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"thuggish" Definitions
  1. violent; typical of a violent person, especially a criminal

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By this logic, it would follow that "Ruggish Thuggish Bone" is now "Ruggish Thuggish Boneless," and that "Notorious Thugs" is about "Boneless and Biggie" rockin' the party instead.
Three days later, Venezuela's thuggish regime showed its nicer face.
Here, it's just a label with a vaguely thuggish connotation.
The stunt was labeled "thuggish" and "offensive" by intel veterans.
There is no excuse for this kind of thuggish behavior.
Some Panther leaders became power hungry, thuggish, and infatuated with violence.
It just looked thuggish, like the cop was a criminal, too.
The Republican president who pursued a grand vision of policy abroad and thuggish politics at home and faced impeachment and resignation now has a successor who pursues a thuggish policy abroad to damage political opponents at home.
I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it.
Your thuggish jabs at a brilliant director, Patty Jenkins, are ill advised.
A broader worry is that legitimate complaints are tarred as thuggish disorder.
He is using the party's own thuggish investigators to take on graft.
But then the feds mistake these thuggish types for some real wiseguys.
The threat of the male in nighttime goes further than just thuggish generalizations.
Some of these tactics are thuggish; thuggery, moreover, committed over seemingly piffling complaints.
"I wanted it to be menacing and thuggish in a way," she said.
David Brooks argues that to beat a thug, you need to act thuggish.
In her research, she found he was often reduced to a thuggish caricature.
They remain a ridiculous conceit, a dressing-up club exposed as a thuggish shambles.
"Your thuggish jabs at a brilliant director, Patty Jenkins, are ill advised," Carter wrote.
The tough-guy talk, the profanity, the thuggish stance while glaring at Reince Priebus.
The complaint also accused the company of using thuggish tactics, according to court documents.
He also grows close to Napoli's ultras—the hardcore, thuggish fans who battle the hardcore, thuggish fans of other clubs—yet their sordidness, blending elements of fascism, racism, and mafia corruption, just slides off him like so much mud on the pitch.
If the system doesn't work for you, a thuggish MP can be a powerful ally.
Julius Malema, the thuggish populist leader of the EFF has called Madiba a "sell-out".
Trump is engaging in an arguably thuggish, demagogic campaign, staking out controversial and offensive positions.
The irony is it's free speech that suffers in such a thuggish and febrile atmosphere.
Progressive Era trade unionists, fending off corporate thugs, could steer into thuggish forms of Stalinism.
Ortagus earlier called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
The National Front's thuggish supporters were a visible, violent presence on the streets during my childhood.
And prudent Cucarachas would avoid it, fearing a sting operation by The Donald's thuggish deportation force.
The hedge fund's tactics seemed thuggish, but he had probably become negligent about addressing certain issues.
" Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: "A resounding global NO to Trump regime's thuggish intimidation at #UN.
One of them had a large, thuggish son who spent one family gathering throttling — oh no!
Mr Mugabe's successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who seized power from his mentor in 2017, is equally thuggish.
On Wednesday, McCain condemned Turkish authorities, stating that there is "no excuse" for their "thuggish" behavior.
In "Desecration," a privileged young bride, Sofia, pursues a debasing affair with a thuggish local official.
On Thursday, Ortagus called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
He green-lit a thuggish stunt by House Republicans to physically disrupt closed-door depositions on Wednesday.
He says things like this: I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it.
On Thursday, Ortagus called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, one of Robert Mugabe's most thuggish deputies, was sacked and then fled to South Africa.
Thuggish generals from El Salvador were deported a quarter-century after being allowed to settle in Florida.
Zarqawi, himself from Jordan, was a kind of thuggish figure, known more for brutality than theological sophistication.
Lynda Carter has had enough of James Cameron's continued "thuggish" criticism of this year's Gal Gadot-led film.
Most remarkable is the PTI's win in Karachi, a city of powerful local machines and thuggish street politics.
MNS, a thuggish nativist political party in Mumbai, threatened violent attacks on Indian film-makers who hire Pakistanis.
On January 1st he spoke at the headquarters of the thuggish Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a vigilante group.
Journalists were welcomed into the main hall, not held at a distance by metal fences and thuggish guards.
And this "thuggish and humiliating" methodry reminded one senior intelligence official of a particular scene from The Godfather.
Yet the protests—and the government's thuggish response—will unnerve investors in Kenya more than the specific allegations.
They do it with undisguised distaste, only when the usual thuggish methods like violence and bribery have failed.
Thuggish Lionel Dunlow habitually beats testimony out of black Atlantans, or beats them for the hell of it.
She has done so by cultivating a more mainstream image and shedding some of the party's thuggish associations.
Local officials may be reluctant to resort to the usual thuggish tactics in front of such an audience.
The goal here ultimately is to discredit the Russia investigation, to cast it as thuggish, partisan, and illegitimate.
One craven meeting where Trump sells out American interests to a thuggish and destabilizing dictator is concerning enough.
But if he's not, this case could provide a crucial window into Trump's thuggish way of doing business.
One would never guess from his screen presence that the thuggish Mr. Robinson was actually a cultured philanthropist.
I also see larger meaning in the life of a thuggish mayor from a smallish New England city.
The left hopes that Germans will recoil in horror at the images of Hitler salutes and thuggish street violence.
That makes the thuggish intrusions of despotic power—the Helds' deportation, the shooting of Henriette—all the more wrenching.
Mr Cianci's escapades (often thuggish and sometimes illegal) and his quips (which also became famous) frequently overshadowed his accomplishments.
The army's thuggish excesses had ended up creating the very thing Kemalists most feared: a widely popular Islamic opposition.
The Chinese are accustomed to the often thuggish behaviour of their police, usually aimed at the poor and helpless.
Mohammad Javad Zarif said on his Twitter feed: "A resounding global NO to Trump regime's thuggish intimidation at #UN".
Our overreactive, thin-skinned, sexist thug of a president has created an overreactive, thin-skinned, sexist, thuggish Justice Department.
Thuggish or not, Bach immersed himself in music at an early age, as had generations of Bachs before him.
He has accused Trump's legal team of "engaging in thuggish behavior" by accusing Daniels of violating a nondisclosure agreement.
Does a thuggish politics require a more muscular response on the part of those upholding liberal values and democratic traditions?
"We cannot turn a blind eye to Turkey's thuggish, reprehensible behavior," Cicilline said in a statement on the bill's release.
The only thing standing between a thuggish narcissist and the White House is the almost-certain Democratic nominee — Hillary Clinton.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of the diplomat.
In December 1989, he invaded Panama in "Operation Just Cause" to depose its thuggish leader Manuel Noriega and restore democracy.
What's the big moral difference, they may ask, between a transparent thug and the bland administrator of a thuggish imperial state?
What were the Emmys thinking celebrating this modern day Goebbels, who was the thuggish face of Orwellian doublespeak just moments ago?
Of course, people in the media were fairly obsessed with him, because he was such a powerful and somewhat thuggish character.
"These kids, they mean well, but they're degenerates," a thuggish police officer tells a sympathetic stranger one night at the Seagull.
"The amendments aim at stopping thuggish acts toward Egyptian antiquities," Suzy Nashed, a member of the committee, said during the meeting.
In reality the thuggish duo just wanted to pilfer some cash and were easily warded off with a little chump change.
C. Emma BurrousBurlington, Vt. To the Editor: I abhor Donald Trump's politics, his amorality, his thuggish leadership and his weak intellect.
Kevin certainly brings out a softer side of Black, who's able to drop his thuggish act and be vulnerable around him.
Some Russians worry, understandably, that if the country's thuggish police are told to interfere in family life, they will do so abusively.
Hence the thuggish treatment of shanty-dwellers and the routine shakedowns by police of any shabbily dressed person heading towards Tiananmen Square.
Instead of tolerance and opportunity people were presented with a thuggish form of capitalism, one that divided people into winners and losers.
At the same time, UN organizations such as the Human Rights Council must not be manipulated to shield thuggish regimes from censure.
More accurately, they found that no other candidates had dared run against the TMC, supporters of which have a reputation for thuggish tactics.
The authorities' heavy-handed response and the deployment of the Awami League's thuggish student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, only inflamed the protests.
These are rather thuggish tactics, but it doesn&apost surprise me now coming from the federal government and the FBI and Robert Mueller.
Baldwin peered through the thuggish stereotype—largely media made—and saw in Liston, the hulking body snatcher, a troubled, complex and contradictory figure.
This kind of thuggish behavior, aimed at silencing complaints about the election, is unacceptable in a country that claims to be a democracy.
We don't want a society that encourages thuggish behavior, where if someone has politics different from yours, you get to beat them up.
A thuggish regime might have seized his assets, tried him in absentia on a trumped up charge, or even sought to abduct him.
But because Vaill trades in thuggish buffoonery for shy awkwardness, it becomes unclear for audiences exactly who ignites this powder-keg of tragedy.
He can be deceptively gentle or misguidedly thuggish and delivers dialogue with an upside-down transparency, but with no bogus intensity or bravado.
Many have resorted to thuggish tactics in recent years, as defaults have increased and as it has become more difficult to collect debts.
" Avenatti went on to criticize Trump's legal team, led by Cohen, for "engaging in thuggish behavior, threats, intimidation, and hiding the money trail.
This left the hardliners to make the running, led by the thuggish, hypocritical Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) (who do not hassle police-run brothels).
Mr Craig is a magnetic Iago, a thuggish weasel in a T-shirt and shorts who delivers his lines as comfortably as he breathes.
" Colette, 67—who prefers to use only her first name—says men in workplaces were "flexing a large sexual thuggish muscle they were developing.
The word "monopoly" has a distinctly nefarious ring to it, conjuring up images of thuggish industrialists in smoky rooms, scheming to undermine their rivals.
Mr Bongo's problem is that he seems to want to be judged as a real democratically-elected world statesman, not as a thuggish autocrat.
Alexander Vindman's blockbuster testimony against TrumpIntelligence veterans say Republicans storming a secure congressional facility was a 'thuggish' and 'offensive' stunt that risked national security
They serve the same function for President Trump that jailed opposition leaders in Cuba and Venezuela serve for those thuggish regimes; they are leverage.
Last year President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked on while his thuggish bodyguards assaulted American citizens peacefully protesting in Washington, and President Trump did nothing.
As a proud resident of the sanctuary city of Seattle, I am shaken to the core by the administration's vitriol, ignorance and thuggish ways.
"You can understand very well why people feel afraid to speak their minds ... with this kind of government, this kind of thuggish behavior," she said.
Trump has sucked up all the oxygen in the race thanks to his barn-burning rallies, insane public pronouncements, and thuggish exhortations against the media.
Those in Lagos, in Nigeria, try to ban it entirely with a thuggish unit called "Kick Against Indiscipline", which mostly seems to kick small traders.
The war changed the IRGC, which now commands more than 100,000 troops and oversees the baseej, a thuggish militia of perhaps one million volunteer vigilantes.
Real, de jure sovereignty for Taiwan can probably come only if a thuggish China, today persecuting rights activists, evolves into a more liberal state. Impossible?
Nor do civil libertarians think that he is more inclined than other leaders to unshackle the censored press or end the thuggish treatment of dissidents.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, thuggish abuser of human rights, stands accused of brazenly jailing his political opponents and killing journalists, yet he remains immensely popular.
Just ahead of Trump's announcement, CIA Director Mike Pompeo Thursday called Iran a "thuggish police state" and a "despotic theocracy," comparing its ambitions to ISIS.
That summer, during the Euro Cup in France, thuggish Russian fans went on a rampage in Marseilles, beating up and intimidating fans from other nations.
He recalls a snippet of speech by Pastor Calvin O. Butts sampled on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," which reduced rappers to thugs.
This seems unlikely; for a start, the protests have in part now been hijacked by thuggish extremists with an interest in the violent overthrow of capitalism.
Griveaux said that Plassat's package amounted to "thuggish behaviour" and urged the AFEP and Medef employers' federations to ensure companies stuck to their executive pay guidelines.
Venezuela: Conditions are worsening despite U.S. intervention, and the failed uprising by opposition leader Juan Guaidó has left thuggish, anti-American President Nicolás Maduro in power.
Time and time again, he dismissed their humanity with a grim, thuggish racism, mocking the plight of starving people and blaming them for their own destruction.
But it is a sad day for democracy when disarray and disappointment drive voters to distraction and open the door to offensive, crude and thuggish populists.
Even if its inmates were not brutalized, its guards not thuggish, its corridors not afflicted by gangs, weapons and drugs, Rikers would still be a bad idea.
UNDER a low sun, a frog with a thuggish expression swims alone in a pond, its black reflection a crisply outlined mirror image on the still water.
Loudest has been the Economic Freedom Fighters, a thuggish opposition party appealing to poor blacks with promises of nationalised banks and the confiscation of white-owned land.
"It's sickening when a radical thuggish institution like Berkeley can so easily snuff out the cherished American right to free speech," she wrote on her verified account.
According to the docs, she showed up to Charlie's house only to find 4 "thuggish" men and what she believed to be weapons lying around, including guns.
It is roughly the size of a dime, although thicker, but its head is unusually small, even for an insect, which gives it an appropriately thuggish look.
Which thuggish claimants to power are better for Libya and its fractured political scene is an open question, but the Trump administration's approach has been the worst.
This creates long-term challenges that are growing with a swelling middle class (now larger than America's) that is impatient with the corrupt, thuggish and narcissistic leadership.
Set in a communist dictatorship inspired by the likes of Metropolis, Black the Fall divides the world between the gray oppressed masses and their thuggish, Cyclopean guards.
The right response to thuggish politics is not more thuggery; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.
After all, Mr Orban has stolen the thunder of Jobbik, a thuggish nationalist party that constitutes the most organised opposition in Hungary, by tacking hard-right on migration.
Venezuelans are especially annoyed by a video of the president, resplendent in a white tracksuit, playing catch with Diosdado Cabello, the thuggish former president of the national assembly.
Vince CalderheadHalifax, Nova Scotia To the Editor: The House Republicans' disruption of the impeachment hearings Wednesday was both thuggish and juvenile, in keeping with the president's own approach.
This week's exercises with Russia in the Baltic, meanwhile, suggest not only a shared enmity towards the West but also mutual admiration of each other's thuggish political systems.
Since then the DPP, founded by human-rights activists persecuted during the thuggish days of the Nationalist or Kuomintang (KMT) dictatorship, has shown growing competence in local government.
Cohen, whose speech alluded to the Palestinians only in the context of threats against Israel from the armed factions, said many Arab countries "cannot stand Iran's thuggish behavior".
As for Mr. Trump, his goal apparently was to give white suburban voters who have been offended by his thuggish, bigoted rhetoric a reason to take another look.
Then you look down the street, cops harassing people that live in the neighborhood, trying to figure out why there's 3000 white kids dressed like them looking thuggish!
And Trump's suggestion that we will be well paid for defending Saudi Arabia is an insult to our troops, casting them as mercenaries working for a thuggish potentate.
" She loves the color pink and blasts "thuggish rap at a very loud volume even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core.
Three weeks after the Republican presidential convention, Flynn signed a $500,000-plus contract to work for a powerful associate of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the thuggish ruler of Turkey.
Pompeo called Iran a "thuggish police state" and a "despotic theocracy" last Fall and has argued that the United States is less safe because of the nuclear agreement.
Some conservatives saw her as a thuggish symbol of speech-intolerant higher education, while journalists protested her attempt to restrict the ability to document events in a public area.
That's why the homies behind the film created Gangstify Your Pet, a microsite that allows you to give your furry, winged or reptilian friend a more thuggish, ruggish look.
Last week, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with Hong Kong's student leaders.
" Both Bolton and Pompeo have expressed strong disapproval of Iran with the former suggesting pre-emptive strikes against Iran and the latter calling the country a "thuggish police state.
For his part, NYC Police Commissioner William J. Bratton quickly blamed the shooting on what he describes as the thuggish nature of rap culture, a problematic contention at best.
"The people's concerns in society, particularly in big cities, also stem from thuggish groups who talk of force, who break the law, who have irresponsible armed militias," Lt. Gen.
But Russia has taken on the mantle and gone far beyond, running a state-sponsored doping program with a thuggish insistence that gives its athletes and coaches little choice.
Perhaps that's because Mr. Arpaio has always represented what Mr. Trump aspires to be: a thuggish autocrat who enforces the law as he pleases, without accountability or personal consequence.
He is only one of many Abbas rivals and opponents within his organization who have fled the thuggish reprisals the Palestinian leadership imposes on its own, usually equally unsavory, rivals.
We broke the story ... the woman, suing as a Jane Doe, claims she only signed the hush agreement out of fear because Charlie had a "thuggish" goon squad with him.
He could sometimes be thuggish — he has spat on opponents and cursed them out in the most vulgar terms possible — but he can also be intelligent, thoughtful and highly articulate.
Outside the court, dozens of Mr Pu's supporters defied a heavy police presence, which included the deployment of thuggish men in plain clothes (oddly wearing smiley badges during the trial).
Congress can frustrate Trump's thuggish ambitions by codifying the health insurance cost-sharing payments, congressional-staff health benefits, and the borrowing authority needed to avoid a default on the debt.
The problem with Uber was never that the chief executive had created a thuggish "Game of Thrones"-type culture, as Susan Fowler, an engineer, described it in a blog post.
So the chief factor has to be Taiwan's modern political history, and in particular the struggle to throw off the thuggish dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT).
And when Westerners protest about China's thuggish efforts to exert influence abroad (and, yes, to persuade members of the diaspora to act as the party's cheerleaders), it accuses them of racism.
Morrison describes the thuggish Bolshoi as having survived revolution after revolution because the "narrative respects its own laws of storytelling," the struggle time and again the perfection of ballet's eternal laws.
Hanks' character, alongside a thuggish-looking finance chief and a mysterious founder who drifts in and out of the action, form the three so-called wise men who run The Circle.
There, if you are Buster Keaton , in " Steamboat Bill, Jr. " (1928), you appall your thuggish father with your foppery, especially when he makes you swap your beret for a proper hat.
Mr. Sadr, best known to Americans as the thuggish militia leader who for years after the United States invasion fought and killed Americans, has become a pro-Arab, anti-Iranian nationalist.
Democrats should be scared to death watching the president play to thuggish type, re-enacting the chilling final payback scenes of "The Godfather," when Michael Corleone took out all his enemies.
Alternative für Deutschland officials have been keen to distance their party from thuggish groups like the neo-Nazi NPD party — and to present themselves as a bürgerlich (socially respectable) political alternative.
Next door in Cambodia, the flagrant cronyism from which key Chinese businessmen profit may prompt a backlash as soon as the ageing and thuggish ruler, Hun Sen, is seen to be ailing.
The three women decide to bathe in a nearby stream, but as they return, a group of thuggish-looking young men surrounds the men and women, ordering them to separate by sex.
So a powerful abuser, with their workings revealed, can be reduced to their baser parts — and shown for the thuggish and brutal operator they really are, as well as proved a liar.
With rules changes discouraging obstruction, which led to a sluggish and thuggish style of play, many teams tried to become faster because that became a proven way to separate themselves from opponents.
Ankara (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly's vote on Jerusalem on Thursday was a clear international rejection of U.S. President Donald Trump administration's "thuggish intimidation", the Iranian foreign minister said on Twitter.
But in November 2013, protests began in Ukraine, the country where I had earlier in my life studied and lived for many years, to get rid of a thuggish, pro-Russian president.
When members of Mr. Trump's party pooh-pooh his thuggish rantings and otherwise signal that they will overlook even his most dangerous behavior, they are inviting him to act out even more.
Songs like Bone Thugz-n-Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," Tupac's "Thugz Mansion," and Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug" were heard playing in the locker room, during workouts, and on the team bus.
The strategy did not make a huge difference, but what little substance it had, except perhaps in the military domain, is now gone (and thuggish leadership from Thailand to the Philippines goes uncriticised).
"The Russian regime has shown itself to be a thuggish, authoritarian detriment to the liberty of its own people and the peace and stability of its neighbors," he said in a Facebook post.
On any given evening a mix of thuggish jocks, crusty-looking paysans, well-heeled retirees, urbane day-trippers from Toulouse, teenagers and children can be found tucking into cheap entrecôtes and duck legs.
"The perception of abandoning the Kurds is going to give open season to other thuggish regimes like China who want come after Hong Kong thinking we will not support them," Graham said. Sen.
"Loujain's abuse exemplifies the methods of Saudi thuggish and lawless leadership, hellbent on exacting sadistic vengeance against any citizen who dares to think freely," Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch told me.
Georges Plassat's 383 million euro ($15.1 million) payout was tantamount to "thuggish behavior" and did not tally with the state in which he left Europe's biggest retailer, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on Sunday.
No one is more plausible than Damon at playing battered heroes with their backs against the wall, yet even at his most thuggish, in the Bourne films, he held fast to a rueful integrity.
If you know anything about the real-life Eddie Mannix—the thuggish general manager at MGM during the studio's golden age—then you probably know that making a comedy about him seems ill-advised.
Early this month, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
You have these clowns, many of whom are associated with the president, and they include people like Michael Cohen, who I know he's pleaded guilty, but he's a thuggish clown in his past life.
Since they believe Trump&aposs policies are detestable, or sorry Nazi-like, the left believes it&aposs a by any means necessary scenario, so they attempt to justify their thuggish public bullying, by blaming whom?
At least temporarily, it suited all authorities—Japan's fearsome Kempeitai (military police) and its thuggish Chinese puppet government included—to turn a blind eye to the no-man's-land that evolved west of those concessions.
The repression has disrupted an alliance with business formed by Mr Ortega, who led the left-wing Sandinista revolution against a thuggish dictatorship in the 1970s and returned to power after an election in 2006.
Imprisoned twice for inciting violence, the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) had until recently occupied the fringe of Indonesian society, his followers regarded as thuggish vigilantes with a penchant for extremism and extortion.
They journey through the different environments and diverse population of Alpha, known as the city of a thousand planets where species include sea monsters and organic robots to winged reptilians and thuggish bug-eyed ogres.
" Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the United States of provoking an artificial crisis to oust Maduro and replace him "with their own pawn," actions he described as a "lawless, thuggish violation of international law.
Trump memorably led the USFL's suicide march away from a spring season and toward the fall, and (much like now) his big words and loud voice and thuggish tendencies caused many lemming peers to follow.
" Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the United States of provoking an artificial crisis to oust Maduro and replace him "with their own pawn," actions he described as a "lawless, thuggish violation of international law.
Donald Trump grows more thuggish and mendacious by the day; "gaslighting," a term taken from a play about an abusive husband trying to drive his wife insane, has become a byword of our national life.
The remedy is, as everyone keeps saying, at the ballot box, but the remedy is also in decent people everywhere standing up and denouncing this behavior for what it is: thuggish, shameful and un-American.
Many residents, including ethnic Russians, he said, opposed Moscow's land grab but mostly stayed silent out of fear of reprisals by thuggish pro-Russian vigilantes and security officials who flooded into the peninsula from Russia.
In the days since President Trump's incendiary press conference—where he more or less validated the racist and thuggish ideologies hurled by white supremacists and neo-Nazis—I have been unable to escape something he said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department spokeswoman on Thursday called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing the photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
To this end, she has distanced herself from her father's thuggish cronies, built a team of number-crunching policy wonks and a network of local offices, and shed much of the imagery linked to her father.
That act of vandalism, which the Iranian government now appears to recognize as a mistake, has been held up by Saudi diplomats as an illustration of Tehran's dependence on thuggish proxies and disregard for international norms.
Thereafter, the story tracks Yoav during his comically bleak and desperate attempt at metamorphosis as he moves between his French friends and a coterie of thuggish Israeli men as well as the opposing worlds they embody.
After a rocky 1990s under the rule of Vladimir Meciar, a thuggish strongman, Slovakia transformed itself into the workshop of central Europe and quickly got rich (average income is now roughly equal to that of Portugal).
What they are less keen to admit is that local governments' thuggish behaviour, such as grabbing land to sell to developers, and failing to provide the services expected of them, has become a cause of unrest.
Behind Kadyrov's thuggish and attention-seeking antics, though, is a surprisingly effective political operator who has just pulled off another political coup — to a large extent by turning Russian President Vladimir Putin's own tactics against him.
Hitler's rise, he argued, owed less to the Austrian corporal's personality, his thuggish supporters and brutish ideas, than to his opponents' cowardice and the weakness of Germany's "gatekeepers"—the guardians of its cultural and moral standards.
At their peak, the rallies, which targeted everything from FIFA to political corruption to poor public services, drew over a million protesters, and frequently descended into violent clashes between black-bloc-style groups and thuggish police.
Through much of the mid-90s, I would get calls from thuggish-sounding people I suspected were either Feds or on Giuliani's team, trying to get dish on any illegal activity allegedly committed by Peter Gatien.
The New York Times and nonprofit Human Rights Watch looked closely at how the Egyptian national soccer team and its global superstar player, Mohamed Salah, were being used by Kadyrov to boost the latter's thuggish image.
Hamas bills itself as a "resistance" movement, and such movements, from the Irish Republican Army to the Viet Cong to Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF, tend to behave in strikingly similar ways: fanatical, thuggish, militaristic, hypocritical and corrupt.
As thuggish presidential candidate Trump incites his followers to political violence and praises dictators Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Benito Mussolini, and Kim Jong-Un, Castellucci's Caesar does well to remind us of the threat of tyranny.
The right and some parts of the center need there to be a thuggish left, something that allows them to say that "both sides" are equally extreme in the Trump era even though that's plainly untrue.
In the series, Pence (Rory Kinnear), the principal officer on the case, was raised in apartheid Rhodesia, and he manipulates, beats and bribes the black community, his tactics only growing more thuggish as the activists gain acclaim.
"Teaching in an urban school is a specialty, like surgery," said Dr. Emdin, who urges teachers to see beyond the thuggish behavior of difficult students, which might be a performance that itself involves great strategy and talent.
Thursday afternoon in the United States, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman called China a "thuggish regime" for disclosing photographs and personal details of a U.S. diplomat who met with student leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
Formed by veterans of the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, it made a name for itself as a thuggish militia in northwest Bangladesh that terrorised leftists and bullied women into wearing the veil.
Intelligence veterans were stunned by news that Republican lawmakers stormed a secure area on Capitol Hill where impeachment hearings were taking place Wednesday, saying what some called a "thuggish" stunt could pose a threat to national security.
He worked on the scenario for a week, creating two gangsters—one thuggish, one swank—and a flapper attracted to both, and von Sternberg turned the story into a darkly brooding composition of shadows and fleeting figures.
No mere double act, "No Man's Land" incorporates two further characters: Briggs (the 1997 Tony winner Owen Teale, overdoing a faux-thuggish accent) and Foster (Damien Molony, an Irish actor whose East End intonations are pitch-perfect).
"Johnny was a bit thuggish, embraced by people who worked in factories," said Olivier Seiler, a Parisian production designer and one of the few people I know who harbors an unabashed and unreconstructed love of Mr. Hallyday.
He owns the biggest newspaper in Washington, thanks to which he wields enormous political influence and has earned the ire of our infamously thuggish president; and his flagship company, Amazon, now produces highbrow movies and TV shows.
Eminem hopped off the set of 8 Mile to catch up with Drake, who was just listening to "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" in his bedroom with those big '70s headphones on, and they both decided to troll Joe Budden.
How it responds to Sir Robert's finding—that a thuggish foreign state seemingly murdered a British citizen on the streets of the capital—is a fine test of how much any of this really means. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
Voicing their opposition to what the writer Salman Rushdie called the "thuggish violence" creeping into Indian life and attacks on "ordinary liberties," dozens of authors and poets like Uday Prakash, Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi relinquished the awards.
His shorn pate, bent at a 90-degree angle, echoes the head of the dead saint, while his back seems to bear the oppressive weight of the blank wall above him, a thuggish Atlas holding up the void.
" On the attack on Christians in Egypt: Trump's statement: "…[T]his attack also steels our resolve to bring nations together for the righteous purpose of crushing the evil organizations of terror, and exposing their depraved, twisted, and thuggish ideology.
Critics of the first "Arab of the Future" have argued that the book walks across the street and around the corner to reify the worst stereotypes of the Arab world: That it's uncivilized, narrow-minded, thuggish, corrupt, anti-Semitic.
Bret: The threat to turn the Justice Department loose on our editorial pages because of the Op-Ed article we published by an anonymous senior administration official is the sort of thuggish tactic Tricky Dick might have fantasized about.
Kenny (Kevin Janssens), with a slick of dark hair down the middle of his head and a Kirk Douglas dimple in the center of his chin, is the wilder sibling, eager to fight and possessing a certain thuggish charm.
People still have this idea of, 'Well, they must have been kind of thuggish or they must have done something to warrant this kind of treatment,' but the point is that we are at a place where that's not necessarily true.
A now-infamous story Brad Stone recounts in his book about Amazon, The Everything Store, tells of Jeff Bezos's thuggish behavior toward a startup called Quidsi that was trying to break into the e-commerce business with brands like Diapers.
If Facebook really cares about standards or safety, I don&apost think they would be granting ANTIFA chapters from coast to coast where their pages can plug their next thuggish beat down of conservatives with their black hoods and all.
It was rather heart-warming to hear the nostalgic, faintly defiant cheers for George W. from a crowd of cautious, quietly prosperous Republicans who do not want a thuggish property tycoon to rip America up and make it great again.
The fact that its thuggish regime is now entrusting its survival to a facilitator of Iranian interests in Latin America should make the incoming administration prioritize Venezuela's future in its foreign policy and seek to weaken Iran's influence in Caracas.
His research has focused on the province's largest Vietnamese investor, the Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, which operates rubber plantations and other businesses and which advocacy groups have accused of thuggish land-grabbing tactics in Laos and in neighboring Cambodia.
A local business group tied to the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, of which Boeing is a member, has been running advertisements on local television, including one depicting a thuggish casino boss urging people to roll dice at a craps table.
From day one after the "genuine popular revolution," all independent worker and soldier initiatives were crushed, while non-Bolshevik politicians and intellectuals were told to go jump into the "trash can of history," in Trotsky's much-admired and revoltingly thuggish phrase.
Not only has Pompeo likened Iran to the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group, calling the country a "thuggish police state" in a speech in October, he has also promised to constrain Iran's investment environment and "roll back" its 2015 nuclear deal.
"I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told a briefing later on Thursday.
Before wading into the sisters' lives, she devotes detailed chapters to two men: Sun, who amassed power mostly by being a ruthless, thuggish blowhard; and Charlie Soong, the paterfamilias of the Soong clan, a former Methodist preacher turned wealthy businessman and underground revolutionary.
L.O.T.I.O.N. is fronted by the artist Alexander Heir and made up of a who's who of Nuke York subway dwellers (with members of Terrorist and Warthog), all who collaborate to make World Wide W.E.B. nine tracks of cunningly thuggish Wax Trax paranoia.
The head of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, has tried to cleanse the party of its far-right thuggish roots, but they still differ from their Finnish cousins with a more openly xenophobic past, which makes them less acceptable partners for mainstream parties.
The girls know Don Achille (Antonio Pennarella), the town's thuggish kingpin, as a real-life boogeyman; later, Marcello and Michele Solara (Elvis Esposito and Alessio Gallo), arrogant rich bros who cruise girls, sharklike, in their shiny car, become a more familiar menace.
Over the course of a more than 90-minute delivery, Trump pushed conspiracy theories and blatant lies, trashed law enforcement officials that aren't blindly loyal to him, exhibited thuggish tendencies toward protesters, made misogynistic remarks, and demonstrated that he fundamentally misunderstands the Constitution.
When I got a prepublication copy of the book on Friday, I wasn't sure what to think of the scene in which Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, fires her, making thuggish threats to destroy her reputation if she doesn't go quietly.
Around the same time, Trump's thuggish campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with battery for grabbing a reporter as she attempted to ask Trump a question (authorities confirmed that the mauling took place, but dropped the charges after concluding the conduct was not criminal).
The company's long, quiet game of gentle Washington influence turned darkly thuggish when the New America foundation — long seen as a harmless channel for worthy tech philanthropy — pushed out the anti-monopoly scholar Barry Lynn and his team after Eric Schmidt lost his temper.
It was then that Jacob Zuma began his nine-year reign as president, during which time the thuggish kleptocrat and his cronies ransacked state-owned enterprises (SOEs), plundered local and provincial governments, and ravaged the law-enforcement institutions set up to curb such looting.
That he was a little rougher around the edges than some of the bespectacled Jewish intellectuals who filled the ranks of the early Russian socialist movement was more a testament to the fact that they were bespectacled Jewish intellectuals than that Stalin was particularly thuggish.
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But Mr. Trump's hope is to roll supposed Mexican rapists, murderers of policemen, terrorists, thuggish Chinese exporters, the Benghazi attackers and the nonviolent demonstrators of Black Lives Matter into an all-purpose satanic gang that can be addressed only by walls, deportations, jail and torture.
MANAGUA (Reuters) - A thuggish response to weeks of protests has eroded carefully constructed pillars of support in the Church, military and business world for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, emboldening calls for the ouster of the former Marxist guerrilla who has dominated politics for decades.
Whatever the reason, there's been nothing quite like Mr. Trump's love affair with one-man rule since Spiro Agnew returned from a world tour in 1971 singing the praises of thuggish dictators like Lee Kuan Yew, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Mobutu Sese Seko and Gen.
But if you wonder where some men got the idea that "no" means "maybe" and that a squirming woman just needs a thuggish tug toward her inner vamp, well, one answer is "Rocky" and a long line of movies with similar suggestions and scenes.
And that's why for three years they've been engaged in political persecution against us .... They mounted a thuggish, incessant campaign of pressure — I'd say almost inhuman — on the attorney general .... Now, since the attorney general is only flesh and blood, the left wing's pressure succeeded.
We may live in a thuggish world that requires more than good intentions and wishful thinking for survival, but unless the United States offers a comprehensive message and careful deliberations to back up our thuggery, we will be just another bully on the block.
Hong Kong (CNN)The US State Department hit out at China Thursday, accusing Beijing of behaving like a "thuggish regime" after the personal information of an American diplomat in Hong Kong, including the names of her children, was published by a pro-government newspaper.
They bond quickly over their shared taste in alternative rock (the movie's title is derived from a Nirvana song), are stomped by thuggish peers (most of whom look to be about 30), and are befriended by a somewhat less immediately alienated misfit (Amandla Stenberg).
I am sure they have been thrilled to see that on this promise, Trump is making good, empowering a thuggish ICE Deportation Force to expand their powers to deport anyone they come into contact with even if they only thing on their record is a parking ticket.
The two most popular Trump impressions have been on Saturday Night Live, where the transition from Darrell Hammond's buffoonish Trump to Alec Baldwin's thuggish one mirrored a change in thinking about Trump on the left—almost overnight, he went from being a joke to a threat.
An ultra-nationalist backer of a Greater Serbia, who recruited an infamously cruel and thuggish militia to help create it, for the past seven years Mr Seselj has been on trial for war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
If Donald Trump is their presidential nominee in November's general election, they increasingly fear that the businessman will lead them to a defeat of epic, Napoleon-in-Russia proportions, after laying waste to their support among women, suburbanites, non-whites and those dismayed by thuggish violence.
The story takes off in Megasaki City, where the thuggish Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura), has banished dogs to an island garbage dump, beginning with Spots (Liev Schreiber), a weaponized guardian of, and loving companion to, Atari (Koyu Rankin), the mayor's 12-year-old ward.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the thuggish ruler of Chechnya — who, among other things, implausibly claimed that human rights abuses against gay people couldn't have possibly happened because there were no gays in Chechnya — didn't miss a chance to snap a selfie with Team Egypt's wildly popular forward Mo Salah.
Mr. Grimm is in a thuggish league of his own, remembered by many not for his financial finagling but for having threatened in 2014 to hurl a NY1 reporter from the balcony of the United States Capitol for having the temerity to ask a fair question.
One of these, Alex Gibney's new documentary Citizen K, tells the story of a different billionaire in a different country who built his fortune by skirting the law to establish an oil and gas giant, and who earned the ire of a different infamously thuggish president.
These reforms were prompted by public outrage at thuggish royal behaviour, most notably that of Sultan Iskandar (father of Sultan Ibrahim), who was convicted of assault and manslaughter and only escaped prosecution for the fatal beating of a golf caddie thanks to his immunity as head of state.
For the three agencies that produced the report — the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency — this is a heart-stopping moment: They have just told their new boss that he was elected with the vigorous, multifaceted help of an adversary, the thuggish autocrat who rules Russia.
" Asked by the Boston Globe's Jess Bidgood what he would consider a quid pro quo from Trump to Zelensky, Graham replied: "'Uh, hey pal, you know, you need to like, go after the Bidens or I ain't gonna give you any money,' [He'd] be really, like, thuggish about it.
But "Mercy" doesn't grant us an inside look at the Saviors' day-to-day operations, so we really have no idea whether Negan engages in any mind games with his subordinates to weed out subversives, or whether he runs his shop purely on trust and fear like a thuggish dolt.
Stephens, as you may know, is the recently hired New York Times columnist known for holding ugly, entirely unremarkable ideas (Black Lives Matter is "thuggish," there's no data to support a campus rape epidemic) that will supposedly "diversify" the paper's stable of old white dudes who believe different wrong things.
Ozuna, Bad Bunny, Wisin, and Almighty - "Solita" Effectively an "All I Do Is Win" for the trap en español set—with a familiar sounding and booming beat to match—the boys cover the spread for DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz with boasts of seductive prowess on this thuggish ode to infidelity.
On the plus side, the new season moves beyond last year's unfortunate, protracted side plot involving Quinn, played by Rupert Friend, and plunges squarely into the machinations of President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel), whose actions against her political enemies is being called "thuggish and authoritarian," a senior aide (Linus Roache) warns her.
The State Department has called on China to honor the "one country, two systems" rule, and a State Department spokesperson in August called China a "thuggish" regime after it released personal information for a US consular official who met with Hong Kong protesters, which China used as propaganda to show foreign meddling.
It is a model of self-determination, peace and the promotion of human rights—the core principles of the UN. Formerly a thuggish one-party dictatorship under martial law, over three decades Taiwan has transformed itself into a vibrant democracy that is notable for being decent, prosperous and civil, albeit with wildly rumbustious politics.
For this to happen, however, Ukraine and its allies insist that Russia must withdraw its military hardware from Donbas; that the region's residents must be free of thuggish militants; that those who were forced to flee Donbas must be allowed to vote; and that Ukraine must be able to control its external border with Russia.
Likewise, on January 21971, 22019, In a cartoon labeled "I, Donald," Rogers depicted Trump in a tutu and brandishing a length of pipe as he ice-skates around a fallen female rival bearing the initials "FBI" — an allusion to I, Tonya (2017), the film about the controversial figure skater Tonya Harding — to illustrate Trump's thuggish lawlessness.
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The country adopted an "anti-gay propaganda" law in 2100, which launched a new wave of vigilante attacks against LGBTQ people — the activist Yelena Grigoryeva was killed in St. Petersburg just last week — and nowhere is that more true than in Chechnya, a majority-Muslim republic ruled by a thuggish leader given free rein by the Kremlin to crack down as he wishes.
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Jones's account is evenhanded to a fault: He fails to emphasize the villainous role of Hoover as the chief reason that Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss and his two thuggish accomplices, Tommy Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry, were all old men before Baxley and Jones were able to put them behind bars in a series of three dramatic trials conducted in 1977, 2001 and 240.
To this day, no one knows exactly what killed the horror writer, but one popular theory for his 22000 death in Baltimore was that he was the victim of "cooping"—in other words, he was kidnapped by a band of thuggish partisans on Election Day, kept in a state of drunkenness, and forced to change his clothes so he could vote over and over again.
HILL: Well, there&aposs a systematic absence of law and order that&aposs running amok in this country, a kind of thuggish reality that&aposs running amok in this country and the rule of law has got to take form, and Americans have got to wake up and realize that a respect for the rule of law has to be foremost and in the defense of our great republic.
But what if he's made peace with a candidate who called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, mocked a disabled journalist, belittled John McCain's experience as a prisoner of war, praised Vladimir Putin's thuggish leadership style, complimented the Chinese government on its brutal handling of the uprising in Tiananmen Square, made misogynistic remarks galore and boasted during a debate about the size of his penis?
In the other, he used the word "thuggish" in reference to Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. "The failure of the Socialist Party, its tendency to substitute a kind of left rhetoric for serious analysis, is to be regretted because if ever we needed a democratic socialist movement it is today," Mr. McReynolds wrote after his resignation.
It would describe its shape, its root system (taprooted, deep fibrous roots, shallow horizontal roots); its life span (a short-lived pioneer like columbine, or a long-lasting lavender); its sociability level; its adaptation to stress (quick-establishing, but short-lived ruderal species like Gaura lindheimeri or Nassella tenuissima; a thuggish, fast-spreading competitor like Monarda didyma; or a slow but steady stress-tolerator like Hosta or Calamintha).
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The dynamic Alexander Scheer (in the role of Lord Byron, whose poem "Manfred" is quoted from at length) and the high-strung Daniel Zillmann (playing a Parisian theater director) easily outshine the play's central duo: Martin Wuttke plays Faust with a thuggish gruffness that quickly gets tiresome; Marc Hosemann's muscular and mischievous Mephisto was more impressive — until this endurance test of a production took its toll and he began to lose his voice toward the end of the evening.
It's there that Claude, a Frenchman who received his early training from the pioneering Lumière brothers, joins with three partners to create a small studio: There's Hal Bender, a Brooklyn theater owner whose beloved father was murdered by thuggish moneylenders; the Australian stuntman Chip Spalding, "a teenage daredevil in a loincloth"; and the haughty but complex French actress Sabine Montrose, who makes the shift from stage to film at Claude's urging — and who, in the process, also becomes his undoing.
The "no-indictment" issue has been intensified recently by the Southern District of New York's sentencing recommendation for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's decade-long thuggish "fixer," after he pled guilty to criminal violations of campaign finance law, among a variety of other lawbreaking, and implicated President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in directing him in those campaign violations.
And the very fact that it has happened in this way reminds us, quite powerfully, quite joltingly, what else the exhibition leaves almost entirely unsaid about the complicated relationships between Islam and the West, and what a wasted opportunity it has proven to be, An otherwise painstakingly interesting show, though never really much more than that, Inspired by the East promises so much yet delivers, in intellectual terms, so frustratingly little at the very moment when there's so much crying out to be said in this world of thuggish prejudice and wanton ignorance.
If you take women seriously as full and equal human beings, and you contemplate the hundreds of thousands of victims of abuse who will never be heard or receive any recompense, and you contemplate the untold thousands of abusive acts and relationships ongoing in the US as we speak, and you contemplate the hostility and skepticism with which victims are still met when they come forward, and you contemplate the thuggish misogyny of the current administration and the real damage it is doing to American women, it just becomes really difficult to gin up a lot of sympathy for, oh, Al Franken.
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