques
International law has not precisely defined all classes of goods that are contraband of war per se.
He is a passer of contraband, someone who leads a double life.
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.
[C] ustoms authorities in Piraeus seized two containers containing some 800,000 packs of contraband cigarettes ... Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives
By degrees the dwellings became filled with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity. The Alhambra
Although I may agree that criminalizing alcohol was ridiculous, I cannot sanction the support that people gave criminal enterprises through their contraband purchases.
This lust for profit means they will trade in anything that makes money: drugs, contraband goods, even illegal immigrants.
Last year customs launched a three-year £209 million strategy to tackle tobacco smuggling, but with a flood of contraband cigarettes still easily available, some vendors feel more must be done.
We will take the fight to all those involved in piracy and contraband trafficking.
Our Dutch friend Gist was, correctly speaking, a contrabandist. Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41
The contraband and stolen property was piled in assorted heaps on the back veranda of the bungalow. Chapter 21
An initial contingent of 300 forest rangers is being sent into the woods, to be deployed along the country's borders, particularly with Pakistan, where most of the contraband timber is sold.
As the search team finds contraband, evidence, or illegal weapons, they will evacuate each item to the detention/collection team, which should locate somewhere near the entry point.
The adventurous contraband trade which prevails throughout these mountain regions, and along the maritime borders of Andalusia, is doubtless at the bottom of this galliard character. The Alhambra
By degrees the dwellings became filled up with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge from whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
Lincoln also was the first Commander-in-Chief to declare medicines contraband of war.
A few months later I found out that my mother had been killed by Red Rocks during a contraband raid of the flophouse she had been calling her office.
I thought it might have been gold or contraband of some kind in relation to this matter.
At a frontier, one's personal belongings are subject to scrutiny, one's suitcases opened and searched for contraband, and one's passport examined to ensure that one's credentials are in order, and all this is done by a customs officer.
Under the compromise, the resolution says the Security Council "calls upon" -- instead of the earlier "authorizes" -- all U.N. nations to inspect the ships for nuclear-related material and other contraband, with the consent of the vessel's flag state. Pyongyang Will Build Weapons, Defy U.N.
The commodity most recently sought to be brought into the list as contraband is coal. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
Mohammad Al Rahhal picked up the contraband gyno-goods at his local post office in Egypt: it had been opened by various puzzled customs and postal employees who, at a loss, defined the product in writing as "containing an unknown red liquid" - and awaited my description. Boing Boing
The cubbyhole was hanging open and so was the ashtray, neither of which I ever use unless I am transporting contraband.
It may be imagined that Mr. Stacpoole declined to receive oilcake as if it were "potheen" or other contraband, and at once closed his account with the firm in question. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Council, that all vessels under a neutral or friendly flag, being neutral or friendly property, shall be permitted to import into any port or place in Her Majesty's dominions all goods and merchandize whatsoever, to whomsoever the same may belong, [217] and to export from any port or place in her Majesty's dominions to any port not blockaded, any cargo or goods, not being contraband of war, or not requiring a special permission, to _whomsoever the same may belong_. The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
Steer clear of anything containing black coral or tortoiseshell; both materials are contraband and you won't get them through customs at home.
Those kids were notorious for being trouble with a capital T, and until everybody learned their own techniques of contraband procurement, the parochial schoolers were it.
The tip-off led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette importation racket and a large quantity of contraband was seized.
Her rum and brandy will be contraband bought from sea smugglers.
On the reserve, trying to get a retailer's take on the switch to cheap contraband smokes was tantamount to being spotted as a narc.
In the absence of a reasonable or founded suspicion that a person in custody is concealing weapons or contraband, a person in custody on a misdemeanor or other minor offense has a constitutional right to be free from warrantless strip searches (see People v Kelley, 306 AD2d 699, 700 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 598 [2004]; People v Jennings, 297 AD2d 644 [2002]). First Department
Once we returned to base camp, we handed any contraband or detainees over to the S2 and debriefed our soldiers, especially those on the assault force.
He strongly denied any links to the contraband goods. Times, Sunday Times
I have researched contraband caviar in Azerbaijan, in Astrakhan, and Moscow and have seen the toll it took on depleting fish stocks.
With caves, coves and beaches round the island, there was many a hiding place for smugglers, and contraband was a way of life on Portland - with even the man employed by the government to put a stop to the practice deeply involved.
Council, that all vessels under a neutral or friendly flag, being neutral or friendly property, shall be permitted to import into any port or place in Her Majesty's dominions all goods and merchandize whatsoever, to whomsoever the same may belong, [217] and to export from any port or place in her Majesty's dominions to any port not blockaded, any cargo or goods, not being contraband of war, or not requiring a special permission, to _whomsoever the same may belong_. The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
‘I'm convinced that such illegal activities will cease as soon as the police arrest the contraband mafia bosses,’ she said.
He suggested that they be sent back to Africa, an idea which the contrabandists fiercely rejected.
Today's street vendors hawk pirated DVD movies and contraband toys and clothing from China.
Secret compartments and a false floor hid the biblical contraband. Times, Sunday Times
Wisconsin upheld a regulation that allowed probation officers to search probationers based on ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe contraband is present.
Speaking as a foreign national, in this post 911 world I find it hard enough to get into the US with a valid green card, and am always rather nervous about accidentally bringing fruit or suchlike contraband into the country.
Meanwhile, the military government looked the other way as the merchants and contrabandists made thousands.
So cooperative are some guards that they will warn prisoners if there is going to be a search of the cells, so the inmates can hide contraband items like weapons, cellular phones and pornographic VCDs.
There is no doubt that without the dogs some of that contraband would go on down the road.
It is thought this could take anywhere between three and 10 days to complete given the size of the ship and its cargo, which is perfect for hiding contraband.
She was the sister of the venturesome contrabandist William.
A Chinese fishing boat disguised as a Taiwanese vessel was intercepted off the coast early yesterday while it was attempting to smuggle a large amount of contraband cigarettes to Taiwan.
Members - collectively called Pathans - guard a fierce independence where guns, drugs and contraband are a way of life.
Smuggling is not a small phenomenon: we have estimated that, globally, a third of legal cigarette exports disappear into the contraband market.
The price differential is now €1.14 per litre in the North against 79 cent in the Republic, making for a lucrative contraband market.
In the course of the afternoon we visited several houses, at one of which quite a quantity of contraband stuff was found, _which was placed in our canteens_. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
We will take the fight to all those involved in piracy and contraband trafficking.
It survived on contraband and piracy, trading cattle, hides, sugar, tobacco, and foodstuffs directly with other nations.
Membership has instead arguably contributed to a growth in the shadow economy, and most notably, contraband, due to tax harmonization.
He added that trained police dogs have long been a presence in Army prisons, where they are used for sniffing out narcotics and other contraband among the prisoners, and, occasionally, for riot control.
There will increasingly be times when, encountering terrorists, contraband smugglers, or others who are seeking to breach the law, customs officers will find themselves having to deal with this threat alone.
The intent, apparently, was to patrol an area that was known for contraband trafficking, but it was an undocumented mission.
More importantly, they want control of the contraband trade in drugs and arms in the area.
Man can't live in this poor backcountry without some form of contraband. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
Many contraband items such as drugs are smuggled in without being declared even though it is common knowledge that the drugs trade exists.
Those people were processed to make sure they had no weapons, no illicit dugs, no alcohol, no contraband, and then they were escorted back into the building.
Seizures in Scotland have shown that the Russian mafia disguise their contraband goods by hiding them in tons of scrap metal and rags inside container lorries.
In the last days of the struggle, police rode roughshod over the satyagrahis who refused to part with the contraband salt.
Together we melted into the nearby maize field to devour our ill-gotten contraband.
They will search every compartment and void looking for contraband, weapons… anything that is not supposed to be there.
He carries concealed contraband, which he sneaks into the country in order to avoid inspection by the U.S. Customs Service.
The Thudialur police limits abutting the neighbouring Kerala border was always a headache for Coimbatore Rural Police in preventing the inflow of illicitly distilled arrack and contraband like ganja and other narcotic substances.
Cuando llegó el buque á La Coruña había un sinnúmero de guardias aduaneras alerta, pues se decía que llevaba muchos géneros de contrabando. Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
At this juncture came the famous blockade runner, the Arkadi, a most successful contrabandist of the American war, and at every trip she made she carried away a number of women and children. The Autobiography of a Journalist
The one good thing in her life is her tenure as the reigning queen of Lake Charles, Louisiana's Contraband Days festival, an exalted title bequeathed to her by her late mother that entitles her to wear the tiara made by her great-times-four grandfather. Archive 2007-11-01
When shiploads of contraband disembarked at Mississippi River towns, they were often outnumbered by the employers who anxiously awaited them.
If they catch me, I'll flee across the Mexican border with my truckload of contraband.
Federal officials running the contraband camps were instructed, “Among the things to be done, to fit the freed people for a life of happiness and usefulness, it was obvious that the inculcation of right principles and practices in regard to the social relations ought to find a place.” A Renegade History of the United States
You need to discuss your rights to living in an environment free of contraband and illegal activity, your right to privacy, and the need for a fair and sanctioned visitation policy.
Goya shows them sitting on rocks under a bare tree, cutting plugs of contraband tobacco, with a coil of rope on the ground, handy for tying up victims.
‘If his business is clean, we can dismiss the usual explanations of narcotics, contraband or human trafficking,’ he said.
Inside the closet behind the geyser was the perfect place for storing our contraband. Chapter 9 - Getting Out
The contraband at park headquarters has a market value totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The only question is whether probable cause exists that somewhere on the property some evidence of the crime, contraband, instrumentality, or a fruit of the crime will be discovered.
In addition to signing mutual agreements the leaders discussed drafting policies to battle contraband trade and drug trafficking along the border.
The interdiction was the first in the Western Caribbean; according to the Coast Guard, submarines are regularly used to move contraband in the Eastern Pacific. ABC News: Top Stories
Secret compartments and a false floor hid the biblical contraband. Times, Sunday Times
Warden replied that forfeiture ‘typically extends to the proceeds of some crime or contraband.’
The “natural” state is for infections to kill, the clearsighted to be preferred, and guys on weekend trips to the Dominican to make do without big bags of contraband pills. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Constitution in Exile, Take 2:
They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents.
Three years on, it has become the centre for trade in contraband and counterfeit goods.
he claimed to have purchased the contraband innocently
Smugglers and drug traffickers will find it even harder to sneak in contraband goods.
Whether it was his disastrous first confession, the use of his hobby telescope to take in the bronzed Mrs. Selahowski sunbathing next door, the purloined swigs of sacramental wine, or, as he got older, the fumbled attempts to sneak contraband past his father and score with girls beneath his mother's vigilant radar, John was figuring out that the faith and fervor that came so effortlessly to his parents somehow had eluded him. The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan: Book summary
He has been asked to explain his company's alleged complicity in the contraband cigarette trade.
The sandals were contraband because, modish though they were at the time, bare feet have no place on corporate shagpile. Times, Sunday Times
Then another search in Ashdod won’t find any contraband and the aid will be transferred, in its entirety, toGaza. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port Ashdod, and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped to Gaza. Boarding a ship in international waters
The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port Ashdod, and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped toGaza. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
We are led from the huddled camp of contrabands in 1868 to the allied armies in 1918; from a crowd of men and women without a past and seemingly without a future -- even a possibility only to the eyes of patriotism and faith -- we are led in these pages to the ranks of efficient soldiers and brilliant officers fighting with southern men whose grandfathers called their grandfathers slaves! The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
It means that if a policeman tries to use illegally obtained contraband as evidence to charge a suspect, the court will readily strike down such illicit evidence.
But 90 per cent of those polled also backed random searches for contraband - and educational authorities are making moves to ‘get tough in the war on drugs’.
This amount would be equal to that received from the transit and contraband of all merchandise.
I was offered so many chances to buy contraband cigars I'd have needed extra suitcases to carry them away.
Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
The hero of Ken Loach's new film is Liam, a lairy young lad a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday, caught with his friend Pinball selling contraband fags in a pub, without reference to HM customs and excise.
After all, the woman was standing before her in full male attire, having just overseen a large run of contraband. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
(And, as already noted several times, they were offered to bring the ship to an Israeli port and all non-contraband would be transshipped.) Bored Lawyer (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » Telling Interview with the Director of Amnesty Israel
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.
He keeps his astrogational skills honed by flying contraband from Earth and the Concern planets into Perseus Spur worlds. Perseus Spur
Most were arrested for prostitution, selling contraband cigarettes and working illegally.
The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port (Ashdod), and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped toGaza. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
Massive police raids on contraband markets in Mexico City earlier this year met with resistance from vendors who hurled sticks and stones and trashed vehicles to defend their merchandise.
A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband.
The mastermind of a massive smuggling operation to flood Yorkshire with millions of contraband cigarettes has been jailed for four years.
Vendors were contacted through social networks, family, and friends as well as common knowledge of people and places, particularly pubs where contraband was available.
Sooth to say, the first interview with the uncompromising contraband who hakes you _is_ a trial, and it is bitterly cold work for feet and fingers, when you first come into your "blind" under the early dawn; but the blood soon warms up as the warning cries from the markers become more frequent; the pulse quickens as the dark specks or lines loom nearer, defined against the dull red or silvery gray of the sky-line; chills and shivers are all forgotten, as your first "red-head," pioneer of a whole "skeen" from the river -- crashes down yards behind you, on the hard, wet sand that fringes the bay. Border and Bastille
On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
Their assignment is to inspect the vast underbelly of a Greek freighter anchored in New York Bay for possible signs of contraband.
Its key characteristic is not cross border shopping and bootlegging but large scale fraud in which millions of cigarettes evade duty and appear on the contraband market.

How To Use Contraband In A Sentence

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