Example sentences for: now-defunct

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  • She started off in the '70s writing about rock 'n' roll for Rolling Stone and especially for the Boston Phoenix . At the time, the Phoenix and the now-defunct Real Paper were at the epicenter of alternative journalism--a training ground for critics and reporters who would graduate to big city dailies and the slicks.

  • 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."

  • The Algerian Islamic League, the suspected terrorist group, is described as a now-defunct cultural organization by its founder, an Algerian arms dealer living in Switzerland.

  • 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).

  • 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.


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