Sentence examples for vicious security from inspiring English sources

Habré ran a vicious security state, with secret detention centers, that tortured and executed tens of thousands of its citizens.

Yet Mr Mugabe has retained his vicious security chiefs as well as the useless central bank governor who presided over a world-beating inflation rate in 2008.

Loyal functionaries reap rewards from the state-controlled economy, while suspected conspirators are hunted down by a vicious security service.The solution to Turkmenistan's economic problems should lie in exporting its abundant gas using alternative routes to the one controlled by Russia.

Roughly 700,000 of them have fled across the border to Bangladesh amidst waves of violence after insurgent attacks sparked a vicious security crackdown last year.

It instituted the first of the vicious national security states in Latin America which spread like a plague throughout the hemisphere.

But it also kept the nation mired in a primitive isolation that left the bulk of its people living at little above subsistence level and under the jackboots of a vicious internal security apparatus.

But the country is still caught in a vicious circle: without security, economic reconstruction will falter and the bullet will have more say than the ballot.

Mr. Karroubi and another opposition leader and presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, have vigorously condemned the vicious tactics the security authorities used against the demonstrators, 72 of whom they say were killed.

"Some of the documents were obtained from notoriously vicious, vindictive and unreliable security services," Mr. Tigar said in an earlier proceeding, referring to information supplied by officials of the former Soviet Union.

That could turn the vicious circle of no security and no prosperity into its virtuous opposite.Indeed, right now Mr Abbas's and Mr Sharon's interests are aligned, argues Gershon Baskin of the Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information, a think-tank in Jerusalem.

We seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle of cascading security disasters that just keep getting worse.