Example sentences for: now-defunct

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  • These writings, his relationship with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and his many years of service in the Palestine National Council (the now-defunct Palestinian parliament in exile, from which he resigned in 1991 after being diagnosed with leukemia) have invited smears and misrepresentations: A decade ago Commentary branded him "The Professor of Terror."

  • Mossad has also been handicapped by U.S. mistrust . In 1986, the FBI caught Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish-American naval-intelligence officer, shipping sensitive satellite photos to Lakam--a now-defunct arm of Israeli intelligence largely devoted to stealing nuclear secrets.

  • Another bank executive (currently under suspension) who handled the bank's Russian accounts is married to a man who once worked as 1) Russia's IMF representative and 2) the deputy chair of a now-defunct Moscow bank (also targeted by the investigation).

  • Extreme fighting was tarnished when fighters from the other ultimate fighting operation, the now-defunct Battlecade, were arrested for violating Canadian prizefighting laws when they fought on an Indian reservation outside Montreal.

  • In addition, powerful independent political sites--similar to the now-defunct PoliticsNow and CNN's AllPolitics over here--churn out daily newsbriefs, analysis, and information.


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