| Hearing the detonations, the local vigilantes stormed in, shooting anything that moved. |
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| And jurors are never accused of acting like vigilantes when they convict a defendant, no matter how weak the evidence. |
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| I will also be talking with two outspoken critics of the Minuteman Project who say the minutemen are simply vigilantes. |
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| Although the details of her release are being kept a secret, her family's addresses are well-known to the media and any potential vigilantes. |
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| Still, it was only a matter of time until someone defied the vigilantes and challenged their powers of enforcement. |
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| The communities around these people are not irrational vigilantes but more likely incoherent with grief. |
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| A human life has been extinguished by private guards acting as vigilantes in the defense of a multimillion-dollar company. |
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| He could have asked for something specific such as proper prosecution of the guilty and a roundup of vigilantes. |
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| It becomes clear these men are self-styled vigilantes who are attempting to intimidate the looters and take back the goods they have stolen. |
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| My answer is that more than knocking gold down to discourage the bond vigilantes from moving out of bonds into tangibles is involved. |
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| In other districts, vigilantes set up roadblocks and patrolled neighbourhoods to deter thieves and looters. |
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| Just a few months ago the run-up to such an occasion would have had the wires of Wall Street's vigilantes humming. |
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| In Gujranwala, the marathon armed vigilantes hurled petrol bombs and attacked the participants. |
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| Many were arrested by police and others were injured by unidentified vigilantes. |
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| Health authorities or even vigilantes ought to have shut it down years ago. |
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| A community of spam vigilantes constantly is improving free programs such as SpamAssassin. |
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| However, the reported tendency of some vigilantes to become abusive made the civilian population fear both vigilantes and communist forces alike. |
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| Truss's humorous tract on the rights and wrongs of punctuation now comes complete with a novelty pop-out repair kit of adhesive stickers for punctuation vigilantes. |
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| Such is the pervasive belief here, so skewed are market risk perceptions, that even the world's leading bond market vigilantes eagerly lead the charge for easy money. |
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| Watchmen: The End is Nigh is an action-brawler where you can play as urban vigilantes Rorschach and Nite Owl at the height of their prowess. |
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| The territory's federal justices, plainly intimidated, took no steps to indict anyone for the killings, and Hosmer went so far as to renew his praise of the vigilantes. |
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| Around Brazil, many killings are committed by policemen, either moonlighting as vigilantes or while on duty. |
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| Many a starving farmer who was seen foraging for food near or inside the fields, fell victim to trigger-happy youthful vigilantes and guards. |
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| It was at the height of the armed conflict between the military and the insurgents that armed civilian groups or vigilantes proliferated. |
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| Mr. Bush and the American Republicans do not have much legitimacy to act as international referees and vigilantes. |
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| More formal and less spontaneously formed groups of vigilantes are also found throughout the world. |
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| Opposition groups, vigilantes, criminal gangs and civilians can also easily access and misuse arms, sometimes on a massive scale. |
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| An aviation psychiatrist who advises airlines on the risks posed by air rage has revealed the threat of in-flight vigilantes is already being taken seriously. |
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| In Colombia, vigilantes battling farc became notorious for brutal civilian massacres. |
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| In the current climate, fundamentalist vigilantes may well believe their actions are justified. |
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| But Baghdad's streets are barricaded, armed and patrolled by vigilantes. |
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| There are plenty of other vigilantes interested in torturing gay men with the winking semi-approval of the authorities. |
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| You want to take sides with the vigilantes and call them heroes. |
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| Set in a world that saw actual costumed vigilantes appear in real life as opposed to the funny books we are treated to a view of the superhero as outcast. |
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| Asked if there was a danger that standing up and being counted could lead to vigilantism, he said that he would not advocate the use of vigilantes. |
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| This violence, and consequent counterattacks by the gangsters, eroded much of the group's popular support, but a core of vigilantes continued to wage war on gang leaders for an extended period of time. |
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| With respect to the mandates and methods used by the armed forces, our soldiers must not be like warriors or vigilantes. Rather, they should be considered more as agents of peace and reconstruction. |
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| At the height of insurgency activities in the country, the presence of vigilantes was noted in some parts of Southern Tagalog in Luzon, Western Visayas and in almost all areas of Mindanao. |
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| Ordinary citizens, including vigilantes, are allowed by law to make a citizen's arrest but they are to immediately turn over the arrested person to law enforcement authorities for proper disposition. |
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| A HEADSHOP targeted by vigilantes who placed a homemade bomb placed outside its front door has closed down. |
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| In the same manner, any killing or execution allegedly done by vigilantes or civilian self-help groups should be tentatively listed as a common crime for which they should be held liable before the courts. |
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| Indeed, the victimization by these independent vigilantes often goes unquestioned by government officials, and their behaviour is supported by many within the regime. |
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| The lack of faith in the police to act in a professional manner and to respond appropriately to threats to security posed by criminals has encouraged vigilantes to take the law into their own hands. |
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| Canmore is also the ancestor of the Hunters, a family of vigilantes who hunt Demona through the centuries. |
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| Posses and vigilantes, online and off, mete out rough justice, at best. |
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| On the streets, Shia vigilantes chide unveiled women. |
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| Killings by vigilantes, a common practice worldwide, were sometimes encouraged by the authorities and were too often ignored by the international community. |
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| In some cases, Government officials were reportedly responsible for recruiting vigilantes and paying them salaries in excess of those earned by junior police officers. |
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| Everyone associates vigilantes with lynch mob violence. |
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| These vigilantes were reportedly armed with their trademark bolos with the handle wrapped in a strip of red cloth, while others allegedly carried firearms. |
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| Vigilantes aren't the problem, it's the system which creates them that needs fixing! |
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