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Well, 80 percent of the men in Lesotho worked in the mines over the border, in brutal conditions.
When it comes to brutal murderers who post their beheading videos, the Internet has created a new kind of crowd.
While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other colonists he ruled, to the point that he was removed from power and thrown in jail.
She had already been taught the brutal lesson that there was no bathroom door at preschool with a sign on it that welcomed people like her.
Space is cold, brutal and unforgiving.
We've also had news that an ally of the brutal Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad has also got offshore companies.
And after three more hard, really brutal field seasons, the quarry came to look like this.
Anna was born in 1083, shortly after her father seized control of the Roman Empire following a decade of brutal civil wars and revolts.
I've spoken with veterans who've told me that one day they're in a brutal firefight in Afghanistan where they saw carnage and death, and just three days later, they found themselves toting an ice chest to their kid's soccer game.
Lots of people are terrified to step into leadership because of how much scrutiny they receive and how brutal we are with leaders.
MB: That's beautiful, thank you. (Applause) So you all are doing work that forces you to face some brutal, painful realities on a daily basis.
I had just gone through the brutal experience of losing seven loved ones in the same month.
His campaigns in France and his brutal invasion of Scotland drained the treasury, and his attempt to pay for it by debasing the coinage led to constant inflation.
Sound brutal ... but perhaps familiar?
Critics say it's a formula for a brutal work environment.
This era kindled widespread paranoia and fear throughout Bradbury’s home country of the United States, amplified by the suppression of information and brutal government investigations.
Through her research, Wells showed that these murders were actually a deliberate, brutal tactic to control or punish black people who competed with whites.
Through his brutal and shocking honesty, Machiavelli sought to shatter popular delusions about what power really entails.
"Armstrong explained the brutal reality of their situation: they paid 1,500 shillings in rent, about 20 bucks a month, a relatively high price for a Kenyan shantytown, and they could not afford to be late with the money.
18 minutes is an absolutely brutal time limit, so I'm going to dive straight in, right at the point where I get this thing to work.
We meet women from all over the world whose own governments refuse to protect them from brutal domestic violence or repressive social norms.
From Australia's brutal offshore detention camps to Italy's criminalization of aid to migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, first-world countries have gone to deadly lengths to keep refugees from reaching our shores.
And I continued my career with the United Nations after my diagnosis, going to work for two years in Angola, a country recovering from 27 years of brutal civil war.
It's kind of a brutal quote.
It was the brutal realization, the first morning, that the Indian students were better than me.
In 2007 I went to Liberia, where a group of my friends and I did an independent, self-funded film, still in progress, on a very legendary and brutal war-lord named General Butt Naked.
Right, like cutting lawns is brutal.
The same with the whole things on mania and stress and depression, unless it is so clinically brutal, man.
I mean, it's quite brutal.
From Morocco to Lesotho, young people are rising up against entrenched monarchies: in Egypt and Sudan, against brutal dictatorships; in Uganda and Ethiopia, against powerful militarized states with quasi-democratic veneers; in South Africa, where this image was taken, and Burundi, against democratically elected leaders who have done little to improve the conditions for ordinary people.
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