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In opposition to almost every eurozone foreign minister or president, the chairman of Ecofin, and the European Central Bank’s president, Germany insisted that the International Monetary Fund be brought to the rescue of Greece, a brute denial of the principle of solidarity behind the euro.
Xi has gotten so caught up in his aggressive foreign policy that he has undermined his own diplomatic aspirations, failing to recognize that brute force is no substitute for leadership.
Intelligent diplomacy beats brute force every time.
If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.
The British justified their actions, carried out by brute force, with staggering hypocrisy and cant.
Far from having “friends in every corner of the world,” as he boasted in his speech, China has severely damaged its international reputation, alienated its partners, and left itself with only one real lever of power: brute force.
Otherwise, Xi will continue to use brute force to destabilize the Indo-Pacific further, possibly even starting a war.
Yet at the same time, this reliance on brute force carries an ominous message for the Communist Party of China (CPC) itself.
The massacre was carried out because the party has relied on brute force since its inception, including to seize power.
It should also serve as a warning to the CPC that its continued reliance on brute power to keep China’s citizens in line could eventually leave it on the ash heap of history.
The government then implied that the Sikh farmers were “anti-nationals” and therefore “terrorists,” and used brute force to quell peaceful protests.
Insofar as the Khmer Rouge ever had an intellectual justification for the horrors they committed in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, it lay in their belief that Cambodia had no need to participate in international markets and could, through sheer brute force, achieve autarky.
But if its plans meet resistance there from Russia or any other council member with veto power, America can always fall back on the default option: brute force and the mobilization of its allies.
One had to work like a brute at labour which was once a punishment for convicts; one left one's skin there oftener than was one's turn, all that without even getting meat on the table in the evening.
In the old man's time the miner lived in the mine like a brute, like a machine for extracting coal, always under the earth, with ears and eyes stopped to outward events.
Maheude was furious, and, after forbidding her daughter ever to see such a brute again, talked of going to Montsou to box his ears.
But the miner was no longer an ignorant brute, crushed within the bowels of the earth.
Ah! to live like a brute, to possess nothing, to scour the fields with the ugliest and dirtiest putter, and to be able to be happy!
When he found himself in shelter, in this profound calm of the earth, seized by satiety of violence, he had slept for two days the sleep of a brute, gorged and overcome; and the depression continued, he lived in a bruised state with bitter mouth and aching head, as after some tremendous spree.
"Hold your tongue, brute!
Such savagery was stupefying in an old invalid, who had lived like a worthy man, an obedient brute, opposed to new ideas.
As for me, with your permission I'll go perch on the bobstays under the bowsprit, and if we can get within a harpoon length, I'll harpoon the brute."
Through brute force alone, the submersible carved out a channel for itself.
"It is necessary to have an understanding with some of them, or we might be taken; but a man without honor is worse than a brute.
I did not like it, I can tell you; for there was neither stick nor stone about, and I knew that the brute was dangerous.
He found greater calm and better health in this labour of a brute which kept him bent all day long over invoices, over enormous additions, each figure of which he patiently added up.
Six months later, his Thursday visit had become, in his way of thinking, a duty: he went to the Arcade of the Pont Neuf, just as he went every morning to his office, that is to say mechanically, and with the instinct of a brute.
They had turned me into a docile brute with their tame benevolence and sickly tenderness.
The two together, the woman nervous and hypocritical, the man sanguineous and leading the life of a brute, formed a powerful couple allied.
So long as he had acted, he had gone straight before him, with the obstinacy and blindness of a brute.
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