Similar words: permafrost, prima facie, afire, afield, loafing, fiat, mala fide, data file. Meaning: ['mæfɪə] n. 1. a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia 2. a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century 3. any tightly knit group of trusted associates.
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91) The Mafia hired a hit man to go after the key - witness in the trial.
92) Emin, the go-between, had been killed by the mafia, and my new contact couldn't go to the area where Lina lived.
93) And the Mafia cemented its power by originating the law of silence, the omerta.
94) 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.
95) Italian police say they've arrested a mafia boss in the Puglia region of southern Italy.
96) Even if successful, they are unlikely to eradicate the Mafia.
97) At a house near Palermo, police seized Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the most senior Sicilian Mafia boss still at large.
98) Jan Roberts weaves a compelling tale which traps a young woman in a world run by the Mafia.
99) A court in Sicily has ruled that a suspected Mafia clan member weighing 210 kg can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail, local newspaper said Wednesday.
100) Lyndon Johnson was a skilled election rigger, and John F Kennedy, it is likely, won office thanks to the Mafia friends of his father.
101) Handout on Russian Mafia from New York Review of Books.
102) Detectives now believe the Mafia also had a stake in the plot and killed him when it went wrong.
103) The man who planted the kiss on the lips of not one but two other men was a senior figure in the notorious Camorra mafia group who'd been placed under arrest.
104) Never do business with a Mafia - related enterprise. They play with loaded dice.
105) The part of Sicily which Patton's forces traversed had at one time been completely controlled by the Sicilian Mafia, until Benito Mussolini smashed it through the use of police repression.
106) And to some extent the Mafia still fulfilled this role.
107) Indeed, this was the favorite spot for Mafia torturers , who searched it out on the cheeks of their victims with the needle-fine point of an ice pick.
108) Mussolini had been waging a war since 1924 to rid the world of the Sicilian Mafia.
109) He went from being a small - time hood to a mafia kingpin.
110) That the word " Mafia " had originally meant place of refuge.
111) And finally, my thanks to the rest of you, the loose agglomeration of editors and teachers and librarians that I usually refer to, mostly with a smile, as the dirndl mafia. You keep the flame alive.
112) Mafia leader had to be tried on a trumped-up charge, for lack of anything better.
113) Other abiding beliefs include companies looking after workers through lifetime employment and the yakuza, Japan's mafia, being guardians of the lost samurai spirit.
114) The expedience of war opened the doors to American drug traffic and Mafia domination.
115) Denaro played an important role in a Cosa Nostra campaign in 1993 involving deadly bomb attacks to force the government to stop its mafia crackdown.
116) The deadly Sicilian shotgun was the favorite weapon of the Mafia.
117) China's Ministry of Culture has banned websites featuring or publicizing online games which glamorize mafia gangs.
118) A 4-Rod RFQ cavity was simulated with MAFIA code for the design of a high current[Sentencedict.com], high duty factor RFQ accelerator.
119) And this too showed how the Mafia in Sicily was cancerous to the society it inhabited.
120) Nunzio is the brother of the Camorra ( Neapolitan Mafia ) turncoat Luigi Giuliano .
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