"society" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With the growth of the casino industry, a business called "bate-ficha" was developed and it is usually run by different triad societies.
- As different triad societies compete for controlled territory in the casinos and on the streets, disputes between societies occur from time to time.
- "Having said that, we have long-entrenched triad societies, many of which have tentacles to Macao."
- The first record of a triad society, Heaven and Earth Gathering, dates to the Lin Shuangwen uprising on Taiwan from 1786 to 1787.
- The series contributed a lot to the public image of triads and was condemned by certain quarters as glorifying secret triad societies.
- In 2003, a local court sentenced the leader of a triad society to a death sentence with two years of probation.
- "We are more familiar with all the situations in Macao, and the triad societies and all their activities."
- It also investigates triad societies and their hierarchies with particular emphasis on their involvement in organised crime.
- It did not appear to be against the law, as the triad society was, but rather beyond the law.
- Perhaps a hint of the old Po-han peeped out then; the free-spirited, even somewhat wild teenager who had sought out the triad society as a substitute family.
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