• Authorities now allege that the thugs who beat Luis shouted racial and ethnic epithets.

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  • Then there is the risk that respectable people take when they hire hit-men: the thugs may turn on them.

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  • The thugs in one incident armed with knives and bottles of acid were hired by rival claimants to the parties' leadership.

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  • And if the thugs truly cannot be stopped, why should foreigners be expected just to put up with them?

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  • The thugs moved in, and in September 2009 the farm was burned, notwithstanding.

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  • Yet he would not be able to survive in this business unless he could protect his gains from the thugs.

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  • The thugs, it turns out, are quite hard to find, and express themselves not in words but with their fists.

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  • Finally, it might take a shock like pulling out of the World Cup to force England to deal with the thugs.

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  • The students were angry about censorship, the persecution of intellectuals and the thugs who beat up any student overheard disparaging the regime.

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  • But that means caging the thugs on whom he has relied in the past five years and bringing forward moderates and technocrats.

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  • Uniformed policemen watch impassively as the thugs beat the last stragglers.

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  • What we forestall along with the inevitable confrontation, nevertheless, is the audacity that accrues to the thugs as American pundits and politicians focus on censoring the filmmaker.

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  • It was the protesters, not the thugs, who were arrested.

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  • With his shaved head, bulging muscles and tattoos, he looks for all the world like one of the thugs he's been hanging out with in Sparta, a crypto-fascist soccer club.

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  • The cause was heart failure, said her husband, Burton Pugach, who spent 14 years in prison for hiring the thugs to attack his then-girlfriend Linda Riss after she spurned him.

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  • The Canadian high commissioner was manhandled by the thugs.

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  • Shareholders also seem to be dismissing Friedland's past legal battles with the U.S. government, his cozy relationship with the thugs running Burma and the lack of in-depth engineering analysis of Turquoise Hill.

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  • With little evidence, the sisters' lawyer speculated in a London court that the thugs were hired by Alvaro to steal the will so it would not interfere with his designs on the company.

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  • The thugs threaten to kill the President, too.

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  • The thugs' first attack was on August 13th.

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  • Medical advocates say many of the confrontations are caused by the families of patients (and the thugs they sometimes hire to help) pushing for more compensation in cases of malpractice, of which there are many.

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  • Yes, Nyerere as a person was the antithesis of the thugs who had taken over so many of Africa's other nations, but his socialistic policies did immense damage, thwarting prosperity and entrepreneurial instincts, and increasing misery.

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  • Ahmad al-Rawy, an MP of the hardline Islamist Nour Party, alone praised the government, saying people in Suez received the news of the curfew "with great happiness" as a challenge to the "victory of the thugs".

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  • Later, NATO troops under Smith's command, reflecting his narrow view of IFOR responsibilities, simply looked on as the thugs of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic forcibly evicted the Serbs who wished to remain in Sarajevo and then burned their houses--a major setback to the creation of a multiethnic state in Bosnia.

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  • So next time Donald Duck traps the thugs, or 007 eliminates the villain, we should also allow ourselves to feel a slight sense of grief and sympathy for the ugly crooks, who might have achieved so much more in life had mother nature made them just that little bit more pleasing to our eye.

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  • And what Mr. Newson talked about, on the day the nine black students enrolled at Central High in Little Rock and the thugs on the streets, the white thugs on the streets, attacked Mr. Newson and L. Alex Wilson, who was the editor at the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, and the message was clear, this is not your story, you're not going to cover it.

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  • The other thugs on the street were mobilized by the secret police and so on, but yet the only people in jail are twenty-eight Copts, plus a few Muslim activists who have been bravely supporting the cause of the Copts.

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  • Poor Alawites also make up much of the rank and file of more shadowy government militias, such as the plainclothes thugs known as the shabiha.

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  • One is Emadeddin Baghi, an Iranian journalist and onetime revolutionary who now resists-by honest reporting in a land of lies-the clerical thugs who run the country.

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  • This is a comprehensive strategy to take back our town centres from the drunken thugs and to restore them to the law abiding majority.

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