1. The owner of the stall, a large, thuggish man, grabbed Dai by the collar.

2. There was nothing thuggish about him but he looked like a gymnast.

3. I wish Obama and his thuggish advisors understood that.

4. Thuggish bush mentality It seems a dreadful irony.

4. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

5. Readers are barely told about the thuggish behavior of the Panthers.

6. Thuggish or not...we're living better now than at any other time.

7. "She's lying," the translator told Prior, in a thuggish tone.

8. Do these thuggish types deserve the mythical status that the movie seeks to confer?

9. It's a disgrace, it is a thuggish gang culture that has blighted the community increasingly over the years.

10. Clashes between thuggish BNP and Awami League supporters have flared in Dhaka since the polls.

11. Is it simply a matter of having to deal with the victors, no matter how thuggish they may be?

12. Malcolm was now being pursued by the Nation, with its thuggish "pipe squads," the Fruit of Islam.

13. There have been any number of dramatic transitions, beginning in 1945 when Henry Ford II wrested control of the company from his confused grandfather and his thuggish underling Harry Bennett.

14. Loewenberg said Haight-Ashbury had a significant problem with sometimes thuggish homeless people filling streets.

15. Yet it has given license to widespread discrimination against gay Indians, in particular encouraging the country's thuggish policemen to terrorise and blackmail gay men.

16. Nodding in assent, he told me that the nation's police force is riddled with officers that have a thuggish bush mentality.

17. Forest dwellers lament being caught between Maoist bandits, exploitative miners and thuggish security men.

18. He had dared to run against the candidate of Taiwan's thuggish ruling party, the Kuomintang.