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How to use the word gangs in a Sentence? Page #5

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Nobody trusted that this project would be possible. Before, this area was under the control of gangs, right now, this area [ has ] become a neutral zone. The control is in the community's hands.

Architect Carlos Escobar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have had to attend kids who have sexually abused other kids, kids who handle guns and are in crime gangs, the kids are going to keep committing crimes, we know, because the state is not properly prepared to stop them.

Angegeymar Gil

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This book is startling in its range of voices and registers, running from the patois of the street posse to The Book of Revelation, it is a representation of political times and places, from the CIA intervention in Jamaica to the early years of crack gangs in New York and Miami.

Michael Wood

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

For years San Francisco politicians have inappropriately blamed licensed and inspected gun retailers for violence actually caused by gangs, drugs, and sanctuary city laws, the City has imposed a crushing burden of redundant and pointless regulatory red-tape on firearm retailers, all in an effort to put them out of business. Now they have gotten their wish.

Chuck Michel

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The last death threat I received in March said: 'We'll shoot you while you're driving your car'. We're afraid. Some schools and the areas around them are totally controlled by gangs, we fear reprisals from the gangs. Any decision you take and they don't like, like disciplinary action against a pupil, can bring a threat.

Francisco Zelada

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We fear reprisals from the gangs. Any decision you take and they don't like, like disciplinary action against a pupil, can bring a threat.

Francisco Zelada

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The vulnerabilities are significant and they're being exploited by not just state actors, but also non-state actors, criminal gangs, at an accelerated pace, so this is something that from a national security perspective and from an business perspective we're going to have to continue to concentrate on.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Zawahiri is clearly very angry and frustrated that the Islamic State has been attacking him, attacking his soldiers on the ground, attacking him personally. you can compare it to two drug gangs, or two mafia mobs. One is encroaching on the other's territory.

Georgetown University Nicholas Palarino

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The plan is to consolidate territories of peace wherever the OLP operations take place, to free the people of this paramilitary stain and these criminal gangs that sully our people.

President Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It started when I got the one on my neck covered up and the next morning when I looked at myself in the mirror and I wasn't reminded that I worked for gangs and I was a part of that kind of life, to have this beautiful flower opening and blooming, it was just, gave me a whole new breath of life.

Jennifer Kempton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The primary objective of this initiative is to actually start controlling marijuana in Massachusetts, marijuana should be produced and sold by legitimate, taxpaying businesses, not gangs and cartels.

Will Luzier

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is shocking that thousands of Vietnamese children in the UK are being used for profit by criminal gangs and that dozens more children are estimated to arrive on our shores every month, that's why it is so important that we work with Vietnam to identify what more we can do to tackle this issue together.

David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Guzman has hurt everyone -- the users in the city and the suburbs, the innocent bystanders, the kids who get wrapped up in gangs.

Art Bilek

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.

Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Approximately 120 people die each day in the United States of a drug overdose, we will continue to target the criminal gangs that supply heroin, and we will work to educate folks about the dangers and to reduce demand. In this way, we hope to complement the crucial efforts of the CDC and our nation's public health agencies.

Chuck Rosenberg

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In some cases you have the gangs taxing other gangs or independent drug dealers.

Gary Tuggle

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I know the struggles many of you face: how you walk the long way home to avoid the gangs; how you fight to concentrate on your schoolwork when there's too much noise at home; how you keep it together when your family's having a hard time making ends meet.

First Lady

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are seeing and hearing that increasing numbers of girls are getting married and coupled to seek protection from gang violence and intimation from gangs, being in a couple with a gang member may give the girl and her family some level of protection from one gang, but may leave them more vulnerable to rival gangs.

Amanda Rives

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Being in a couple with a gang member may give the girl and her family some level of protection from one gang, but may leave them more vulnerable to rival gangs.

Amanda Rives

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are not a gang. We do not do gang things. We are not affiliated with gangs.

Jimmy Graves

Found on CNN
9 years ago

These are very dangerous, hostile biker gangs, a lot of innocent people could have been injured today.

Waco Police Sgt. Patrick Swanton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These are very dangerous hostile biker gangs, a lot of innocent people could have been injured today.

Waco Sgt. Patrick Swanton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I remember riding the train in Osaka and on the window was a sign that read: 'Be careful of cutting your finger,' i thought maybe there were a lot of gangs in Kansai.

Shigeru Kaneko

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's often young, naive, impressionable, ignorant troubled youth who are dissatisfied with their life and are seeking a sense of belonging, and it's frankly the same social factors that lead to youth joining various gangs. I think ISIS is just another gang.

Hassan Shibly

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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