She is medicated into a zombie state in the psychiatric ward; and Brody, held by Venezuelan thugs force-fed heroin to dull his wits, is trapped in a different kind of madhouse.
Thugs forced their way aboard Mr. Booker's coach and beat the protesters.
When he was 5, thugs forced his mother into a car and she was missing for days.
On one side is the girl, who is now a woman of 22 and says that for the better part of a decade, a group of local thugs forced her into prostitution, ensuring her submissiveness with a steady diet of beatings, threats and rapes.
The official Xinhua news agency said on Monday that "thugs" forced their way into the building, started fires and took hostages before security reinforcements killed several attackers in a gunfight that also claimed the lives of two civilians and two officers.
Just afterwards, Deon is kidnapped by three thugs who force him to assemble an artificially intelligent robot.
Hearst and the Annenberg brothers, his circulation managers, armed their delivery men and hired adult thugs to force the dealers and newsies to carry the "American" and "Examiner"...
If the rumours being floated by the Chinese authorities are to be believed, Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, plotted to have Neil Heywood, a British businessman, killed and may even have paid thugs to force him to drink poison.
The colleges' exploitive labor practices have helped produce a generation of athletic mercenaries, some of them charmers, some thugs, some forced into intimidating postures to protect themselves from, among other distracting problems, a mercenary news media.
There was one scene in which Jack O'Connell, playing an apparently fearless street thug, was forced to strip naked in front of Allen's local top villain, thus exposing his sheer terror.
With a mere two weeks to relocate away from the prostitution thriving on her doorstep, Chloe is taken hostage by Bryan Cranston's somewhat cartoonishly accented thug who forces her to help him retrieve a package accidentally impounded in the wake of a double murder.
