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Brutally in sentence

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After the collapse in 1945 of the Japanese empire, which had ruled quite brutally over the whole of Korea since 1910, the Soviet Red Army occupied the north, and the US occupied the south.
The army brutally suppressed any opposition to Bururi rule.
They were brutally suppressed, but the sanctions nonetheless provoked an internal battle within Qadaffi’s coterie that pitted hard liners committed to the anti-Western crusade against pragmatists who promoted integration into the global economy.
As the two lawyers were traveling on a bus, a gang of men, some of them wielding metal pipes, boarded it and brutally assaulted them.
Such policy may be brutally effective in the short term; in the long term, it is certain to be costly for Turkey.
While this brutally matter-of-fact tone can make readers uneasy (indeed, it was one reason why I took so long to read the book), we cannot afford to be ignorant of the truth, even – or perhaps especially – if it makes us squirm.
Another 12,000 have been brutally tortured.
Its own challenge lies in reforming the entire oil industry, which for years has been brutally and irresponsibly exploited by Chinese and Malaysian companies, with devastating environmental consequences.
What is true is that the Israelis lacked a coherent war plan, so that even their most purposeful bombing came off as brutally destructive (though with a deterrence payoff, as Syria’s immobility showed).
On January 28, a peaceful but “unauthorized” demonstration by opposition parties was brutally repressed by the police and three presidential candidates were arrested for the day.
Last week brought news of yet another murder of a women’s rights activist in Pakistan; evidence that the Egyptian military may be deliberately using sexual assault to deter women from demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square; a horrific report from the New York-based Women’s Media Center about Syrian government forces’ use of sexual violence and gang rape; and a video of a Taliban commander brutally executing a woman for adultery as his fellow soldiers and villagers cheered.
She was then kept in the dungeon by her husband’s family and brutally tortured for months, because she refused to work as a prostitute.
In a world that is changing so rapidly and brutally, you need stability and reassurance.
Look no farther than Syria, where one part of that legacy – the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Levant into British and French spheres of influence even while the Great War still raged – is coming to a brutally violent end.
Yet every attempt by Greece even to raise the issue was brutally rebuffed by its counterparties.
The prevailing explanation – a brutally cold winter – is wearing so thin that everyone should be able to see through it.
HELSINKI – It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions – often quickly and brutally.
While he promoted parliamentary rule in England, ended the civil war, and allowed a degree of religious toleration, he also supported the trial and execution of Charles I and brutally conquered Ireland in response to a perceived threat from an alliance of Irish Catholics and English Royalists.
Demonstrations by bus drivers, school teachers, women’s rights activists, and students have been brutally suppressed, with dozens of arrests.
The absence of laws mandating force to block separatist activity has never stopped Chinese authorities from brutally persecuting individuals and groups who have called for an independent Tibet or Xinjiang.
The elites have fought back, often brutally, to protect their property.
The Nazis looked at Jews as a strain of “microbes,” and it was for this reason that they wanted to destroy them so brutally and meticulously.
Designated an “apostate,” his business was burned down, his brother was brutally murdered, his wife and children fled to neighboring villages, and Shabbir, together with his elderly father, took the long, cruel road, via Iran and Turkey, to imagined safety in civilized Europe.
After going to the cinema, she and her boyfriend were beaten, before she was brutally assaulted and attacked with an iron rod for more than an hour.
Officials undertaking vulnerability assessments at Moria are left asking not whether someone has been raped, but how brutally and how often.
If protecting their government’s religious purity – and their own ill-gotten gains – required brutally repressing their own people and returning Iran to the dark ages, the extremists who would be left in charge would eagerly do it.
The state then brutally crushes the militias, making matters worse, and politicians manipulate the actors for their own purposes.
An entire population is being brutally punished.
The Baltic countries were brutally brought back into the Soviet fold, and Poland and others were reduced to satellite states.
As the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the US brutally reminded us, a lethal threat need not come from equivalent military hardware.
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