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686 examples of Cruel in a sentence

The tsar is once more cruel and unpredictable; but he is ours, we know him.
Women and DevelopmentCOPENHAGEN – A girl born in South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa faces a cruel double burden.
As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 74, “The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”
Taylor sees the law as offering her a cruel choice: either end her life when she still finds it enjoyable, but is capable of killing herself, or give up the right that others have to end their lives when they choose.
Worse, malnutrition and undernutrition are part of a cruel cycle, in that they are both causes and effects of poverty.
They have the potential to end a cruel cycle of poverty and malnourishment that can last for generations.
Moreover, their triumphalist rejoicing is a cruel reminder that when the oppressed become liberated, they can very easily turn into oppressors themselves.
Wars always have unintended consequences and cruel ironies.
One couple from Sweden explained that they want to avoid their child being forced into “a specific gender mold,” saying that it is cruel “to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead.”
Nevertheless, July was a cruel month for Pakistan, and more seem certain to follow.
This is cynical and cruel; moreover, it is dangerously wrong.
As Karen Dawn points out in her book Thanking the Monkey, solitary confinement is considered cruel punishment for humans.
Yet the same Dayan, who in 1970 said that “the only peace negotiations are those where we settle the land and we build, and we settle, and from time to time we go to war,” was forced by cruel reality to admit that the best security to which Israel can aspire is that based on peace with its neighbors.
This is a cruel deception.
Practically speaking, this would overturn the balance of power in the Middle East, with grave consequences well beyond the region; morally, it would be a cruel betrayal of the Syrian opposition and a boon to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Justice Stephen Breyer agreed that to spend 33 years in prison awaiting execution is cruel.
For example, some supporters of the ban have argued that circumcision violates Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Budget room will be scarce for many other worthwhile programs, among them: aid to poor countries, where the US is scandalously stingy; paying dues in arrears to the UN; creating jobs for mothers who will, under the cruel welfare "reform" Clinton signed in 1996, be denied public assistance for themselves and their children.
Ours is a region of cruel contrasts.
Finally, Colombia’s unresolved and cruel conflict persists.
Saddam was venal and cruel, but his regime was predominantly secular.
Having been commissioned by all-powerful Zeus and designed to his cruel specifications by Hephaestus, the god of invention, Pandora was a lifelike android created to look like a bewitching maiden.
It would be a cruel irony if, just as Africa begins to succeed, its prospects are cut short by a crisis beyond its control.
The best partial explanation that I have seen starts with the philosopher Ernest Gellner’s cruel observation about left-wing academics.
If they do, September will be slightly less cruel than it otherwise is shaping up to be.
For example, in a 2002 Virginia case, the high court ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded is forbidden by the American Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment."
Uruguay suffered cruel stagnation from the middle 1950s to the 1970s, brought about by rampant protectionism, irresponsible public finance, and tight exchange controls.
Far from condemning this cruel approach, the international community – and Europe, in particular – offered only a muted response.
In her devastating new book Mao: The Unknown Story , Jung Chang (author of the international bestseller Wild Swans ) exposes startling new details that prove beyond doubt that Mao was a tyrannical, cruel hypocrite whose disregard for human lives and suffering surpassed that of even Stalin and Hitler.
Yet events in the 1970’s put that faith to a cruel test.
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