Sentence examples for thug regime from inspiring English sources

But the next time a thug regime starts massacring its own people, America will find it harder to explain why the ICC should not go after it.

The hope is that when you throw off the chains of a thug regime, it's the taste of authentic justice that guides your hand from then on.

Whether or not he is convicted, Sir Mark's arrest will doubtless prompt would-be privateers to take South Africa's new Foreign Military Assistance Act, which bars mercenary activities, more seriously.But much as it would like to deter future coup attempts, there is a limit to how far South Africa's relatively liberal government can co-operate with thug regimes such as that in Equatorial Guinea.

But when it comes to routine, everyday bureaucratic abuse of "foreigners" — especially brownish ones with exotic names — there are increasingly frequent instances of the kind of ignorant, bullying, Kafkaesque, unaccountable stupidity that one more often associates with thug regimes than with supposedly advanced democracies.

If America's president feels compelled to send delegates to the nest of hypocrites and thug regimes that is the U.N. Human Rights Council, then the best course is to use that chamber in Geneva as a stage to trumpet not what's diplomatically acceptable but what's right.

In 2003, regime thugs attacked her and her supporters and she narrowly escaped being killed.

Residents of the north-west province of Idleb report fresh executions by regime thugs.

The security forces and an array of regime thugs still run amok, killing, detaining and torturing protesters.

Liars screenings frequently come under attack by hecklers — loyalists of the old regime, thugs or simply residents — some even wielding sticks or knives.

Then on 30 May 2003, little more than a year after her release, her convoy was set upon by regime thugs in Depayin, in the north of the country.

As Robin Yassinotessab notes in a perceptive foreword, the author had his left hand broken by "regime thugs" at the fraught funeral of a murdered musician in Damascus earlier this year.