7 sentences with 'smuggling'
Example sentences and phrases with the word smuggling and other words derived from it.
• « But far from buckling under the pressure of the Continental System, Britain was getting richer, seizing the remnants of the French Empire in the Caribbean and smuggling cheap but high-quality manufactured goods to Europe. »
• « Andros also undertook to enforce the Navigation Acts, a measure that threatened to disrupt the region's trade, which relied heavily on smuggling. »
• « Grenville designed this measure to address the problem of rampant colonial smuggling with the French sugar islands in the West Indies. »
• « Enforcement of customs laws had been based in Britain, but the rules were difficult to enforce over such a distance and smuggling was rampant. »
• « While slave smuggling continued, the end of the international slave trade meant that domestic slaves were in high demand. »
• « Many more slaves arrived illegally from Cuba; indeed, the Cubans relied on slave smuggling to prop up their finances. »