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Yet, like those other thuggish rulers, Saddam won not just fawningly insincere adulation but a surprising degree of support from his people.

Despite a makeover by American political consultants, Mr Yanukovich has not shaken off his image of a thuggish, inarticulate man.

The thuggish yet canny Mr Bashir has lost most of his means of manipulation.

From the start, the red shirts have had a thuggish element.

Inevitably, this led to confrontation with Kadyrov, Chechnya's thuggish tsar.

It is headed by a thuggish former Soviet official, Eduard Kokoity, and run by the Russian security services.

The PAD's thuggish tactics have lost it much of the support it once had among Bangkok's middle classes.

Think of them as thuggish meter maids or health inspectors with batons.

And we can only work that out as people were seeing parallels between the thuggish side of nature and gang warfare.

He has a thuggish history, including two criminal convictions.

Ugly, thuggish and illegal, it is also counter- productive.

As for violence, the death tallies notched up by Brazil's thuggish police force can make paramilitary groups elsewhere look almost benign.

Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi is thuggish and paranoid.