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Cruelty in sentence

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It is difficult not to think of a special sort of sans-culottes, devoid of a soul, drunk on themselves and cruelty.
Reagan’s enduring status as a Republican icon has much to do with his ability to dole out cowboy cruelty with movie-star charm, though luck also played a role.
The wanton cruelty there is all too clearly symptomatic of a systemic failure.
The United Nations Security Council, supported by the Arab League, has authorized the use of all necessary means to protect Libyans from the cruelty of their own leaders.
It was an act of senseless cruelty – one that led to Liu’s death, in police custody, barely a month after he received his diagnosis.
We barely know our enemy, except for the intensity of his hatred and the depth of his cruelty.
Two decades after the Rwandan genocide, we continue to bear witness to human cruelty and horror – in Syria, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, for example.
Ochoa's sentence, apart from its extravagant cruelty, may ultimately cost taxpayers as much as a million dollars.
The same could be said of the gradual abolition of slavery, which was mostly achieved not by war, but by an emerging popular recognition of its cruelty and injustice.
A tragedy that defies any logical explanation confirms only one thing: the cruelty of chance.
Unfortunately, the cruelty of chance also lies at the heart of the centuries of mistrust between Poland and Russia.
He told them that he rejected cruelty to animals, but insisted that it was his duty to promote the interests of people before dogs.
It will come about because the Serbian government, by its cruelty and intolerance, destroyed any hope of a peaceful coexistence between Kosovar Albanians and Serbs.
Given how catastrophic the invasion of Iraq has turned out to be, it is hard even to remember when interventions on moral grounds – whether to thwart a dictator, as in the case of the Balkan wars, or to put an end to anarchic cruelty, as in the case of British intervention in Sierra Leone – seemed like a great advance in international affairs.
Instead, he remained an outspoken, independent man, ready to speak and take action whenever art and ideals confronted repression and cruelty.
Filled with accounts of cruelty, they can inspire despair for the human condition.
Following this logic, FARC leader Pablo Catatumbo has acknowledged the “pain and acts of cruelty” that the guerillas have committed and has requested a collective pardon that would cover human-rights violations committed by both the FARC and state security forces.
This double standard was particularly pernicious in the Middle East, where Palme never censured an Arab country, regardless of its corruption or cruelty.
Two days after the story broke, the Volkswagen Group tweeted that it “explicitly distances itself from all forms of animal cruelty.
As the religious terrorists of September 11, 2001, proved, the human story and mankind’s history go on, as before, through ideas and conflicts, through projects of absolute happiness, through cruelty and disasters, revolutions and revivals.
Many societies treat crimes involving cruelty to animals far too lightly, but Vick’s penalty – 23 months in prison – was substantial.
Those committed by strangers, often with intense cruelty – and often linked to organized-crime groups such as the Central American maras – rarely end up in court at all.
Training animals to perform tricks often involves starvation and cruelty.
My answer is this: the idea that there are limits to human cruelty.
Outsiders and Chinese alike must emphasize the senseless cruelty that such measures imply and work to ensure that they are never seen again – in China or anywhere else.
Otherwise, you are infringing EU regulations and are guilty of exercising "unnecessary cruelty" upon animals.
One fallen princeling, Bo, has been accused of cruelty and corruption – traits that are endemic in China’s cloistered but fragmented oligarchy, which values family lineage and relies on networks of allies.
After four years of President Donald Trump’s bald-faced lies, juvenile bullying, gratuitous cruelty, and perilous volatility, it was certainly an appealing promise.
But what about his deep misogyny or his boundless vulgarity and cruelty?
Matching Mugabe’s cruelty and entitlement, but lacking his erstwhile patron’s eloquence and intelligence, Mnangagwa has revealed himself to be a clueless buffoon with a cartoonish sense of his own invincibility.
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