9 sentences with “smuggled”

Protest leaders and their followers continued to avoid British tea, drinking smuggled Dutch tea as a sign of patriotism.

Under this act, customs officials were empowered with warrants known as "writs of assistance" to board and search vessels suspected of containing smuggled goods.

Even with the Townshend tax, the act would allow the East India Company to sell its tea at lower prices than smuggled Dutch tea, thereby reducing the smuggling trade.

Silkworms were smuggled out of China in about 550, at which point Constantinople became the heart of the European silk industry, an imperial monopoly that generated enormous wealth.

In a letter surreptitiously smuggled out of prison, Arne Treholt is said to have mentioned banquets at the Soviet embassy at which international and Norwegian politics were discussed.

However, because the British did not enforce the 1733 law, New England sailors routinely smuggled these items from the French and Dutch West Indies at a lower price than they could buy in the English islands.

This figure is lower than the actual total, as approximately 20% of the slaves transported were on undocumented journeys (i.e., smuggled and technically "illegal" from the point of view of the slave-trading states).

It granted "writs of assistance" - basically search warrants - to customs commissioners who suspected the presence of smuggled goods, which also opened the door to a new level of bribery and deception on the shores of colonial America.

The Plantation Duties Act taxed enumerated goods exported from one colony to another, a measure aimed primarily at New Englanders, who transported large quantities of molasses from the West Indies, including molasses smuggled from the French-owned islands, to be made into rum.