Sentence examples for a thugs from inspiring English sources

"We now routinely have reports of stations being left unstaffed and the safety culture being ripped apart as London Underground is turned into a thugs' paradise," said Mick Cash, the RMT general secretary.

"A thugs who robs a minister, president or an incompetent m.p. is the ROBINHOOD of today and what a good job," read a recent post on a Kenyan blog.

All that jazz about defending turf, avenging real and imagined slights, and adopting a thugs' code of honor could have been sculpted from cheese recycled from B westerns, battle epics and swashbucklers playing at the corner movie house.

A prime example is Egypt, where the government at one point rounded up journalists and sicced rent-a-thugs on them (and others) during the Tahrir Square uprising in Cairo.

The field of correctional psychology can attract idealists who tend to see all prisoners as society's victims and who distrust anyone wearing a security badge — corrections officers call such people "hug-a-thugs".

Everybody's a thug.

"A thug," Mr. Troutman declares.

Noriega was a thug.

They wanted a thug?

This conductor looks like a thug.

"This guy's a thug," he said.