Sentence examples for the truncheon from inspiring English sources

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the truncheon

noun

A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a brok off piece of a spear or lance.

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But Bihar's problems cannot be solved by the truncheon alone.

Is a joke that wraps the truncheon of prejudice in a kind of pleasure any different?

"Either you offer up your face to the truncheon or you defend yourself".

But when The Independent on Sunday asked for images of the truncheon and swastika-bearing flags, Dreweatts declined.

For Mr Maehara, the repercussions were swift.In this section A million rupees now The truncheon budget Take five Abandon hope?

Mr Singh, again, is bound to be embroiled.In this section A million rupees now The truncheon budget Take five Abandon hope?

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"The rarity with which the truncheons appear just helps to make violence harder to see," he writes.

A plucky but small group of pro-democracy activists this week again faced the truncheons of Belarus's policemen.

Unfortunately, political power in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe comes from the truncheons and firearms of its security forces.

I've cringed under the truncheons of Iran's official vigilantes, and I worry every day for the safety of the journalists we've deployed in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and elsewhere.

Cross over three fences topped with razor wire, trenches packed with more barbed wire, risk detection by motion sensors ready to trigger pepper spray, then face the truncheons of two police forces, and two things happen.

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