If this was Jackson's Whole, they could hire ordinary thugs by the boatload.

Workers, in turn, have accused the owners of hiring thugs to replace them.

The Sathyanathans try to think of solutions and finally resort to hiring thugs to break the compound at night.

No one could teach him anything about hiring thugs to highjack a paper's delivery wagons and beat up news vendors.

He hired thugs on a short-term basis.

Apparently, elements in the United States want Castillo dead and have hired local thugs to kill him.

Banks in New York hired thugs to handle frightened depositors.

Mubarak has hired thugs and mobs to make sure that we never have a fair election or referenda in the past.

For his first real test, he is required to eliminate a potential witness against his father; he does this by hiring outside thugs.