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Brutality in sentence

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Students of international politics, especially in Canada and the US, wonder whether the show, by stressing the role of sheer brutality, encourages a“realist” vision of the world.
But then there is the brutality of the prison.
The Endangered Arab ChristianBRUSSELS – The recent abductions of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Paul Yazigi, reflect not only the increasing brutality of Syria’s civil war, but also the escalating crisis for Christians across the Arab world – one that could end up driving them away altogether.
Can Assad really hide behind the notion of territorial integrity or political independence to forestall an effort to stop his illegal brutality toward Syria’s citizens?
The brutality of bilateralism prompted US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to draft the Atlantic Charter in 1941.
As it stands, victims of rape and domestic violence in the country are often blamed for the brutality they have endured, and face intense social pressure to settle cases, instead of pursuing them to trial.
Given the brutality of the apartheid era, that would have never worked in my homeland.
As so often happens with satire and allegory, Paquim’s cartoonists were able to sneak into print quite radical critiques of the military regime – its brutality, arbitrary arrests, and censorship – in graphic form, right under the nose of the state’s humorless generals.
Reports of Vlad's cruel method - by no means unusual at the time - were already in circulation during his lifetime, and Corvinus probably gave his brutality a particularly bloodthirsty spin.
It has become more rigorous in it s applications due to the influence ofmilitant Islam, which seeks to use religious texts to legitimize escalating brutality, especially against women.
A good example is the international effort to confront the Islamic State’s malign brutality in Iraq and Syria.
Given the brutality of the Japanese occupations of Korea and China, one is naturally inclined to sympathize with Japan’s former victims.
The government's brutality then, and all my experiences since, have convinced me that without a proper accounting for those crimes, China's future will remain in doubt.
Citizens are coarsened by the casual brutality meted out to a minority, and become inured to it.
ISIS’s brutality against its female captives was intended to humiliate the enemy and send a warning to anyone who did not adhere to its extremist, radical interpretation of Islam.
In the short term, they are a public assertion of women’s autonomy; after so much propaganda and brutality, many in the region no longer thought such behavior was possible.
To make matters worse, there has been a steady stream of migration-related violence across Europe, from an arson attack on a planned refugee shelter in Germany to police brutality against migrants in Macedonia and Hungary.
There was no limit on the number of witnesses the prosecution called to testify about the same gruesome story of Serbian aggression and brutality.
And throughout the region, regimes have closed off channels for political expression, and responded to popular protests with increasing brutality.
Ideology can serve as an excuse or justification, but it is rarely the main source of individual acts of brutality.
Instead, the world is responding to graphic images of unspeakable brutality – torture by the regime or executions carried out by the opposition – with sterile shows of outrage.
Some people may be more disposed to brutality than others, but aggressive impulses can be activated with surprising ease.
The labor ministry went to Khaled al-Azhary, a Brother who was deputy head of the Workers Union and a victim of police brutality in 2010.
In the United States, mothers have been active in protesting police brutality in the Black Lives Matter movement.
But Yeltsin’s bold decree was, in some ways, superfluous: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), once a fearsome organizational weapon, had already been decimated by its own incompetence and brutality, to the point that the public was simply indifferent to it.
It was a moment of truth, a cleansing from within of the brutality of Stalinism.
They made excuses for the brutality that lay behind Ben Ali’s policy, endorsing the results without observing and questioning the means by which they were achieved.
The secessionists hark back to eighteenth-century English brutality and claim that Scotland will be able to keep all of its North Sea oil and shed its share of the UK’s debt.
The rigidity and brutality of America’s behavior – resulting in many times more civilian deaths than occurred on September 11 – have blocked any useful intervention by countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or the United Arab Emirates.
As a recent US State Department report points out, Nigerian citizens’ “grievances regarding poverty, government and security-force corruption, and police impunity and brutality [have] created a fertile ground for recruiting Boko Haram members.”
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