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While that “almost” reflects a gap too wide for Trump’s opponents to bridge, it can be said that February has, thus far, been cruel to the US president, though he clearly is no innocent victim.
The same can be said of using a MOAB to obliterate a few dozen fanatically cruel but relatively insignificant fighters lurking in a tunnel complex in the Spin Ghar mountains.
As a child, mastering the cruel art of elé belé was important.
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.
But drawing a line under the enlargement process would be both a missed opportunity for the EU and a cruel blow to those countries in the Balkans and elsewhere for whom the prospect of membership is an important incentive for reform and renewal.
The world could not have prevented Yugoslavia’s spiral into civil war, but it might have made it less cruel by helping to negotiate terms of separation earlier.
A year ago, a German judge ruled that religious circumcision was a cruel practice that inflicted bodily harm on boys and was therefore illegal – a view supported by many commentators in the media.
Inevitably, the cruel lack of means was pointed out time and again.
This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it – and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.
China’s decision to withhold crucial data is not only cruel; it also breaches the country’s international obligations.
The debt is used to dominate people, and the impact is cruel and abusive.
Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, draws on recent research in history, psychology, cognitive science, economics, and sociology to argue that our era is less violent, less cruel, and more peaceful than any previous period of human existence.
It is a cruel irony that the US-Russia agreement on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons meant that inspectors could gain access to precisely the locations where aid workers carrying food and medical supplies have been repeatedly barred.
According to India’s Defense Minister, A.K. Anthony, presumably an expert on butter as well as guns, Bush’s statement was “a cruel joke.”
Stalin’s regime could be compared to a cruel, sadistic father who keeps his children in a state of fear and submission.
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.
Literary works in which people who committed cruel, bloody acts were transformed into vampires became popular from 1820 onwards.
Trump is rude and often cruel, and even many of his supporters seem to realize that they wouldn’t want their own children to emulate him.
As consumers, we have the power – and the moral obligation – to refuse to support farming methods that are cruel to animals and bad for us.
As two observers recently described it, Daulat Beg Oldie was a kind of transfer point for goods to be loaded on to pack ponies “for the cruel journey over the Saser La into the more hospitable Shyok river valley” leading to “Leh, Turtok, or Srinagar [in Kashmir].”
There is cruel irony in the observation that in the country which Jinnah created in the name of Islam, that noble faith itself now constitutes the principal challenge to the very survival of the state.
If they were, the West would need only to wait for its adversaries to collapse under the weight of their own contradictions: Russia’s overestimation of its means, and, in the case of the Islamic State, the consequences of its appallingly cruel behavior.
The simple answer, for many, is that market reforms have been too quick and too cruel.
This extends to suicide bombing, an immoral and cruel act of terror.
And even with respect to immigration policy, there is a profound difference between the Trump administration’s mass deportations, however cruel and stupid, and mass murder.
It may seem cruel or cold-hearted to focus on such environmental outcomes in the wake of vast human loss and suffering.
As Europe faces off with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, a larger and ultimately more important battle is taking place within Russia itself, one that pits the country’s rich culture against the cruel mendacity of its politics.
These problems are due not to immigrants, but to our immigration controls, which are not only costly and cruel, but also ineffective and counterproductive.
After all, despite its cruel and fanatical regime, Iran is not North Korea.
To its credit, the British egg industry accepted the situation, and developed new and less cruel methods of keeping hens.
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