(1) Associating themselves with the freedom demonstrations has given Pegida protests an air of moral respectability even though there are hundreds of rightwing extremists in their midst, as well as established groups of hooligans who are known to the police, according to Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
(2) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
(4) Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal case against the media tycoon Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism for punching a fellow billionaire on a television programme.
(5) Tolokonnikova, 23, Alekhina, 24, and Samutsevich, 29, have been charged with "hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred", with a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
(6) Later, Platini added: “I supported Mr Blatter in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 but now it is perhaps time to get some fresh air into the governing body of the world.” In his speech, Platini also warned of the dangers of a rise in nationalism across Europe and a return to the hooliganism of the 1980s inside football stadiums.
(7) On Friday, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, receiving a two-year prison sentence.
(8) Do they see the Pussy Riot performers as prisoners of conscience or as hooligans causing deep offence to Russia's state religion?
(9) Indeed, yesterday – almost unremarked – it was reported that Maria Alyokhina, one of the two imprisoned musicians, was being transferred from the labour camp in the Perm region, where she has been serving two years for hooliganism for performing a song, to another prison in central Russia.
(10) They were sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
(11) All the protesters have been released on bail, but all face possible trial on charges of hooliganism, which has a maximum penalty of seven years.
(12) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(13) The force also developed the technique of using FIT surveillance officers to monitor crowds, a technique first used against football hooligans in the late 1990s that has since been adopted by forces across the country.
(14) He was also recently thrown out of Wembley Stadium for hooliganism during England's 3-0 victory over Peru.
(15) The Russian newspaper and airline owner was due to stand trial on Thursday for alleged hooliganism on charges that carry a maximum prison sentence of five years, after being prosecuted for punching Sergei Polonsky on a television show but the hearing was put back by several weeks.
(16) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.
(17) Four climbers accused of repainting the Soviet star on one of Moscow's Stalinist skyscrapers in Ukrainian colours , and hanging a Ukrainian flag, are facing up to seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism.
(18) But it's not just some hooligan's tag, like Google's artless Irish scam.
(19) Eyewitnesses spoken to by the Guardian said there was more to the violence than pure football hooliganism, the reason put forward by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak's removal.
(20) The Greenpeace activists look set to be charged with a clause of the hooliganism law that covers actions carried out by an organised group and has a maximum charge of seven years.
Thug
Definition:
(n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
(2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(3) "It took 21 days to get my hands on the brilliant Thug Life, whereas the book took me 77 days," he writes.
(4) But with a murderous thug ejected from power, who could object?
(5) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
(6) In Ya’alon’s place is set to come a man routinely described as a thug, even if he did once serve as foreign minister.
(7) During the police repression of the Tunisian revolution, they were beaten by security thugs, and in rural areas around Kasserine some were raped by police after demonstrations.
(8) The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today that armed officers protecting Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as their car was attacked by student protesters showed "enormous restraint" and condemned the "thugs" who attacked the vehicle.
(9) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
(10) "Free speech is a principle of our democracy, but the thugs that prompted violence ... represent in no way shape or form the Canadian way of life," Dimitri Soudas, the chief spokesman for the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said.
(11) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(12) She has no problem combining the roles of mother and hitperson: during one exchange of fire, she offs three thugs, then turns to her daughter and asks, "Honey, should we get a puppy?"
(13) Not surprisingly, the Thugs caught the imagination of the British at home (which is how the word "thug" entered the English language), and became a touchstone for colonial justifications for ruling India.
(14) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
(15) "If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves," Major General Michael T Flynn, then the senior US military intelligence official in Afghanistan, was quoted as saying .
(16) Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longstanding critic of Obama’s foreign policy credentials, urged the president to “do something” rather than deliver what he called empty threats to “thugs and dictators”.
(17) You used to be pretty certain, when a killing happened, that it was the work of the state, or thugs in the pay of the state.
(18) One of the emails mentioned Watson, who strongly denied any involvement, but the Sun branded him “a Brownite thug”.
(19) How embarrassing that some members of the government appear to have behaved in the manner of uncouth thugs – and towards someone representing the UN, which dared to question the bedroom tax.
(20) Hosni Mubarak launched his counter-revolution today, sending waves of armed thugs to do battle with pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo and other cities.