Cruel physical punishments degrade the punishers as well as the punished. |
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Our sabs and the League Against Cruel Sports will be monitoring the hunt and will be able to produce evidence if the killing was a deliberate act. |
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Cruel and tyrannical, he consciously sought to make himself a despot. |
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Cruel and heartless as it sounds, I don't do anything about this date. |
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I was a subscriber to the League Against Cruel Sports but I am not now. |
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While in New York, Baker read the novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. |
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In its submission to the Burns Inquiry, the League Against Cruel Sports presented evidence of over 1,000 cases of trespass by hunts. |
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Alongside new versions of songs from the album, you'll find fan favourites Whipping Boy and Welcome To The Cruel World, which are worth the price of admission alone. |
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I approach her, intent to help this poor girl and show her the sort of loving kindness that this cruel post-apocalyptic world had not shown her. |
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His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru. |
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I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words. |
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For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch. |
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It is a cruel world, I suppose, but everything we do requires facing that danger and calculating the risk. |
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Women's faces surrounded her, some lined, some smooth, some cruel, some kind, but none familiar. |
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Agathocles, we are told, always lived a dissolute life and was known for appallingly cruel and inhumane conduct. |
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She made the mistake of looking up to make a cruel statement when Nicolette saw her face and lit in to her more. |
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Along the way, Spira learned that more than 100 years of antivivisectionism hadn't ever stopped a cruel experiment. |
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Significantly, however, the federal statute does not impose criminal liability for cruel, inhuman, or degrading acts. |
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The cruel method of hanging a condemned man should be replaced by more humane methods such as lethal injections. |
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It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons. |
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Attacking them with a blunt object, such as a length of wood, could be also considered cruel, at least for the Rottweiler. |
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I'm surprised you're lending your name to such a cruel suppression of dissent, Stephen. |
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She said something to me about leaving the village because of their cruel treatment towards women. |
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Some people argue that hunting is more cruel than shooting as some hunts last for 25 miles and up to 8 hours. |
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Injury in South Africa was yet another cruel blow to a young man who had fought back from a long period of enforced lay-off through injury. |
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I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. |
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Dozens of dairy cows are being locked away without sunlight for a year under cruel zero-grazing techniques. |
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Atman's ancestors left their homeland due to the cruel exploitation by the zamindars, besides excruciating poverty and disease. |
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The result is a master class in comedy, in all its cruel, larkish, obsessive creativity. |
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A youth club set up for children in a deprived seaside resort has been closed after cruel thieves stole a haul of their equipment. |
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Was he not actually the sensitive, caring pet I knew and loved, but rather a cruel, remorseless murderer? |
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Nature is remorselessly cruel and none more remorseless than the slugs and snails that are currently trying to eat my lettuces before I can. |
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I saw her, beset by snarling jackals of humanity, sniffing and yelping their cruel cries. |
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Having to resort to a cruel and unusual punishment adds a moral relativity that is profoundly provocative. |
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It makes bureaucratic booby traps, laid down by government civil servants at their final destination, cruel indeed. |
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Such behavior is cruel and wrongful according not only to the law, but to common sense. |
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Everyone can turn a blind eye to the woundless slashes of the lying tongue, the cruel word, the baleful onslaught. |
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The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association says it is cruel to keep the working dog locked up for eight hours each day. |
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We call on you to immediately withdraw your cruel and defamatory statements made against our client. |
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As emotionally complex an issue as cloning animals is, it's also dangerous, perhaps cruel and illegal, and almost totally unregulated. |
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Earlier settlers are cruel and violent, unable to understand the white man's burden in Africa or the value of fairness and bureaucracy. |
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How heartening it is in these cruel and trite times to know that real talent may still receive its just reward. |
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Yes, Carmel told herself, he looks like a young jungle cat, proud and cruel amidst a throng of deer ripe for his taking. |
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First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets. |
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What once looked like a funny stunt now could quite easily be perceived as a cruel joke on a sick senior. |
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The scenes of appalling neglect we witnessed in these sheds were abhorrently cruel. |
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To those walking past his room he was like any other frail old man teetering at his walking frame like a branch swaying in a cruel breeze. |
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This was a sparkling show, saucy in its depictions perhaps but rarely intentionally cruel. |
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A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder. |
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Outside, the plane trees along the street have the same sameness about them, pollarded in a way I used to think cruel. |
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Her would-be husband had a reputation among the men as a quietly authoritative man, a demanding but not cruel commander. |
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Most Austrians and many other Europeans abhor capital punishment as cruel and inhumane. |
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But his live show is much more casually cruel, and no matter how sensitive a subject, nothing is taboo for his one-liners. |
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During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia. |
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He conceded to the Evening Press that in a way he was glad not to have witnessed the cruel knockout blow, which has left the popular boxer battling for his life. |
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To see the adaptive benefits of depression, it helps to consider certain cruel but illuminating studies. |
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Brutalized prison guards contributed to the misery, mistreating the mentally ill and administering cruel interrogations. |
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His later books drew heavily from experiences and people he encountered at the bar, including the cruel captain in The Sea-Wolf. |
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Because during those times that were so cruel and so dark, those small acts of kindness were beacons of light. |
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Olson, not only a cruel but also a boastful man, narrated to Peter the story of his horrific crimes. |
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At worst, Spencer resorted to cruel and violent physical abuse. |
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I crave snow-topped mountains, dreary wastes, and the cruel Northern sea with its hard horizons at the edge of the world where infinite space begins. |
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Marber was a stand-up comedian and his quips and quick-fire repartee are deftly handled by the four actors, who bring out comedy in the pain and the pathos in the cruel barbs. |
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For as long as anyone can remember, Indonesian supporters have been infamous, rabid in their encouragement of winners and cruel in their criticism of the vanquished. |
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It sounds cruel, but during one long hot summer I did once shock a blind camellia into flowering by withholding water for as long as I felt the plant could bear it. |
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If it is true I can not understand that anybody can be so cruel and cold-hearted. |
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If dinner parties aren't your speed and you'd rather ignore the cruel world by building a pillow fort in your living room and eating a wheel of Brie, just Shay Cheese. |
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Their goal is to mobilize women who see guns as the most terrifying way cruel fate sends death to shockingly ruin our lives. |
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The humour arises from razor-sharp observation but is never cruel. |
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The Italian has been one of the best keepers in English football for quite a while now and it would be cruel if he were to spend the majority of this season on the bench. |
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The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy. |
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When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation. |
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After a cruel dressing down from their former group leader, Jeff, they all dejectedly sign. |
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Iran has also succumbed over the course of a cruel century, in large part because of the depredations of the Pahlavi dynasty. |
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Ideologically, they turn in on themselves, becoming more regressive and irrational in their justifications and often more cruel in their political actions. |
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We know that employing a child of school age in such demanding labor is cruel. |
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It was a cynical and duplicitous ploy to put a kindly face on a cruel and selfish policy. |
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There was a cruel irony in him being killed from above by an errant bomb dropped by an American B-1 bomber. |
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To say that not being of sound mind makes the process of execution cruel means that the sedatives that are used prior to lethal injections are potentially unconstitutional. |
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We are strong in our accomplishments, yet by some cruel irony we possess soft sensitive bodies and extraordinarily tall buildings. |
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While the comparison between Joffrey and Justin may seem cruel, it may not be so farfetched. |
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Our feeble attempts to push back the Grim Reaper only sharpen its cruel bite, not dull it. |
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The rebels attack remote western provinces whose local governments are riddled with corruption, inefficiency and the effects of a cruel caste system. |
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Now suffering from lupus, a cruel disease which attacks the body's immune system, she has a quick wit and air of irreverence that still make her a delight to interview. |
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Forcing those fired to stay on until September in order to get their severance, they said, seemed particularly cruel. |
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Tormented by a gang of three girls, the bright 12-year-old hanged herself from her bunkbed to escape their cruel taunts. |
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There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities. |
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The practice of setting dogs onto animals for sport is cruel and barbaric and should remain history. |
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How cruel and kindless the terrorists can be, that picture is in front of us. |
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Not to those in power, not to the cruel and inhumane, not to the wealthy. |
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The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find. |
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Life was neither fair nor unfair, neither cruel nor uncruel. Rather it was a tangible, real thing, precious, and not easily affordable. |
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Poor Mr. Orme! I am sorry he is not well. It is cruel in you, Lucy, at this time, to say that his illness is owing to his love of me. |
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He also had a reputation for cruelty in a particularly cruel conflict. |
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Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further. |
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Like the Turk, whose military janisaries and bashaws rule all in their clerkless and cruel way. |
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But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. |
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Although his action was egregious and cruel, I'm not sure if it is litigable. |
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She was a workingwoman, when she could get a card that's a triple cruel and unusual punishment. |
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Beginning in 1822, slaves in Mississippi were protected by law from cruel and unusual punishment by their owners. |
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Such was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal. |
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Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. |
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Opponents of the measure, Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting, called such tactics cruel and unsporting. |
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The Louisiana Black Code of 1806 made the cruel punishment of slaves a crime, but masters and overseers were seldom prosecuted for such acts. |
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I cannot believe that Christ himself intended that his religion should be so inelastic, so hard and fast, so cruel as you imply. |
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Listen, honeybunch, I don't want to be cruel, but you've got to think of everything. |
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Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. |
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The execution itself was often involving torture with cruel methods such as the breaking wheel. |
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This has helped to create an image of the Spanish conquistadores as cruel in the extreme. |
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Today, it's worlds away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. |
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The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed. |
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In reality, Dickens maintained, Indians were dirty, cruel, and constantly fighting among themselves. |
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Their hardihood is evident in their wild appearance, and they are beings who are cruel to their children on the very day they are born. |
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To keep their dreams alive, Chico and Rita travel to America in search of fame and fortune but Lady Luck can be a cruel mistress. |
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He has much more to say of the cruel problems of the small, land-poor families and the sharecroppers than I knew from my own experience. |
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Now Mars has always been worshipped by the Goths with cruel rites, and captives were slain as his victims. |
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James thought it was cruel for the fraternity members to make the pledge think his father had died suddenly and refused to play along. |
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The story of his career shows that Augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself. |
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This philosopher king contrasts sharply with the cruel tyrant, who plays a memorable role in other parts of the Histories. |
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Then decimalisation came, one cruel, and cold night, bringing with it litres, 10 pences and metatarsals. |
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Earlier historians such as Austin Poole and Richard Southern considered Henry as a cruel, draconian ruler. |
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The conditions of humans found were catastrophic, as well the treatment of the animals was found cruel. |
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In 1907 members discussed the cruel use of the bearing rein on horses, used to hold the animal's head in the desired position. |
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He argued cuttingly, his biting satire did not shrink at insults, and his expressions could be rude and cruel. |
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He believed that the actions of a state, however cruel or ruthless they may be, must contribute towards the common good of a society. |
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But towards the end, as only lovers can, she became quite mean and cruel to me. |
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In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. |
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That's why their emancipation is such a threat to cruel patriarchal power. |
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White phosphorus has been condemned by human rights organizations as cruel and inhumane because it causes severe burns. |
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He was a cruel king who was feared and hated by his subjects. |
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They further argue that, while hunting with hounds may cause suffering, controlling fox numbers by other means is even more cruel. |
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Many animal welfare groups, campaigners and activists believe that fox hunting is unfair and cruel to animals. |
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Shakespeare's Richard was a cruel, vindictive and irresponsible king, who attained a semblance of greatness only after his fall from power. |
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The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal. |
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He is described as tall, black and bristly, and as seeming cruel and fierce. |
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Steel yourself, then, firmly to withstand attacks from the cruel and unfeeling. |
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Caracalla was a cruel man, and was pursued by the guilt of his brother's murder. |
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But he felt, later, a little compunction. He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione. He wanted to recompense her, to make it up. |
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It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins. |
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This claim seems a cruel indictment of both Hughes and the Migration, even as it seeks to reify Hughes's reputation as being the poet of the urban black masses. |
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What was disappointing was the cruel take-off of Susan Boyle, the remark, You''re too little to think to the smallest pirate and the use of water pistols on the audience. |
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Russell also disliked Alys's mother, finding her controlling and cruel. |
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And Rab Stewart can't believe someone was cruel enough to tie his new pal inside a plastic bag and chuck him in a wheelie bin like a piece of rubbish. |
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Yet I still wouldn't outlaw such cruel and repressive clothing, as long as it's the women themselves choosing to wear burkas and they're not being coerced by family members. |
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For elephants this will mean cruel training methods such as the use of bullhooks and electric shock devices, and extended periods of confinement and chaining. |
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I don't find it funny, I find it a bit sick, and I find it very cruel, and I just wish people would get on with their own lives and let me get on with mine. |
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The quasi-death of insanity with its small periodic remissions, its deviations into good sense, even into brilliant insight, was almost more cruel really than outright death. |
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You do not have to be an antiabortionist to recognise a cruel irony when some families are desperate for a child and others cannot wait to be rid of an unborn baby. |
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For elephants, in some cases, this will mean cruel training methods such as the use of bullhooks and electric shock devices, and extended periods of confinement and chaining. |
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But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. |
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Hunting is a cruel, blood sport,'' is the mantra of the gun-haters. |
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The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke. |
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Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence. |
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Las Casas described him as exceedingly cruel towards the natives. |
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They justified it as less cruel than the free labor of the North. |
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Moreover, there is no evidence that Han Chinese, who were considered people of the bottom of Yuan society by some research, were suffered a particularly cruel abuse. |
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After a cruel winter, he headed south and landed at Straumfjord. |
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Some countries, such as Germany have banned specific types of fishing, and the British RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish. |
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