1.   As in the Middle East, the oil-rich Caspian countries are run by brutal thugs.

2.   He is so widely viewed as a brutal thug that few have trouble imagining a likely suspect.

3.   In a neighborhood of brutal thugs, he operated with a basic decency.

4.   Sharon still views Arafat as a lying terrorist out to destroy Israel, and Arafat still views Sharon as a brutal thug out to destroy Palestinian nationalism.

5.   Corridan was a crusader for the lowly longshoremen under the thumb of brutal union thugs.

6.   Some students began acting as brutal thugs, while prisoners became hopeless.