| He has a night job at the front desk of the Baltic Hotel under an equally thuggish boss. |
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| Blogging seems appropriate for an emo kid trapped in the body of a nu-metal lead singer, but what about a thuggish, ruggish street poet? |
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| Let us also hope for a long silence to descend upon the thuggish bigmouth who has strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage for far too long. |
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| But it has been pursued with the same sectarian, thuggish, and ultimately self-defeating spirit. |
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| He discusses the mutation of punk's angry energy into something more thuggish and mindless. |
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| A brief rush of new stories last fall detailed the delaying and thuggish tactics used by the governor's contract consigliere. |
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| From this recent example one can see Beijing's infantile, ridiculous and thuggish attitude. |
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| To disrupt and threaten such work by thuggish behaviour is totally unacceptable. |
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| The CIA-trained SAVAK was arguably the most thuggish secret police in history, with almost limitless powers. |
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| Such criminal behaviour and recourse to thuggish methods is absolutely incredible. |
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| I tried to rescue a female duck from the thuggish drakes one day. |
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| Despite his thuggish appearance, Mr Clarke is a bit of a softy whose grip leaves something to be desired. |
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| Others tell of thuggish naval sailors who smash boats and engines, spike fuel and break their bones. The dispute should be solvable. |
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| He has risen to be the most trusted lieutenant to a thuggish gang boss. |
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| Zoot suits were seem as thuggish and anti-establishment back in the day. |
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| That is exactly the Conservative approach. It is a kind of thuggish approach on health care. |
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| What do they do? They become part of the problem and they engage in thuggish behaviour. |
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| They are just the acts of an ignorant and thuggish force that does its job with a great deal of enthusiasm. |
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| Alexander Litvinenko had angered the Kremlin with repeated claims that Putin was running a thuggish and brutal regime. |
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| In interviews, a few students admitted to dabbling in drugs on campus, but said they never heard about thuggish dealers. |
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| Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson. |
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| I feared for a dog that would be no match for the thuggish birds. |
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| But the real situation is far more complex than the simple, thuggish gubernatorial action suggests. |
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| Unsurprisingly, the thuggish Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was among the first, along with then-apartheid South Africa. |
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| As black-ops units go, it is about as thuggish and ruthless as is possible, without being a criminal organization. |
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| I know a lot of black men who are poetic and philosophical get around the thuggish guys and feel inferior. |
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| Kinsella's thuggish antics have been approved and condoned by the Liberal Party. |
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| Autograph seekers who had waited outside in the rain for hours were shunted aside by thuggish bodyguards as Mr. Crumb was whisked into a stretch limo. |
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| Mr Meciar was viewed as a mini-Milosevic in the making, seen as a dangerous and ruthless populist presiding over a thuggish and corrupt regime. |
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| Libyan, Arab and western sources all described him as a thuggish figure who would beat and abuse prisoners himself. |
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| It is entirely fair to say, given this backdrop, that our policies served to line the pockets of often thuggish drug dealers. |
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| It is getting to be a defining hallmark of the Conservatives to silence their critics with thuggish tactics. |
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| In Canada, Wal-Mart's closure of its first unionized store in Jonquière, Quebec was a thuggish attempt to smash freedom of association. |
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| We should not believe that the deterioration of working relations limits itself to the ghastly fringes of thuggish shipowners, however large it is. |
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| Overseen by the sneery, arrogant English manager James Wright, and brutally controlled by his thuggish enforcer Alku, the servants at Cairo's elite Automobile Club suffer, joke, intrigue and, finally, revolt. |
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| The kneejerk framing of the pair is that Andre 3000 is the preppily Venusian sex-iguana to Big Boi's thuggish chicken'n'grits everyman, but this is reductive. |
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| Pint-size villains flanked by thuggish minions! |
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| He knew the Serenissima like the back of his hand, its palaces and museums, its salons and its slums, its princesses and its beggars, its millionaire courtesans and its thuggish gondolieres. |
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| In Myanmar India snuggles up to the country's thuggish dictators, leaving the beleaguered opposition to wonder what happened to India's championing of democracy. |
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| I was hanging out in Washington Square Park when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a thuggish looking squirrel jumped me and took my jacket, my wallet, and some might say my naivete. |
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| Teen-age boys who play football in Steubenville — among many other places — are aggrandized and often do end up with a sense of thuggish entitlement. |
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| These have helped to raise women's tennis to new heights, but they have reduced the men's game to an aching blur of thuggish serves and whiplash rallies. |
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| Although it is the insurers that compensate the direct damage, the damage incurred in the long term, because the meat is no longer bought for fear of threats from a few gangs of thuggish Breton farmers, is a thorn in my side. |
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| Their thuggish manner made made continuing negotiations very difficult. |
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| Hanks thinks he probably spent more time in make-up preparing to play thuggish, modern-day Irish author Dermot Hoggins than he did actually depicting him on set. |
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| Yobbo or yob is a slang term for an uncouth or thuggish person. |
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