How To Use Smuggling In A Sentence

So long as there is a demand for the produce, illegal excavations and the smuggling of antiquities will continue.
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
On Friday Hall faces trial on charges of smuggling drugs. Times, Sunday Times
He said that he had bought it for 20 euros to use as a doorstop or ornament, but the authorities said it was marble and accused him of smuggling antiquities.
Two British flyers are awaiting trial on smuggling charges. Times, Sunday Times

In reality, she was a former drug addict who spent three years behind bars for smuggling drugs into jail. The Sun
Revenue was also busy cracking illegal cigarette and tobacco smuggling.
Illegal logging and timber smuggling influenced the policy and caused price rises for wood domestically.
Some people made a lot of money smuggling refugees, and they were pretty ruthless with anyone they regarded as competition. WALL GAMES
These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States.
Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. Political Resonance
Guerrieri is a defense counselor in Bari, Italy, and he's asked to work on the appeal of a man named Fabio Paolicelli, accused of drug smuggling. Reasonable Doubts -- Gianrico Carofiglio (Trans. Howard Curtis)
His arrest and ultimate acquittal on cocaine smuggling charges made headlines in the mid-1980s.
Agents countered all such efforts aggressively, hiking through the jungles in search of smuggling trails and cultivating local residents as informers.
It is pretty evident that Maoist cadres have been involved into the smuggling cordyceps and other endangered medicinal herbs and regarding this they have also established their own so-called regulative mechanism. Scrutinizing Mr. Yadav's Allegations
Among the revelations were the fact that Ibiza's understaffed customs had not made a single arrest for drug smuggling in two years.
No, let them take some of the money and energy that they use in smuggling explosives into their bowl and use it to bring in food. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Strange Thing About the Controversy Over Jerusalem
To strengthen border security and to combat smuggling, Pakistan is setting up more checkpoints along the border.
Chinese authorities arrest iPad-smuggling 'mules' - Computerworld The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
In the late 1980s, prosecutors spent nearly two years building a case against a geoduck-clam smuggling operation that resulted, Mr. Welch says, in "the largest white-collar fraud case in Northwest history. When Criminals Clam Up
In the middle of the program, he also started demanding kickbacks on the contracts to add to the stream of unmonitored revenue he was already getting from oil smuggling.
First, McConnell openly criticised the Chancellor's decision to force whisky producers to introduce security seals as protection against counterfeits and smuggling.
Even tighter restrictions were imposed on Operation Relex, which interdicted people-smuggling operations on Australia's northern borders.
The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
However, thanks to smuggling, piracy, and trade with the New World, England was able to thwart Napoleon's plan.
Now the governments of the UK and Jamaica are spending £2m on a crackdown on cocaine smuggling.
The General and his cronies are now awaiting trial for drug-smuggling.
Since 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip, Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.
If the economic incentive for smuggling is high enough, nothing will stop it. Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
Hiding a live monkey underneath your blouse and claiming to be pregnant may sound like an amateur attempt at smuggling but American Gypsy Lawson, 29, used that exact method to sneak a drugged rhesus monkey into the US in 2008. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
It's unconscionable for the government to do anything for a man who admits to smuggling 135 tons of cocaine into the United States.
Plundering and raiding, pirating and smuggling were the only ways they could survive in this universe…
Only at the very western end, where the terrain is mountainous, are the old smuggling routes still open. Times, Sunday Times
By some means, and with friendly assistance (perhaps his mother's), he succeeded in smuggling into the garret a spinet, which is a kind of piano. Music Talks with Children
Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading contraband items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance.
They are also actively involved in smuggling and looting high-voltage power cables.
Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear.
Smuggling is an old and honoured profession in every port town I've ever visited. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Smuggling can potentially provide fissile material for nuclear weapons or a wider range of radioactive materials for use in ‘dirty bombs’.
Killing elephants on a large scale and smuggling their tusks long distances is expensive, made worthwhile by the high price for ivory. Times, Sunday Times
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
And I started a smuggling unit to go after coyotes here.
Some countries have ever fiercer antismuggling laws. The Fruit Hunters
Because of Vesper's diligent work and Milo's testimony, Caesare was behind bars facing an airtight case against him for smuggling arms, drugs, and mul - tiple violations of the RICO act. Second Skin
His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
Two British flyers are awaiting trial on smuggling charges. Times, Sunday Times
Drug - smuggling is a serious crime.
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
The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials.
The mandatory detention requirements that took effect this year, a dramatic increase in long-term incarcerated aliens, and the rise in sophisticated smuggling operations have placed unexpected burdens on INS detention capabilities. President Asks Congress For Embassy Security Funding
Of course, when it comes to smuggling things in, the boobhead always has the advantage over the screw.
There's a lot of smuggling across this frontier.
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
How can petite-bodied Philippe Petit, a hyperactive Frenchman with freckles and carrot-top hair, possibly carry a film that does, in fact, involve illegal smuggling, the bypassing of security, and other activities typically confined to scarfaced, tough-guy villains? Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
A prisoner kept an international drug smuggling operation going from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone. Times, Sunday Times
The region is renowned for its lucrative smuggling routes and bitter rivalries with neighbouring tribes. Times, Sunday Times
Rather, the principal smuggling routes appear to be across the Iranian and other southern borders, to the Persian Gulf, where the material might be "warehoused" for a number of years, or privately sold with few questions asked. The Devastation of Iraq's Past
Customs officers will be given powers allowing them to board and detain ships suspected of smuggling migrants. Times, Sunday Times
He faces 15 years' jail for drug smuggling. The Sun
His arrest and ultimate acquittal on cocaine smuggling charges made headlines in the mid-1980s.
Only at the very western end, where the terrain is mountainous, are the old smuggling routes still open. Times, Sunday Times
In reality, she was a former drug addict who spent three years behind bars for smuggling drugs into jail. The Sun
The most natural case to consider, because it avoids complicated issues of constitutional authority and trans-border smuggling, is the one where both the federal government and most or all state government legalize simultaneously. Katherine Waldock: Drug Legalization -- a Windfall for State Budgets
Ivory traders are smuggling tusks and carved artefacts in and out of the country using eBay. Times, Sunday Times
The province is also the transit route for the smuggling of guns, cigarettes, petrol, stolen cars and forged documents.
The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.
The popular imagination may be more comfortable with the notion of smuggling liquor, tobacco or hallucinogenic drugs. Times, Sunday Times
With contributions from retired detectives and reformed criminals, the film offers a grim insight into smuggling, drugs dealing and organised football hooliganism. Times, Sunday Times
Smuggling is inferred from a few of the tails allegedly being undersized and illegal.
The prosecutor wanted a life sentence for smuggling.
In the years after independence, Macedonia launched a clamp-down on cigarette smuggling.
Announcing his government would introduce new minimum and non-parole periods for people-smuggling offences, Mr Abbott said on day one he would call the Nauru President to start talks to re-open the offshore processing centre there. The Age News Headlines
The government has launched a similar crackdown on the Mahdi Army in the southern city of Amara, which is seen as a hub for weapons smuggling by the group. Sadr Looks to Exert Political Power
ACTRESS Amber Heard carefully conceals another pair of puppies in the wake of her dog smuggling disaster. The Sun
The demand for designer dogs has people smuggling hundreds of puppies across the border.
Police believe they are hot on the trail of a drug-smuggling gang .
My diligent inspection of every single isolated bay, every last tottering Spanish tower had been observed by both the customs posts and the hashish smuggling gangs with wry detachment.
We need more effective strategies to tackle the problem of poaching and smuggling, but as to the precise instrumentalities, I will await for the report of the taskforce on tigers which I have set.
He said: 'There is growing evidence the increased smuggling of synthetic drugs is a major factor. The Sun
It was particularly important for the governor to show the delegates his social distance from the Chinese, and indeed the Dutch frequently used landdagen to gain aborigines 'cooperation in the effort to control Chinese smuggling and piracy. How Taiwan Became Chinese
Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction?
Both incidents ‘are the first to come to light in several years involving DPRK officials stationed abroad at embassies caught smuggling narcotics,’ the report said.
We don't really have a problem with maritime smuggling in the UK, the USA does, hence why their Coast Guard, which is really more of a "guard of the coast" than what we associate with the term coastguard here, is a small navy and ours is a small government agency that supplements RNLI and RAF rescue efforts. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
The rampant smuggling once again shows how imperative and urgent it is now to bring domestic fuel prices closer to international levels.
He said that one of the main measures against the criminal groups, whose sources of income included smuggling, was to place security cameras at border checkpoints.
In spite of the usually accepted fact that smuggling can only prosper in secret, Poole became a sort of headquarters for all that considerable trade that found in the nooks and crannies of the Dorset coast safe warehouses and a natural cellarage. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
He said: 'There is growing evidence the increased smuggling of synthetic drugs is a major factor. The Sun
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
He switched on later to the lucrative clandestine trade of felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees.
An air hostess was arrested and charged with drug smuggling.
A foul-tempered doctor arrived and stopped just short of accusing me of smuggling the Black Death into the USA.
The unity government, which is trying to regain control of the capital, has been powerless to stop the smuggling networks. Times, Sunday Times
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
He faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally smuggling arms into India.
It had to be the smuggling, the theft of high-technology, the implications of villainy, even treachery; only then could he move to -- THE LAST RAVEN
Killing elephants on a large scale and smuggling their tusks long distances is expensive, made worthwhile by the high price for ivory. Times, Sunday Times
Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.
Coleus, bougainvillea, snow-on-the-mountain, wandering Jew, violets, agapanthus, Johnny-jump-ups, poor-man's-orchid, spider. They trade cuttings, smuggling them over state lines, to propagate at home.
It was announced then that duty-free shops were allegedly part of smuggling channels, and as duty-free shops do not exist at land borders of EU countries, Bulgaria should also close its duty-free operations.
Ivory traders are smuggling tusks and carved artefacts in and out of the country using eBay. Times, Sunday Times
The provisional suspension of some constitutional guarantees came in response to a spate of murders blamed on the drug trade and turf wars over smuggling routes through Trinidad and Tobago, which is a trans-shipment point for South American cocaine headed to Europe and the United States. Trinidad reports mass arrests in crackdown on crime
Such methods increased the poverty of the people and were a direct incentive to smuggling.
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
The first rule never prevented Mississippi State fans from smuggling in cowbells, but home teams now can be penalized if their fans disrupt play with noisemakers.
He switched on later to the lucrative clandestine trade of felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees.
The IRGC's involvement in smuggling began about the same time, when Rafsanjani established free-trade areas in Kish and Qeshm, two islands across the Gulf from Dubai. Smugglers for the State
Knowing Rory, he probably ran a little contraband on the side, but the authorities often turn a blind eye to small scale smuggling.
ACTRESS Amber Heard carefully conceals another pair of puppies in the wake of her dog smuggling disaster. The Sun
Measures aimed at doubling numbers include making core tiger areas "inviolate", cracking down on poaching and smuggling, making people aware of the importance of tigers, and setting up cross-boundary protected areas where necessary. BBC News - Home
Denver has always been known as major transit point for the smuggling of undocumented immigrants into the U.S.
Therefore claims incurred where, for example, a vessel was being used for drug smuggling would not be covered.
He was arrested in connection with drug smuggling.
Incidents included prison smuggling, burglary 'scoping' exercises and mid-air near misses. The Sun
No military officials were charged, although reports have stated that military ships were used to transport goods for the smuggling ring.
Maurin had already tried to ruin Joseph by helping Cobalt reveal his drug smuggling.
An argument against import duties is an argument in favor of book smuggling? GBB: Really!?! Edition « BAHAY TALINHAGA
He faces 15 years' jail for drug smuggling. The Sun
To make sure the Merry Men did not get new hardware, he cracked down on smuggling and the black market.
In another example, he said that money laundering laws enacted under the criminal code in 1997 were confined to just three criminal offences - the proceeds from drug trafficking, smuggling, and triads.
If I play my cards right, we could close down his drug smuggling, his gunrunning and his people trafficking. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The success of this seizure will send a clear message of determination to stop the smuggling of illegal drugs. Times, Sunday Times
Without free trade — in its sweeter and more innocent maidenhood of smuggling — there never could have been on board that English ship the Victory, a man, unless he were a runagate, with a mind of such laxity as to understand French. Mary Anerley
The encouragement of smuggling was also an offshoot of this co-operation.
The government calls the Tuareg armed bandits and drug runners who want the freedom to operate smuggling operations in the north. ANC Daily News Briefing
Five Brits have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates under suspicion of involvement in an Internet drug smuggling ring.
Publically, the tobacco industry maintains that tax increases are not effective. The industry asserts that smuggling is caused by taxes, and that to combat smuggling, taxes must be reduced.
Smuggling, bribery, protection rackets and the rise of criminal mafias are some of the common symptoms of rigidly controlled economies.
The luggage is well-suited for use by drug traffickers smuggling ecstasy.
It was the largest palm oil smuggling case in the history of Gongbei customs.
The two sides cooperate actively in the field of security and jointly crack down on the "three forces" including the "East Turkistan" and cross-nation crimes such as drug smuggling.
The bill also would give federal agents authority to obtain wiretaps to detect smuggling and document-fraud crimes.
At the core of this discourse is a billion-dollar industry of human smuggling no longer controlled by the "coyote," a term largely reserved for the lone pirate paid by a desperate migrant to navigate the dangerous wasteland between the U.S. and Mexico. Geri Spieler: Moving Millions : How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration
He will propose a whole package of measures against smuggling and money laundering, which will be coordinated with other government institutions.
The pattern of smuggling has changed with the evolution of the revolution into war. Times, Sunday Times
Police believe they are hot on the trail of a drug-smuggling gang .
Perrin maintained that “there are advantages to cooperating with other countries, not just the source countries, but also other countries along the migrant smuggling chain,” because this would assist Canada in “creating proactive responses to protracted refugee situations.” The Ocean Lady: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration in Canada : Law is Cool
Up and Down opens with a couple of hoods smuggling a truckload of Indian refugees into the Czech Republic.
As well as being able to impose military discipline on members, the organisation can raise millions of pounds through robberies, smuggling, extortion, blackmail.
One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home.
The officers also foiled a protected animals smuggling attempt to South Korea, South Africa and Japan.
Smuggling methods are seemingly limited only by a trafficker's imagination.
Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. The Big Over Easy: Summary and book reviews of The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.
Other clandestine links operate, smuggling arms and, according to the police, drugs into Northern Ireland.
The gangster gabbed about bribing a congressman and his opium smuggling business, which along with his other revelations could have put him back in prison. Wild Bill Donovan
He used Ipswich as a base for smuggling, and had so much influence over the bailiffs that they arrested and fined a customs searcher who had caught Debenham smuggling.
Their familiarity with export licensing and their ability to corrupt officials and hide illicit cargo in legal consignments could all assist nuclear smuggling.
The prosecution told the jury the men ran the intercontinental smuggling operation along strict business lines.
Two friends discover romance and excitement when they are drawn into an international drug smuggling plot. The Sun
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
Saleh is referring to the low-priced commodities like snacks and cosmetics that used to flood into the Gaza Strip from Sinai, via an elaborate network of underground smuggling tunnels. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The bill also would give federal agents authority to obtain wiretaps to detect smuggling and document-fraud crimes.
A drugs baron who turned supergrass to implicate his mother, wife, brother, lover and others was jailed for six years yesterday for smuggling £132m of cocaine and cannabis into Britain.
These are in fact unquiet borderlands and are witness to cross-border insurgency, gun-running, narcotics and AIDS, smuggling, money laundering, trafficking in women and illicit immigration.
Lymington sends two members to Parliament, and this and her salt trade is all I can say to her; for though she is very well situated as to the convenience of shipping I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing; which, I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End of From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
In addition to drug trafficking, authorities say, the Zetas are involved in extortion, kidnapping, producing pirated CDs and DVDs, sales of alcohol and migrant smuggling. 13 high school and college students killed at a party in Cd. J�arez
The only money available is through smuggling and banditry.
It was reported in overseas media that some international tobacco firms have actually been engaged in aiding and abetting cigarette smuggling.
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.
In the ruthless trade of people smuggling they will increasingly pay with their lives.
The government intends to clamp down on drug smuggling.
The government calls the Tuareg rebels armed bandits and drug runners who want the freedom to operate smuggling operations in the north. ANC Daily News Briefing
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has reportedly been warned of a big increase in heroin smuggling by his inter-agency drugs action team.
Eight of the nine had previously pleaded guilty to being involved in the dealing of smuggling cigarettes.
The success of this seizure will send a clear message of determination to stop the smuggling of illegal drugs. Times, Sunday Times
The A109s’ role is to interdict high-speed smuggling vessels and they are armed with machine guns.
The military has also been widely accused of involvement in arms running, people smuggling, drugs, illegal logging and extortion rackets.
The unity government, which is trying to regain control of the capital, has been powerless to stop the smuggling networks. Times, Sunday Times
He got the former president's son to confess to his part in a drug-smuggling ring.
Two friends discover romance and excitement when they are drawn into an international drug smuggling plot. The Sun
Coleman beat the state's case against him; which he describes as a trumped up set of charges for smuggling cigarettes into the prison. Salem-News.com
The name of the yacht was not known, only that a marina dockmaster suspected smuggling and, for his trouble, had been brutalized. CORMORANT
Most of the smuggling cases detected previously at border control points had involved lorries instead of coaches.
He was busted for smuggling the stuff in January 2000.
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)
Mooney was sentenced to death by firing squad for his role in smuggling the tea to the North on behalf of Colonel Jackson. Think Progress » Palin On Whether She Will Still Speak At ‘Scammy’ Tea Party Convention: ‘You Betcha!’
The only way to end smuggling is to open the borders to any and all goods. Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition.
The men must be smuggling something, " she said, -and hiding it up Dafydd's 'long, long hole. Working Without a Net
Meanwhile a Briton is being questioned in Holland on suspicion of masterminding a multi-million-pound heroin smuggling ring, police said yesterday.
The new regulation outlines departmental duties, an anti-smuggling assessment and accountability system, whistle-blower rewards and protection, as well as grassroots participation .
The casino was used as a front for cross-border smuggling operations.
Customs officers will be given powers allowing them to board and detain ships suspected of smuggling migrants. Times, Sunday Times
A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.
The bouncers accordingly started a five minute long frisk to ensure that they were not smuggling in any bottles of spirits.
Their quiet neighbour turned out to be a Walter Mitty character, running a huge drug-smuggling business from his garage.
On Friday Hall faces trial on charges of smuggling drugs. Times, Sunday Times
High School power center Brock Nelson recently committed to the University of North Dakota, and the Fighting Sioux can really count this one as a coup in smuggling the emerging star out of state right from under the noses of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Red Line: Dominant start has Canadian Seguin atop draft ranks
THE alleged mastermind behind a gun smuggling plot was yesterday compared to a movie Mr Big. The Sun
We also showed in our earlier studies that tobacco smuggling defies apparent economic logic.
The success of this seizure will send a clear message of determination to stop the smuggling of illegal drugs. Times, Sunday Times
The 1990s saw a massive increase in the smuggling of tobacco and cigarettes into the United Kingdom.
‘In Central America, our aircraft were responsible for tracking and identifying planes and watercraft that were smuggling drugs,’ he said.
The unity government, which is trying to regain control of the capital, has been powerless to stop the smuggling networks. Times, Sunday Times
ACTRESS Amber Heard carefully conceals another pair of puppies in the wake of her dog smuggling disaster. The Sun
He believes that the traffickers follow the traditional southern smuggling routes.
Tri said the Army had teamed up with the Navy and Air Force to conduct regular operations against smuggling on Sumatra.
Armed robberies, fuel and cigarette smuggling, money-laundering and counterfeiting must also end.
He said that the international media keep talking about "the smuggling of weapons" into Gaza, when they should be speaking about arming the Palestinian liberational movement, just as people were talking about the arming of African and Asian liberation movements. Sunday, January 11, 2009

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