But unless this thuggish behavior is firmly punished, other states and municipalities will quickly follow suit.
But Mr Aristide became increasingly despotic, relying on thuggish gangs to enforce his rule.
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Another is that Mr Humala would be a less economically competent and more thuggish version of Mr Fujimori.
"There can be absolutely no excuse or justification for this kind of thuggish and lawless behavior, " she said.
Russia, if its rulers remain on a thuggish course, could try to prop up falling fuel prices by curtailing critical supplies.
Gorakhpur is a sprawling city near the Nepalese border in eastern Uttar Pradesh, notorious for thuggish religious politics, gangsters and smugglers.
That may be why Guillermo Moreno, the thuggish commerce secretary, is moving to stamp out the unofficial, but widely trusted, price indices.
Only Mr Rabbani, an icon of the Northern Alliance, stayed inside Mr Karzai's tent, with a thuggish vice-president, Mohammad Qasim Fahim, another Tajik.
Others suggest that she may retreat to an inner circle in which Hugo Moyano, a thuggish union leader, is an increasingly prominent figure.
The Bosnian militias who fought that day were thuggish and linked to criminal gangs, but they saved Sarajevo from falling to the Serbs.
Any story works better with a villain, and those thuggish Georgetown teams could play the roll as well as anyone, including Miami Hurricane football.
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We read a lot about the thuggish extreme-right party, Golden Dawn.
The Australian media have harked back to 1989, when McGeechan's Lions employed what one paper recalled as "thuggish" tactics to square the series after losing the opening match.
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In "Raylan, " out next week, the marshal gets tangled up with criminals who try to cut out his kidneys, a corrupt coal-company executive and a thuggish strip-club owner.
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Stir in a high-minded wife (Marin Ireland), a sluttish but good-hearted starlet (Rachel Brosnahan), a school-of-Uriah-Heep agent (Chip Zien) and a thuggish studio fixer (Reg Rogers) and you get .
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The prosecution described it as terrifying and thuggish hooliganism.
Indeed, many Nepali politicians say the agreement should be renegotiated, arguing that the Maoists have not kept their side of the bargain, for example by failing to control their thuggish youth wing.
But Mr Putin's casually thuggish comment, and the fuss that the deal has caused, point to an underlying problem for businesspeople: should a responsible company climb into bed with a dodgy one?
Mr Balls is clever, tough and ambitious, but his thuggish ways, in particular his brutal vendettas against colleagues on behalf of Mr Brown, have left him with an uncomfortably large number of enemies.
Support for Jobbik, the thuggish far-right party which won 17% of the vote in April, and the Magyar Garda, its uniformed wing, is sliding as the party fractures amid a welter of mutual recriminations.
These parties, all with their own special characteristics, are distinct from older far-right groups such as France's National Front and Italy's Northern League, and have still less to do with thuggish movements in eastern Europe.
He saved the British newspaper industry from being destroyed by thuggish print unions, endured years of losses to make satellite television a success, cracked the American television triopoly with the creation of Fox and gave the world Homer Simpson.
Obama is the guy who wanted to meet the world's most thuggish leaders, who wanted strategic change, and who wanted to avoid the "wrong kind of experience" -- implying Clinton's team was riveted in the past and not ready for the future.
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Under, a veil of sophistication (made possible due to comparisons with the ruthless and thuggish Hugo Chavez) Lula's Brazil has become a negative force in the region (attracting Argentina and Uruguay, countries now run by two leaders who share Lula's triumphalist attitude).
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Though his thuggish networking often nettled those who worked with him in Brussels, where he was feared and disliked by many a Eurocrat, Mr Lamy's ease in both the American and European political cultures could prove an asset, though not a clinching one, in trade disputes.
Jerry Richardson, who was her right-hand man during the thuggish days when she surrounded herself with a gang known as the Mandela United Football Club, and is currently serving a life sentence for Stompie's murder, said this week that she ordered that the boy be killed, but did not herself stab him.
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