Sentences with phrase «of truncheons»

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Then they released tear gas and hit us with truncheons,» Amirah Lidasan, one of the leaders of the protest, told AFP.

I don't know about your country, but in mine, that particular word — «socialism» — was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal - minded fellow citizens from morning until night, labeling them «enemies of socialism» and «antisocialist forces.

The staging of the King's speech, with a picture of the king Carlos III ---- who prohibited the education and publication of books in Catalan in the 18th Century ---- holding a truncheon behind him, was highly symbolic and revealing.

A police spokesman confirmed the scene just after noon when there was a shrinking chance that they would have to get their truncheons out - but there were no signs of a cover - up any time soon.

The historical references give the play extra bite, with more than a little shade of Blair Peach - the protestor killed by a police truncheon - in one of the characters.

«I can certainly sympathise with chief constables who might prefer the microphone to the truncheon and see why ministers love the feel of a bullet proof vest.

We also disallowed ghastly puns (truncheon vouchers for Sir Robert Peel, a pair of Levis for Charles Darwin so that he could learn about jeans) and the nice try from the entrant (a retired social worker) who suggested «a small consignment of single malt whiskies for an unknown retired social worker».

«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.

The work is a riot: a turbulent soundtrack; a video of a punctured military vest; a fleshy materialisation of the garment; a line of wall - set wooden staffs, their curved trajectory quoting that of a swung flagpole or a truncheon striking a neck.