1. Economic meltdown bred state thuggery and crime.

2. Elections have become long spells of organised thuggery.

3. It illustrated the thuggery and brazenness of the state machine.

4. This is one reason the corporate thuggery that is destroying the rainforests is so criminal.

5. There has also been a worrying tolerance for thuggery by Islamist vigilantes.

6. What should stop is the paternalistic and well-meaning indulgence of the sub-culture of thuggery.

7. Mr Mugabe has pauperised a formerly prosperous country and used thuggery to remain perpetually in power.

8. A great story would be the stoicism, sympathy and generosity that local populations continue to offer western society in spite of our snot-nosed economic thuggery.

9. Several of the victims'parents as well as foreign journalists have suffered similar thuggery.