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    contraband


    1. They load the contraband onto waiting trucks


    2. All of this was winked contraband of course, which meant it could be confiscated by anyone official or holy, were they to see it


    3. It was amazing just how much contraband she could


    4. Some part is sent annually by the Acapulco ships to Manilla; some part is employed in a contraband trade, which the Spanish colonies carry on with those of other European nations; and some part, no doubt, remains in the country


    5. Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships, which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main


    6. “We intend to board your ship and carry out a search for contraband


    7. Therefore, new economic and monetary systematics puts an end to commercial retaliations among countries in consequence of the dispute of markets, as well as with the largest world problems of traffic of drugs, contraband, wash of money and terrorism


    8. Also, consider that Brazil loses annually more than 50 billion dollars in flight of foreign exchange, contraband, maintenance of the exchange or falsification, besides the tax evasion in consequence of high tax burden and of the lack of income


    9. It avoids economic retaliations or conflicts of interests among the country-members, as well as it puts an end to contraband, robbery, tax, import quota and wash of the money


    10. Besides, the people, countries and organizations obtain immediate results with the end of the serious problems that so much afflict the humanity, as: misery, poverty, hunger, social exclusion, economic war, drug traffic, contraband, terrorism, corruption and disassistance (security, education, health, habitation, food and basic sanitation)

    11. inside her snowsuit the way they had been searched for contraband


    12. On occasion, smugglers have fired back at or over the heads of Coast Guard crews, and have tried to ram the cutters while discarding bundles of contraband which usually float to the surface, providing incriminating evidence


    13. Papp stressed the importance of the Coast Guard seizure of contraband, profits from which could fund terrorist cells


    14. The list of contraband seized by the Coast Guard included illegal drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, weapons and dynamite


    15. "And then, Captain, I found this contraband in his room!" she barked


    16. If you were caught with any amount of contraband, you would sit in jail for two years - no exceptions


    17. ‘We brought this sticky lump of stuff wrapped in tinfoil back with us; panicked at the airport where there was a Last Chance to throw away your Contraband bin, and dropped about eight thousand dollars worth of hashish into it - probably to be picked out and smoked by one of the customs officials


    18. Admiral Davidson found new jobs for his ex-wives in the traffic department verifying manifests and inspecting cargoes for contraband


    19. They were as likely to become involved with interception of contraband or stolen cargoes as they had been in the combat of pirates


    20. Smugglers and their shiploads of contraband would often be escorted by a P I ship along with the fire control officer and the Marine

    21. She devotes her energies to tracking down pirates, slavers and traffickers in contraband


    22. What the hell did they expect to find? Contraband drugs?’’


    23. It was formed over a century ago as a customs enforcement agency with a mandate and equipment list limited to the enforcement of space regulations and to fighting space contraband and piracy


    24. He eased off the gas suddenly remembering that he had contraband in


    25. Parmat himself, traveling under the assumed name of Khalid Zulfikar, was officially on a business trip, looking to replenish his stocks of merchandise with contraband goods coming from nearby Afghanistan


    26. Among the confiscated contraband was all kinds of


    27. designed the trash barrel that way to hide contraband inside


    28. It was contraband galore


    29. another room and properly vetted for contraband


    30. They asked him to stand on the chair and then passed a wand over his body to make sure that he did not have any contraband, weapons, listening devices, and so forth

    31. They set about searching the passengers and their belongings looking for gold or other contraband money


    32. Camilla had read about cross-border mules hiding the contraband inside their bodies, swallowing it in condoms or stuffing it up inside themselves


    33. " Is that how contraband gets into the prison? "There are many ways contraband gets in the prison, though staff, guards, family, etc


    34. would like to think that most times the contraband is caught, but on the


    35. “Come on,” he said, “it's plain you have contraband hidden away


    36. “You stated that your cell"s speciality was the moving and storing of contraband from


    37. enterprising Mohawks to move contraband goods from one country to the other


    38. system presented the possibility that smuggled contraband could be removed and substituted


    39. declared destination, while the contraband would be quickly diverted


    40. other exotic contraband across the river

    41. tank with its concealed contraband on the floor


    42. The boat from Dubanski"s warehouse with the concealed contraband moved


    43. At the same time, the boat with the concealed contraband was already loaded on a trailer,


    44. explaining how he"d removed contraband that had been concealed in hydraulic cylinders and


    45. It was an infraction, since it was considered to be contraband, and so if she was caught, she would have to be punished—no books and probably a single roll of toilet paper that was supposed to last for a year or something like that


    46. A hiding spot, a glamour, an evil-tasting potion that preached mutiny in his bowels…these had been the terms of those precautions, and Cambridge still wasn't certain whether they had actually worked or if fear alone—the fear of failure that, like contraband, he carried but kept hidden away—had played the master role in his survival


    47. A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European languages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house


    48. contraband trade, and that his affairs were so desperate, that even were it


    49. He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark


    50. One of the biggest contraband shipments we came across that winter were dates



















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    Synonyms for "contraband"

    contraband black black-market bootleg smuggled bootlegging piracy banned illegal illicit unlawful forbidden hot

    "contraband" definitions

    goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law


    distributed or sold illicitly