Sentences with word «truncheon»

Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

The historical references give the play extra bite, with more than a little shade of Blair Peach - the protestor killed by a police truncheon - in one of the characters.

Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, defended police actions - which included the use of truncheons and shooting of rubber bullets - and praised officers for their «firmness and serenity» in upholding the rule of law.

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.

Drug lords and terrorists clash with police badges and truncheons in his formally and visually reduced, mostly black and white painting, his meticulously constructed sculptures, photographs, videos, flags and flyers.

Until 1857, New York City police found truncheons sufficient.

The Lawrence Aninihs, Shina Rambos began to have field day ransacking banks and homes with the Nigerian Police relying on truncheons and corck and shoot Mark IV rifles for defence

The activity also includes historical and contemporary object handling where students have the opportunity to handle items from the museum's extensive collection relating to crime, punishment and policing including truncheons and riot equipment.

«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.

They raised astounding crops when the land was young — rutabagas that weighed sixty pounds, wheat unbearably lush, corn on cobs like truncheons.

These NPCs are found relaxing in their own camps, where you can approach with a big truncheon, knock them unconscious, bind them with a rope and drag them back to your base.

I have opinions about alien truncheon porn.

Truncheons at dawn perhaps.

The Special Intervention Brigade (BIR) aggressed demonstrators with truncheons, high power water hoses (water cannons), and mass arrests.

A police truncheon is defined as an offensive weapon, although wearing one at a fancy dress party is a «reasonable excuse for having it in a public area» Houghton v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [1986] 84 Cr App R 31.

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

Social media footage appeared to show the police fire rubber bullets at potential voters and attack them with truncheons.

Peg, Thanks for «truncheon» today — new for me!

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.

It's a worrying reminder that fascism, when it comes, does not always come with truncheons and jackboots.

«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.

The images are large - scale and weighted: menacing military vehicles charge through the demoralized cities; faceless storm troopers in white plastic helmets clobber people with truncheons.

The Rock's acting is about as wooden as the truncheon that he wields, but he has an extraordinary physical presence which makes the fight scenes convincingly punishing.

It may be an actorly crutch, but Olyphant can alternately wield it as a wedge, a hook, or a truncheon to coerce a viewer into watching him more closely.

The LEGO description also zooms in on Black Widow and what's translated as her «truncheons,» which would match up with the badass staff weapon we've seen Natasha carrying in some promotions.

Where the first Kingsman was a shot in the arm, The Golden Circle is a truncheon to the skull.

You knock them out with a truncheon and drag them back to your camp with a rope tied around their legs.

Snatch that truncheon slash night stick and BEAT THAT POLICEMAN!

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.

In the latest edition of the standard legal dictionary for judges and barristers, modern definitions are provided for a loudspeaker, a police truncheon and a main road.