Marie (Simone Signoret), a woman of considerable beauty, is distressed at her treatment by Roland, a criminal who is a part of a local syndicate.

Mama Lucia will have nothing to do with mobsters, even when her oldest son ends up as a collection agent for the local syndicate.

'He's one of the people who run the local syndicate.'

Xiang Dahai ("Hai-ge") is a notorious "ah long" and head of the local syndicate.

But then McCabe makes a royal hash of things when the local syndicate decides to buy him out.

November 21 - Bill Veeck sells the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million to a local syndicate headed by Ellis Ryan.

Recent successes include Unique Moment and Duty, horses owned by a local syndicate.

It did not sell at auction, she said, because "the local godfather, which is the library, controls the sale, and developers do not want to intrude on the local syndicate."

The head of the local criminal syndicate?

The ship was then bought by a local syndicate who made souvenirs from the wood.