To his first wife, he revealed a cold-heartedness that bordered on brutality. |
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This is all the more surprising considering his brutality, corruption and human rights abuses were virtually unparalleled. |
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For a film that carries so much brutality and pain this is a surprisingly easy watch. |
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They did their work well and acquired the fearsome reputation of brutality and violence. |
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The narratives repeat images of humiliation, brutality, and the sheer randomness of tragedy among people who have few allies and fewer options. |
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There are no spectacular displays of brutality here, and the workings of force show themselves not to be reducible to physical violence alone. |
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The Trial Chamber heard testimony from about 30 witnesses who survived the brutality, and who reported the frequent killings and torture. |
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London's organised-crime underworld, in all its diversity and brutality, is the setting for this edgy contemporary thriller. |
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Instead, there are signs of growing public revulsion over assembly-line executions and rampant police brutality and corruption. |
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Their racism, misogyny and emotional brutality become unbelievable in an English setting. |
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The incident cast the police in an ugly light and their brutality was questioned by many. |
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Nor should anyone be surprised if little boys grow up with a liking for the apparent brutality they have witnessed at an ice-hockey game. |
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Merciless in its intensity, uncompromising in its brutality, this film will rock you to your core. |
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Dozens were arrested and charged with illegal assembly amid accusations of police brutality. |
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So wittingly or not, these corporations are helping to prop up a government notorious for its sheer awfulness and brutality. |
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The Spanish assault upon the Aztecs is a presiding symbol of Western brutality and colonialism. |
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Instead, like a Mafia boss, he provided protection, backup, and a reputation for brutality in return for a cut of the take. |
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We take note of the brutality of the conditions and the inevitable backwardness of the semi-rural area. |
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He acted with extreme brutality against separatist tendencies in the Caucasus. |
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In the murky world of seventeenth-century espionage and plotting, casual brutality was all too common fare. |
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This case is the epitome of the brutality, the barbarism, and the cruelty of state regulated nonviolent behavior. |
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Keith specialised in depraved characters who committed acts of extreme brutality while sermonising on the virtues of a good and moral life. |
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This neatly falls into the highly visualized, routinized metanarrative of black female survivorship from black male brutality. |
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Both in Europe and in China, the social order of feudal society showed the brutality, benightedness and hypocrisy of the feudal ruling classes. |
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We rejected the brutality, the propaganda, the misbegotten wars, the imperial arrogance. |
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No, well I don't think that anybody's misjudged the Iraqi dictator and the brutality of the man. |
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The level of black-on-black brutality and destruction is sometimes shocking in this novel, but not unbelievable. |
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A number of aspects can signify physical violence, but nothing matches the capability of this combination for sledgehammer brutality. |
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Wherever he goes, Han-gi seems to cause pain and wreak havoc, with something of a supernatural tinge to his unreasoning brutality. |
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The march has been described as a creative response to the unspeakable brutality that has gripped the country. |
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The shock of inhuman brutality was sufficient to traumatize the inhabitants into submission. |
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It was a clearly planned killing with murderous intent executed with brutality and determination. |
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Gone are the times when tensions would erupt in a blizzard of savage brutality. |
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It's a powerful song, whose repeat chorus has done more against police brutality than a quorum of ombudsmen could have achieved. |
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It is the language of the video nasty that Gibson uses here, and the point about the brutality is made long before the punishment ends. |
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Now we've added a new element of potential violence and brutality into the aircraft cabin. |
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Though he remains oafishly convinced what happened was consensual, it seems clear that what happened was an act of sheer brutality. |
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Most of them died of starvation, disease or brutality at the hands of the prison authorities. |
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Sentimentality always cloaks brutality, as Jung once wisely observed, and wolves in sheep's clothing are always ready for the big chance. |
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For example, his brutality is made out to be a personal thing rather than indicative of conditions in army stockades in general. |
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He endorsed unionisation and protested several cases of police brutality in Miami. |
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I was reminded of the marchers in Selma, wearing their Sunday best, dignified in the face of brutality. |
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This superficially mawkish fairy tale is subverted by a remarkable combination of comic brutality, acute formalism, and inconsolable sorrow. |
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Though the film's homophobia, bullying and brutality are fictional, they resonate with truth. |
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Instead he relies on brutality, scatological humour and a pervasive aura of coarseness. |
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Instead of highlighting the brutality sustaining the incumbent regimes in power, these analysts blame the victims. |
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They criticize the film's lack of realism and its failure to portray comprehensively the true brutality of the death camps. |
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What's different, at least for journalists in Iraq today, is that the viciousness and brutality is a much greater inhibitor to work. |
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He is despised in the West because of the inhuman brutality of his dictatorship. |
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Why has the world shown me nothing but wickedness, filth, and brutality till now? |
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Winning and keeping control of an empire here would require finesse and tact, brutality and astuteness. |
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When we deplore the conqueror's extreme brutality, we must remember that all great warriors of the times were brutal. |
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It means as well that the American population must be inured to violence and brutality, both abroad and at home. |
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The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed. |
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Capital punishment has been outlawed most places, and even where it is allowed, brutality of that kind would not be countenanced. |
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The film follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six year Supreme Court battle. |
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We would probably not today know of police coercion, brutality, forced confessions and rigged trials. |
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The depiction of the brutality and fruitlessness of war leaves a lasting impact on the reader. |
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She showed no weakness, instead attaining her goals through cunning, skill, and brutality. |
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It preaches a message of racism, intolerance and brutality that flies in the face of this country's history and heritage. |
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It was carried out with considerable brutality and impersonality, where the victims were publicly defeminised and destroyed. |
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The length of their deliberations surprised me after the brutality of the crime. |
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Add to this a culture that glorifies violence and brutality, and the mix becomes explosive. |
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Rumors of brutality increased the cache of despots, augmenting their income through the collection of protection money and taxes. |
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The book vividly described the wretched conditions of Mexican rural life and the brutality of the revolution. |
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Few victims survived the extreme brutality and the severest punishments inflicted. |
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He's balanced in his acknowledgement of the world's brutality and his detestation of its cruelty. |
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But though it may be trivial in the face of war's absurd brutality, perhaps nothing makes as much sense as the pure beauty of Japanese art. |
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A society where the social divide between haves and have-nots has become a chasm is a society that breeds violence and brutality. |
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A mass exodus is the surest evidence you will find for the brutality of a particular country. |
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The riots were an explosion of raw anger against the racism and brutality of the police, and the continued denial of basic civil rights. |
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From the NFL and NASCAR to boardrooms, survivors are training a new generation to end the brutality. |
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An important reason for this is that those who spread the poison of hatred and brutality have not been reined in during the last fifty years or so. |
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Kareem and Samir's experience is a microcosm of the brutality of the Egyptian regime. |
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New faces fill empty spaces where a battalion of fallen MPs once sat, and the arbitrary brutality of a reshuffle reminds the ranks who wears the steel toecaps of power. |
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In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, he was a piker next to that tyrant. |
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The king's undeniable ruthlessness can be seen either as needless brutality, or as necessitous firmness in his utter determination to achieve total victory. |
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Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence. |
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Oliver, a symbol of the oppressiveness and brutality of Victorian child labor is in this adaptation merely a sad-eyed innocent whose innocence grows tiresome. |
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The upshot is to immerse oneself in a crash course on institutional racism and police brutality. |
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Still, it's depressing to think that outright brutality is now the test. |
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When it came to casting Escobar, di Stefano had to find a strong actor who could embody the brutality of the late kingpin. |
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This after a game that involved an all-in brawl, accusations of witch-craft and sorcery, and police brutality on a visiting national soccer squad. |
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For this Muslim-majority nation, secularism was not a momentary reaction to Pakistani brutality. |
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Charges of brutality, of savagery, have been laid at Simon's door, but perhaps this is the first time posterity has reproached him for ordinary honesty. |
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Inevitably, he's been given the less interesting of the two roles and does his best with it, hitting the requisite notes of sarcasm, brutality and integrity. |
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She was apparently horrified by Stalinist collectivism and its brutality. |
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Free votes can supplant villains with worse villains, corruption, and brutality with tyranny and enslavement of women. |
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She put her sixth-century royal French name and wealth to work for a safe and peaceful women's religious community over against the violence and brutality around her. |
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One faction contends violent games invite real-world brutality, and the other faction defends violent games as innocuous. |
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The continuous exposure to brutality has also steeled his resolve to soldier on, and his Gandhian belief that violence can never be the answer to violence. |
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The sound was close to being great all night but never quite clearing up enough to accentuate the brutality of the riffage permeating from the stage. |
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This glorious sport must be freed from brutality and foul play. |
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Yeah, you get a flavor of his brutality, you get a flavor of his family life, you get a flavor of him helping the people. |
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And we refuse to appease the aggression and brutality of evil men. |
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The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar. |
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He was also encouraged to display the virtues of chivalry, a code of conduct created by the clergy to curb the brutality of this order of knights. |
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There should be a right of intervention where it is necessary to stem large scale loss of life and to provide urgent protection against brutality and ethnic cleansing. |
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In those days, you got a lusty roar of animal brutality from the crowd. |
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It was a tacit condoning of torture, brutality and summary execution. |
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I portray Mecca as it really was, which means in all its hardness and brutality. |
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Over and over, they depict the brutality and avariciousness of Europeans and white males in the United States and present glorified portraits of other nations and cultures. |
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The problem is not with the discontinuities imposed by immigration, but with the fragmentation of the self caused by the brutality and horrors of the flight itself. |
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To those, mainly northerners, who denounced the brutality, others, often southerners, replied that the exemplary punishment was justified by its outcome. |
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Even wild flowers, a symbol for youthful spirit if ever there was one, are snuffed out by the brutality of the plains. |
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The beginning of forced collectivisation in the early 1930s was carried through with unprecedented brutality and resulted in unimaginable hardships for the countryside. |
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Zakir is a fearless and impetuous fighter, a former Guantanamo prisoner who earned a reputation for brutality on the battlefield. |
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The details differ but the intent is the same as in a high-profile case of police brutality. |
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But for some there remains a brutality here, a roughness born of systematic, racialized oppression and desperate poverty. |
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But this tidal wave of systematic brutality has resulted in only 30 convictions. |
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At the same time, Private Violence shows how much of domestic abuse is about control and manipulation rather than sheer brutality. |
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The novel paints a more detailed picture and asks questions about its oppression, brutality and corruption to which only the revolution could provide answers. |
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During the social polarisation under the Weimar Republic, Hitler's shock troops had terrorised the streets and gained a reputation for their brutality. |
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Logan apologized to the person he put in the hospital by his brutality, and now Logan is anxious for Dr. Balis to give him a psychological clean bill of health. |
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A published article compares state sponsored police brutality to the individual actions of a two-bit huckster on Youtube. |
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About police brutality, and the militarization of American police, and how the two have paired to victimize, mostly, black men. |
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Why did it feel important to you to have Rick shift into this mode where he can readily access his brutality? |
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Bold satirical initiatives have unmasked hypocrisy, corruption, and brutality in dictatorships across the world. |
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He ordered his followers to abstain from violence, and let the world see the brutality of the British empire on the peaceful yet disobedient Indians. |
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But his buffoonery was a side issue to his brutality and murderous tastes. |
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With equal firmness we should demand of the Arab governments and the Arab media their condemnation of barbarism, brutality and terrorism in their own communities. |
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Giving in to the demands of such a leader will, without question, invite greater aggression and brutality. |
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Tales like this, of sailors wandering the desert for miles searching for food and water, abound amid the brutality of the region. |
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But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs. |
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Then try to get a ticket for a Maple Leafs match, to watch the breakneck brutality in action. |
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The last six months have been a stark reminder of the brutality that lurks at the boundaries of civilized society. |
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But it was the theatrical brutality of the piece that took me aback. |
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He stood undauntedly against barbarity, brutality and injustice. |
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That is undefendable, inexcusable and inexplicable police brutality. |
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Cutler is no stranger to the brutality of the gridiron, having strapped on a jock and shoulder pads during his salad days as a high-school football player. |
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If Congress struggles to keep the lights on, how could it deal with issues as complex as police brutality? |
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The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads. |
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They contend that the protests are not anti-police brutality, but anti-police, period. |
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Such brutality will likely inspire fear and obedience among the overwhelmingly moderate Sunnis of Iraq, but not enthusiasm. |
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These factors contributed to the brutality of the Cromwell military campaign in Ireland. |
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Along with the music, the slow-motion of the sequence aestheticises the violence and brutality of the fight. |
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Commodus usually took part on gladiatorial combats, which often symbolized brutality and roughness. |
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While previous communal riots had been deadly, the scale and level of brutality was unprecedented. |
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In AD 393, during the Roman gladiator period, boxing was abolished due to excessive brutality. |
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When the Puritan leaders protested against this brutality, Carter sent four of them home in chains. |
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His divorces, brutality, atheism, and association with the boxing world made Queensberry an unpopular figure in London high society. |
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The rally extended its full support to Kashmiris people in time of Indian's brutality and inhumanness. |
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Moreover, they were shocked by the brutality and behavior of the German Landsknechts during the sack of Rome. |
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One exception is French Polynesia, where, in many parts, cetaceans are met with great brutality. |
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And if the others began to disappear from the scene, well, there's also plenty of sexual scuttlebutt to counterbalance the brutality. |
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Yermak, the embodiment of Cossack freewill, bravery, and brutality, grew famous for his exploits on the Volga. |
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At the same time that these works debunk the grand claims of a Goya-esque political art, they intensify the brutality of the representations. |
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The brutality of Dothraki culture is actually a red herring. |
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To extract supplies from the natives, he employed excessive brutality, thereby provoking their hostility and making supplies harder to get. |
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He is reported as saying, 'The film prettifies the tragedy, the horror and the brutality of the slave trade. |
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Junior and his brother Rager belong to a gang that shuns brutality, putting them at odds with the rest of the warriors on the streets. |
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Edward responded with severe brutality against Bruce's allies and supporters. |
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This brutality, though, rather than helping to subdue the Scots, had the opposite effect, and rallied growing support for Bruce. |
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Berlin argues that critics complain if the treatment emphasizes historical brutality, or if it glosses over the harshness to highlight the emotional impact of slavery. |
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Al-Sheikh pointed to the brutality and unacceptability of certain acts carried out by IS, such as burning people, which he described as a great offense. |
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Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, questioned why Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups remained silent in the face of the ugly brutality. |
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Otherwise, the sudden contact with the world of brutality and hopelessness depicted in these apolitically moral novels would stun the reader into numbness. |
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The brutality of the Massacre of Glencoe sped acceptance by the clans. |
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New and powerful forms of urban activism have developed around the crises of homelessness, AIDS, police brutality, overdevelopment, environmental hazards, and queer-bashing. |
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Black civilization passes then through brutality and superstition, through the primogenial rites of deadly exorcism carried out by the Congo witch doctor. |
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The extent of Cromwell's brutality in Ireland has been strongly debated. |
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Separatist movements in the provinces of Aceh and Papua have led to armed conflict, and subsequent allegations of human rights abuses and brutality from all sides. |
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Indonesia's occupation of East Timor was marked by violence and brutality. |
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Mortal Kombat X first trailer offers a two-minute battle between Sub-Zero and Scorpion, with all the brutality and gore scenes that fans have come to enjoy from the franchise. |
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