How To Use Mafia In A Sentence

Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia? Critical Mass
There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia.
Seven police officials, including a police inspector and a subinspector, have already been arrested for their links to Goa's notorious narcotics mafia over the last two months. Zee News : India National
Go3 has a portfolio of successful English games such as the hit title Mafia corruption, as well as numerous applications on the iPhone and over the Facebook network. Qwaider Planet
It was also the scene of murders: mafia henchmen allegedly threw unfortunates who couldn't pay their debts from the seven-floor building.

But there is a risk of giving far more coverage to former criminals than to the victims of Italy's mafia clans. Times, Sunday Times
A few months ago, the cops busted an illegal numbers operation - the local Mafia's preferred racket these days - a few miles up the street from Vesuvio's.
Santapaola allegedly headed the armed wing of the Mafia.
He owed money to the Russian mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Sandalwood mafias thrive due to the political patronage.
He was the victim of a mafia hit.
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.
Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
Then she directed her attention towards the Russian mafia, which she said had infiltrated some 300 Swiss companies and were using Switzerland as a piggy bank to launder money.
One of the Marriage Mafia's favorite sources of the claim that marriage civilizes men is a book by Steven Nock, Marriage in Men's Lives. Bella DePaulo: Is Marriage a Barbarian-Adoption Program?
We went counterclockwise around the island, along the EU-funded autostrada, to the southwest, through traditional mafia country.
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It's no wonder the local Harlem crime lord calls on him when his daughter is kidnapped by the Mafia.
You know much about the history of the Mafia in this quaint town of yours? Times, Sunday Times
More recently, the Mafia had developed a legitimate claim on him. CHAMELEON
Everybody pays protection money to the mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Needless to say, movies that depict the Italian mafia in the U. S. A. are choc-a-bloc with mafia lingo.
In fact, he has stood trial from 1993 on charges of corruption and membership of the Mafia.
In an area held tightly in the grip of what he called a "logging mafia," Rakotoarisoa said 100 members of the security forces were brought from the capital city to help with surveillance and to avoid any further corruption. Madagascar Moves to Protect Precious Forests
Seven hitmen barge into an apartment used by a top Indian mafia boss.
IMHO, the USA will be eaten from the inside out (big business mafia games). Think Progress » Right-wing Saudi dynasty endorses right-wing Fox News dynasty.
After that he disappeared again, displaced by a parade of Mafia bagmen and enforcers, clearly thrilled by the opportunity to refresh their faded notoriety.
In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
Italian police say they've arrested a mafia boss in the Puglia region of southern Italy.
And a venture to build a fish farm in the central Asia republic was scuppered when local mafia bosses stole his fish. The Sun
But responsibility should be calibrated on a scale, and this is not a Mafia hit case, this not the kind of premeditation or motivated killing. CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2001
The added plus is that you live in a Mafia neighborhood like Bayridge, Brooklyn, you're supersafe. "You have a trifecta — gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey — wedded in the popular American imagination."
Because of all the financial interests at stake, the sport is turning into a mafia.
With the storyline of the film revolving round the nexus between drug mafia and underworld dons, the mood of the film is certainly reflected in the music, it has been claimed.
He had read an article about the Russian Mafia in Brighton Beach, New York. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Denial of the Mafia's existence is nothing new.
This is as good, or bad, as the Mafia taking out a ‘contract’ on the head of a targeted rival amongst the dons.
If anything justifies the resistance, it is finding out that the people trying to run your country are little better than Mafia dons.
They may have the Himalayas in all their splendour laid out before them, walks in pine-scented forests, lakes of a blue you can die for, wild flowers that would make mafia dons go gaga, and what is it that they demand?
What do people think about a Government that lets mafia criminals wander around free while jailing poor people for theft?
Santapaola allegedly headed the armed wing of the Mafia.
Khan says that the mafia has not only encroached the land by keeping articles of his bidi and cigarette shop but also has done some pucka construction work.
Whether you follow this rule as one of the success tips from Abraham Lincoln or one of the mafia tips from Al Capone, doing so will only leverage your credibility in the public's eye.
I pushed it onto the floor and whacked it (both in the literal and in the Mafia sense) with a piece of cardboard.
Their heroes are rappers and members of violent gangs such as the Young Americans, the Mafia, the Firm, and Hard Livings.
Like me, one class member once romped across L.A. County, fearful that she was going to be killed, though she feared the Mafia, not the CIA or FBI, as I did. Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else
And due to its popularity with mafia types (part of the Godfather was filmed here), besides a few hoodlums in concrete slippers, one-time teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa is supposedly in there too.
They look like mafia hoods and molls - all grey hair, badly fitting dark suits and chin stubble.
And then for the easy bit - he samples the results with the local mafia! The Sun
That's what the Mafia do to people who break the omerta vow of silence. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
He does not disappear alone for two weeks to meet the Russian mafia in the name of research. Times, Sunday Times
Bajarangadala�s sandal mafia leader Mahendrakumar shouting arrogantly after completing dacoity to take stringent action on us without any investigation. Some press releases of the CPI(Maoist) Karnataka State Committee
Others allege that Russia and its intelligence agencies use mafia bosses to conduct criminal operations. Times, Sunday Times
Some fascinating comparisons are achieved by juxtaposing the liberty and exclusivity of the traditions of the synagogue with those of the illegal trade of the mafia.
He is said to have claimed that he was being pursued by the Russian mafia. Times, Sunday Times
And it makes me feel, in a way -- and this is, I think, the disturbing part -- as if we are drug dealers or terrorists trying to traffic in information, and should we be using bags full of quarters like old Mafia capos to avoid having our phone calls traced? CNN Transcript May 21, 2006
As Don Tino's niece her Mafia connection had assured the success of her café. THE KEYS OF HELL
A cabinet minister came under investigation for links to the Mafia.
Mafia "pentito," or mobster-turned-witness, Gaspare Spatuzza told a court in Turin that a Mafia clan leader later jailed for the attacks had named Mr. Berlusconi, who had not entered politics at the time, in connection with the bombings. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters.
Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.
The p2p thing is global, which is why the MAFIAA have to keep doing what amount to piddly little trials (and trust me, in the grand scheme of things, trying four guys is piddly). The Pirate Bay decision means … nothing
The Kahn family were a sort of mafia family, in charge of organized crime and such.
It looks to Bob like the pizza Mafia is out to get him, but the pizza parlors are victims too.
If all else fails, the mafia hijack transports of cigarettes and alcohol and then ship the stolen goods into Britain.
He speaks with rage of insinuations that there's a "gay mafia" in Hollywood.
Rarely, if ever, has a Vatican official used the word "omerta" - a serious accusation in Italian -- to compare the reluctance of some in the Church to come clean on the abuse scandal with the Mafia's code of silence. Reuters: Top News
Hopefully being known as ‘Fast’ Eddie DeSoto will enable a swift rise up the greasy Mafia pole. reasons to be cheerful
Non-governmental agencies should play a key role in working against forest mafias.
Their gang, The Firm, established a Mafia-style grip on the city's criminal underworld in the 1960s, specialising in protection and extortion rackets.
Denial of the Mafia's existence is nothing new.
Police questioned suspected members of the local mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Another reason for the mafia's apparent decline is the death of "omerta" -- the code of silence. ABC News: Top Stories
During World War II, the Italian fascist government severely repressed the local mafia forces which were formed earlier by the gabbellotti, or caretakers of the estates for absentee landlords.
I'd like to tell you some of the good things the Mafia is doing," Dean Martin drawled one opening night at the Mob-run Sands, pausing to wait for the half-shocked, half-delighted laughter to build. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme
Tupac Amaru, which at its peak numbered about 1, 000 fighters, soon branched out into Mafiastyle crime.
Everybody pays protection money to the mafia. Times, Sunday Times
The money was collected nightly by Mafia bagmen, their suitcases bulging with huge quantities of disappearing cash.
Mr. Gilmartin jibbed and commented that the demand made the Mafia look like monks.
The job the crew carries out is the audacious theft of a mafia safe full of gold they just about get away with, after a fairly thrilling chase through the canals of Venice.
(Come on Italy!) party with which Berlusconi burst onto the political scene in 1994 had previously had links with Cosa Nostra, the original Mafia. Silvio Berlusconi ally had no Mafia links after 1992, court rules
Only a third-rate mafia would resort to such pig-headed tactics
The mafia hung a funeral wreath on the front door of City Hall with the police chief's name on it and saying "this wreath is for you if you don't resign. Violence in Mexico
The sea around Mafia is a tropical Marine Park ranging from coral reefs, sea-grass beds, mangroves and inter-tidal flats.
Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
Only the little people pay taxes.; and Al Capone, mafia hitman, bootlegger and perhaps the most famous tax evader of all time, served his longest sentence, seven years, for tax evasion. Elizabeth Lynch: Ai Weiwei: Artist, Dissident and ... Tax Evader?
The gang had been feuding with the Mexican Mafia over who would collect the ‘rent,’ or rake-off of illegal profits from the hustlers near MacArthur Park who trafficked in fake papers for undocumented immigrants.
There was also the small matter of visits from the local mafia. Times, Sunday Times
He is said to have claimed that he was being pursued by the Russian mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Sylvia adds that Michele Zagaria is the head of one of the bloodiest clans of the Neapolitan mafia called the Camorra and they've been involved in an enormous number of illegal activity. News
Large-scale embezzlement required experienced helpers, so criminal cooperatives appeared that tended to develop into so-called mafias.
(ANSA) - Rome, September 26 - A Facebook group inviting young people to join the Camorra is the latest mafia fan club to pop up on the popular social networking site, web observers said Monday. Gates of Vienna
The trio embark on an operation that involves the Mafia, corrupt politicians and various romantic entanglements. The Sun
The scene was reminiscent of the Mafia godfather who goes to confession on Sunday before returning to his normal criminal activities on Monday.
I find it particularly galling because, in this country, we have had to suffer pretty near total purgatory at the hands of our various enforcement agencies who seem to start from the premise that we are all members of that same Mafia clan.
He was serving 20 years for mafia association and arms and drugs trafficking. Times, Sunday Times
There was also the small matter of visits from the local mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Everybody pays protection money to the mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Police questioned suspected members of the local mafia. Times, Sunday Times
Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.
phone hacking, Tom Watson MP asked James Murdoch whether he was familiar with the mafia term 'omerta' - commonly defined as a "code of silence". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds.
Both book and film stripped the glamour from the mafia and revealed its protagonists for what they were: ruthless, banal, sociopathic thugs far removed from elegant, Godfatherly sophistication and singing in a very different choir from the Sopranos. Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano – Review
The mafia often plays the role of middleman in these situations, facilitating transactions between businessmen and corrupt government officials.
It would be surprising were the Mafia not to have muscled in.
The only diff between insurance CEOs and Mafia dons is … well, actually, there’s no diff. Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 4, 2010
You gotta remember that Dick Cheney, who is still one of the top "capos" in America's economic mafia, has been America's self-anointed assassination king for the last eight years The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
And a venture to build a fish farm in the central Asia republic was scuppered when local mafia bosses stole his fish. The Sun
And then for the easy bit - he samples the results with the local mafia! The Sun
Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
Any attempt by the Labour mafia to intrude a political crony or some ‘socially inclusive’ candidate into the specialist, highly sophisticated milieu of the National Galleries would be an outrage.
The leaning tower was reportedly one of the targets of a string of bombings carried out by the Sicilian Mafia in 1993 though it was not hit.
The dispute almost triggered a clash between rival mafia clans, it is alleged. Times, Sunday Times
It's a ‘sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons’ tale about the privileged scions of a group of Mafia dons who find it impossible to make it in the straight world of New York by virtue of their last names.
In 1890, the police chief in New Orleans was killed and that was the first time on record that the word 'mafia' was used. Ellen Sterling: Las Vegas' New Mob Museum Tells An All-American Story
But still, the man could sing like nobody else, even if he did have a tasty little part-time job as a Mafia bagman.
National leadership and more pervasive international co-operation will also be essential in order to keep mafia and piracy practices from resurging.
Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly eluding law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of 21st century America.
That said, we have found no evidence of any 'Mafia' involvement in corrupting the integrity of tennis," the review said. Tennis betting panel to review 45 matches
He is the Mafia's honorary president: entitled to advise and consult but not to give orders.
He told the tribunal under oath that the Mafia, also known as Cosa Nostra, controls a major section of Quebec's construction industry. CBC | Top Stories News
Instead, like a mafia don in a witness protection program, he will have to leave his current life and construct a brand new one.
The Mafia ordered the killing.
It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal.
Back in New York, Tony Sirico, he plays Paulie Walnuts, a Sopranos family capo who's in trouble with Russian Mafia.
Cyanide is a colourless, lethal, water-soluble poison occasionally used by mafia assassins.
There was also the small matter of visits from the local mafia. Times, Sunday Times
He does not disappear alone for two weeks to meet the Russian mafia in the name of research. Times, Sunday Times
Such music fests do not exist outside of a parasitic capitalist and Mafia-styled exploitive capitalist paradigm that is financed by the American government with American tax payer money.
They haven't reckoned with the intervention of the French wine Mafia, who kidnap the kid for nefarious purposes.
The former French foreign legionnaire, who authorities have linked to a Belgrade mafia group, had been on the run for a year.
The Mafia is almost totally expunged in Sicily anyhow – at least publicly. Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
The Feo family are that dying breed of huge mafia families with all the fighting and the stresses of seven very different people living in the same house.
He had read an article about the Russian Mafia in Brighton Beach, New York. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
As Don Tino's niece her Mafia connection had assured the success of her café. THE KEYS OF HELL
Digging up an old Mafia stereotype always struck the fear into them, thought the Don.
Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
The gunman had been hired by a rival Mafia family to do the dirty deed.
The Mafia has relaxed its grip on local businesses.
Barrel or pigeon chests shouldn't wear shawl collars for fear of looking like the aforementioned bird; on the über-broad-chested, a single-breasted suit avoids the mafia vibe; skinny and tall look more pulled-together in double-breasted. The Black and White on Black Tie
If there was a mafia at Clear Ridge High, Shelley was the godfather, the Marlon Brando of mobsters.
She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial.
The Mafia has never had problems about who is in power; it has always tried to cuddle up to those in charge because they are the ones who control the purse strings of public financing.
In an age of increasing virtualism, ( "friends" on Facebook and MySpace, virtual goods in casual games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, avatars that represent a better or different version of yourself) being among real people, experiencing shared emotions in real time is becoming less and less common. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
That's what the Mafia do to people who break the omerta vow of silence. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
In a society with no laws, then a mafia that extorts me (of their own free will) restricts my freedom and any systematic attempt to curtail them becomes a de facto law.
I joined the Bombay mafia, and worked as a gunrunner, a smuggler, and a counterfeiter.
He asked Mr Murdoch if he had heard of the mafia and then asked if he had heard the phrase 'omerta', the mafia code of silence. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
And then for the easy bit - he samples the results with the local mafia! The Sun
Oscar is described as the cool-headed but ruthless younger brother of Chicago Mafia boss Bruno Bianchi, who was murdered in the first episode during an altercation with Bunny Maureen Amber Heard. Titanic Actor To Terrorize The Playboy Club
Several local officials are in jail on charges of colluding with the Mafia.
Reports of mafia links to local Italian businesses can be very damaging '. Times, Sunday Times
Since the 19th century, Mafia islanders have depended upon copra, or dried coconut, as their primary export to world markets.
What can be stated confidently is that no credible evidence exists which can tie the Kennedys (nor, for that matter, the Mafia) into a murder plot. GreenCine Daily: Sunday shorts.
The local Mafia won't touch gambling
In this Golden Age, the heroes were neither cops nor outlaws, doctors nor housekeepers, ranch-owners nor lawyers, spies nor mafia hoods.
He used his Mafia links to blackmail politicians and build his influence.
I'm not the Russian mafia. The Sun
His FBI handlers allegedly turned a blind eye to his activities as they were more interested in those of the east coast Italian Mafia.
Anybody that lives in this cold city can tell you that ‘gang-land’ means mafia; Italian mob, hit men, wise guys, and Marlin Brando.
Many speakers belonged to Europe's familiar interfaith mafia, who itinerate between well-funded international conferences. Philip Jenkins: Looking For A Few Good Muslims
These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit. Propeller Most Popular Stories
The gunman had been hired by a rival Mafia family to do the dirty deed.
Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.
By night, the cafes and tea houses are no strangers to drug-dealers and mafia from the Maghreb.
The Neapolitan Mafia -- known as Camorra -- is a group of roughly 100 battling clans Undefined
You know much about the history of the Mafia in this quaint town of yours? Times, Sunday Times
But there is a risk of giving far more coverage to former criminals than to the victims of Italy's mafia clans. Times, Sunday Times
Charges of corruption, Mafia collusion and bribery seem not to have dented his appeal.
To say as Howard has that Timbaland and Simmons are part not part of the hip hop culture that traffics in misogyny is like saying that John Gotti was not a part of the mafia culture that trafficked in heroin. Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias Smack Down: Politicians Love Hip-Hop
In fact, it is proven that a complete step-by-step guide is the perfect way to see amazing success in Mafia Wars. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 641
But there is always a sense of foreboding on such occasions because of the secretive, mafia-like management by a cabal of political operators.
The town hall mafia will prevent this plan going through.
While we're caught up with the mafia, so is the protagonist, who starts off as a down on his luck taxi cab driver.
That's what the Mafia do to people who break the omerta vow of silence. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
“They believe on the whole in individualism rather than tribalism, national patriotism rather than ethnic loyalty, meritocracy rather than nepotism, nuclear families rather than extended clans, law and fair play rather than privilege, corporations of strangers rather than mafias of relatives, and true love rather than the arranged marriages necessary to keep ethnic categories clear-cut.” The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
He felt he was being punished for exposing the links between the business world, the Mafia, the secret Masonic lodges and the secret services.
He is the Mafia's honorary president: entitled to advise and consult but not to give orders.
He has cast one local politician as a member of the Mafia and another as his moll.
What better way than to bring to heel the EuroMafia of Clarke, Patten, Hurd and Heseltine whose snidey anti-referendum comments are wheeled out against the Conservatives by the BBC every time any of them tries to make the case for a referendum. Referendum News
But on Wednesday the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of minors, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, said hiding behind a culture of "omerta" - the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence - would be deadly for the Church. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Elsewhere, I read that investigators in Sicily believed the mafia is behind an unexpected rise in cases of the animal disease brucellosis among humans.
Thieves rob the Mafia, killing three mobsters and two cops in the process.
The proclamation from the four Republicans came in advance of a book, entitled "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America," which includes a forward by Myrick. Congressional Republicans Call For "Witch Hunt" Aimed At American Muslims
Mafia "pentito", or mobster-turned-witness, Gaspare Spatuzza told a court in Turin that a Mafia clan leader later jailed for the attacks had named Berlusconi, who had not entered politics at the time, in connection with the bombings. Canada.com Top Stories
That's why mafia godfathers and titans of business don't mind eating with their most trusted lieutenants in otherwise empty restaurants.
As for the allegation about dining with a Russian money launderer, the attorney denied the claim and said that just because Prince Albert "has Russian friends doesn't mean that he is close to the mafia. Monaco Prince, Blogger Trade Charges
Played a hotshot new lawyer who finds the firm he joins is linked to the Mafia. The Sun
The name Pink Hill Mafia is itself a playful reflection of what its members consider their ubiquity throughout the Hill. To foster connections, gay congressional staffers think Pink Hill Mafia
He treats the establishment as a disreputable mafia rather than an exclusive coterie. Times, Sunday Times
As the millennium approached, the Mafia was no longer the nationally recognized and ordered threat it once was.
Or will the 40-year economic blockade be maintained simply to satisfy the second-generation Miami mafia?
UF study first to document evidence of 'mafia' behavior in cowbirds Science Press Releases
They have joined erstwhile political masters and mafia men to mulct the state.
The term mafia has been used to describe exactly this effect before, especially when it comes to PayPal and now Forbes.com: News
Karimov ordered the "Pardon" because of his alliance with Usmanov's mentor, Uzbek mafia boss and major international heroin overlord Gafur Rakimov. Archive 2007-09-23
With riots in Paris, but not as big as last year, the real news focus shifts to Naples, where Prodi is considering sending in the Army to restore order after a bloody, Mafia-related crime spree has claimed seven lives since Friday. It died of boredom
The dispute almost triggered a clash between rival mafia clans, it is alleged. Times, Sunday Times
The city is being given to the despoilers, speculators, land mafia and vandals.
Others allege that Russia and its intelligence agencies use mafia bosses to conduct criminal operations. Times, Sunday Times

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