Sentence examples for A common thug from inspiring English sources

George F Gitlitz Sarasota, Fla .• To the Sports Editor: Hiring someone to injure an individual is a crime whether it is committed by organized crime, a jealous spouse or a common thug.

Enslavement has always been about greed, whether it's an empire, a warlord, or a common thug.

Personally I believe that corruption is what transforms a leader into a common thug.

Commenters referred to the teen as "a common street thug" and black Americans as "aggressive and entitled primitive savages".

And what makes that any different than a gang member or a common street thug who takes something from you? Listen to the entire interview.

The sight of Mr. Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, 83 and ailing, confined to a hospital gurney inside a defendant's cage reserved for common thugs evoked a range of reactions, with some people feeling the thrill of a vengeful comeuppance and others expressing pity for a proud man who once embodied the archtypical Arab autocrat.

Facing an outcry over crime, among many other deep-seated problems, Maduro has responded by sending troops into the streets to bring order to a city populated with heavily armed pro-government militias, drug gangs, common thugs and a corrupt police force.

Mott and Gordon went back to Louisiana, ostensibly as Klansmen but in reality, the two men say, they were stamping out the group, who Mott describes as "maybe 30 rednecks who go out and manipulate people saying they are a Christian organization but they are just common thugs who hate".

A few have already been paraded on Iranian television, implausibly claiming to be common thugs, terrorists or agents in the pay of foreign governments.

Do you believe Wall Street is too elite to use the tactics of common thugs?

Peter, as Spider-Man, effectively defeats two common thugs - Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn - and puts them in prison.