Sentence examples for sinister police from inspiring English sources

International stars like Ms. Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu as Joseph Fouché, the sinister police chief, and Julian Sands as Metternich confer art-house credibility.

Who has decided that political and environmental groups consisting of individuals, who are guaranteed the rights of demonstration, association, free speech and privacy under the Human Rights Act, should be spied upon by this new sinister police unit?

The mysterious land south of the border, on the other hand, is ruled by the arbitrary and corrupt exercise of power, represented by a sinister police captain and that meddling aunt.

In addition to opening up one of the region's most sinister police states, it could deprive Iran of its most dependable ally, further isolating Tehran's rebarbative clerics.

His sometimes sinister secret police may already be more powerful than Rwanda's elected representatives.

For some units, the reason may be sinister — the police handler may have trained the dog to alert on command.

But it was the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police, that perfected these psychological techniques and used them extensively against dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s.

It had everything you could hope for in a thriller - the old man butchered in the bath, grim grey tower blocks, flashbacks to Stalin himself, sinister secret police, sinister soldiers, sad Russian women, sad Russian trains and pursuits across places that looked so hostile and frozen it made you shiver just watching them.

Meanwhile, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four remains as fresh as ever with its sinister thought police and warnings about Big Brother; it will alert all young readers to the possibilities of political misrule.

Sitting in the elegant wood-paneled bar of the Hotel Astoria, they recalled a strict off-hours schedule, sinister secret police and dancers fainting backstage from a monotonous diet of cabbage and bread.

In July British troops, with American backing, arrested one prominent war-crime suspect and killed another; in October NATO-led troops seized transmitters used for propaganda by Bosnian Serb television; and in November the force began disbanding sinister special police units within the Serb Republic.This more robust western action has also influenced the power struggle among Bosnia's Serbs.