• In short, he was in the midst of a reign of terror in the ring.

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  • There followed a reign of terror where she pricked witches as far north as Tain.

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  • This radical Shi'ite takeover precipitated a reign of terror and intimidation in the city.

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  • His thugs are visiting a reign of terror upon Kosovo province, where ethnic Albanians make up 90% of the population.

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  • In a reign of terror Sankoh's rebels routinely raped women and chopped off the limbs of countless thousands of civilians--if they didn't kill them outright.

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  • Under Milosevic's leadership, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army conducted a reign of terror against the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo until last year's NATO bombing campaign.

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  • Without it no terrorist could carry out a reign of terror.

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  • And that is because whenever the hard left has come to power, they have enforced their utopian vision of society by means of a reign of terror.

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  • Yet, between 1968 and 1996, the RAF imposed a reign of terror on West Germany completely divorced from their small size, limited public support, and popular disparagement.

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  • This has helped to improve security and allay public anger, though many Bangladeshis believe that a series of highly publicised mass surrenders of suspects were more political theatre than a genuine end to a reign of terror.

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  • In the same testimony we said that the connection between Chavez, radical Islam and Iran may well be related to the mindset of the Venezuelan president to exercise a reign of terror, violence and totalitarian rule by using the oppressive methods of the Islamic Republic.

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  • At the time of the coup earlier this month, Ranariddh was believed to be close to a peace accord with the last hard-liners from the disintegrating Khmer Rouge guerrilla army, which ruled Cambodia under its notorious leader Pol Pot in a reign of terror from 1975 to 1979.

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  • The murder of Mr Suddards at his vicarage was the culmination of a two-month reign of terror in which Farrow killed Mrs Yates and threatened to kill "Christian scum".

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  • Senior clergymen removed Smyth from some priestly duties and recommended psychiatric treatment, but critics have said the failure to notify police at the time allowed Smyth to carry out a further 18-year reign of terror against children before he was finally arrested.

    BBC: Priestly collar

  • The new Obama administration has a real opportunity to help end the reign of terror of two of the biggest human rights offenders of our time.

    CNN: Commentary: Obama can end 'reign of terror'

  • We are determined to ensure that the Afghan people are not condemned to a reprise of the Taliban's reign of terror - and the safe-haven that regime afforded to those who have in the past attacked us.

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  • After years of painstaking research, there is substantial documentation relating to the systematic killing of a large proportion of the some 1.7 million Cambodians who died during the 1975-79 reign of terror.

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  • If traders are right that Mr Liu's contracts were purchased in April, his reign of terror will have lasted for only a matter of months.

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  • Francisco Macias Nguema's reign of terror - from independence in 1968 until his overthrow in 1979 - prompted a third of the population to flee.

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  • This proposed that a tribunal should be set up outside Cambodia to try leaders of the Khmers Rouges for their role in the reign of terror in the 1970s, when perhaps 2m people died.

    ECONOMIST: Cambodia

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