Sentence examples for And truncheon from inspiring English sources

Duchessofgrange came up with the goods, suggesting the Pump and Truncheon, "a locals pub, inhabited by market traders and sea front stall owners".

First, he has several times over been voted out of office by the people he has bullied, starved and impoverished, but continues to rule through the gun and truncheon as, in effect, a coup leader.

There are plenty of disaffected voters on the far right and far left who are fed up with their old leaders reinventing themselves as sober centrists and who would rather return to the heady days of muscle and truncheon, if not worse.

The religious police are trying to teargas and truncheon this cry into submission, with the possibility of a Tehran Tiananmen hanging in the city's smog.

Their sergeant, David Pengelly, who – armed only with a shield and truncheon – placed himself in front of the crowd in an effort to save Blakelock and another officer, received the George Medal, awarded for acts of great bravery.

Inside the museum, visitors must pass through a barrier of effigies of the old leadership's helmeted, shield-and-truncheon-bearing political police to inspect the devices by which they were spied on.

But the earth-shaking Paris protests in 1968 also began with calls for university reform -- before spiraling into street battles between radicalized students and truncheon-wielding gendarmes, opposing symbols in the culture war between old and new France.

Several churches have been completely torn down and bloody clashes have broken out between congregants fighting to defend the symbol of their faith and truncheon-wielding security guards sent to enforce the demolitions.

They were armed with just their shields and truncheons.

The Syrians were beaten back with shields and truncheons, and sprayed with fire extinguishers.

And a big posse of riot police, with dogs and truncheons.