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But, other methods of execution include used an ax splitting the forehead, end of a knife stabbing a hole in the neck, a sliced throat, heart removed from a chest with it beating in the killer's hand(..not elaborated in grisly detail, the director uses sounds, only displaying the beating heart), the back of a victim's head crushed repeatedly into the floor during a scuffle, and a vicious attack with a meat tenderizer.
The action is a lot more visceral than most disaster films, with lots of people being caught up and crushed in Mighty Peking Man's rampage, or other events in the earlier part of the film.
Horrible actress although for a second I thought it was Priyanka Chopra only 2 seconds later to have my dreams crushed.
They find themselves crushed by the oppressive force of the 'care' and soon they too are carrying the Fascistic emblems, branded, on their bodies.
Indeed, inflation was finally crushed in the early 1980s, when central banks raised interest rates to whatever level was required to constrain nominal demand, even if it led to high transitional unemployment.
The first days of the conflict in Georgia crushed this hypothesis.
The Algerian military coup in 1992 crushed the Islamists, many of whom, admittedly, were neither liberal, nor necessarily committed to democracy.
This not only surpassed what ten years ago on Heroes Square sounded like chutzpah, it also delivered historical justice to the Hungarian freedom-fighters of 1956 who had fought for Hungary's independence, but were crushed by Soviet tanks.
Israel has said that it will squeeze Gaza still further, as if the population can be crushed into submission.
There are strong parallels to what happened in the United States in the past few years: many families felt crushed by their debts, so household consumption fell and has yet to recover.
By the end of that year, status quo forces managed to retake the reins of power, and the uprisings appeared to have been all but crushed.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in power for 18 years, has crushed the opposition.
When Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, some 200,000 Hungarians fled their country.
Meanwhile, independent trade unions have been all but crushed, and oligarchs now declare themselves willing to render their property to the state as needed.
Havel defied his misfortune by establishing himself during the 1960s as one of Europe's leading playwrights, only to become a pariah again after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia crushed the "Prague Spring" reform movement in 1968.
Sure, once upon a time, upstarts Facebook and Google crushed Myspace and Yahoo.
The Athens Spring was crushed for reasons that had nothing to do with the Greek government’s left-wing politics.
As Deng had crushed the protestors in Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, Hu had proven himself to be “firm and resolute” in quelling anti-Beijing riots in Lhasa, Tibet, two months earlier.
As it stands, the West is relying on increasingly tough sanctions to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down, leaving the Ukrainian rebels either to surrender or be crushed – and enabling the Ukrainian government to dictate the terms of the country’s future.
Russian troops crushed Georgia’s army on the ground, but they also delivered a strong blow against the logic of further NATO expansion, which, if not stopped, would have inevitably incited a major war in the heart of Europe.
As a result, the government views disagreement as a “disservice,” a rebellious challenge that must be crushed.
Although, the Saudi security forces, the National Guard, and the marines crushed the rebellion, the domestic tensions that fueled it remain.
The 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, which led to the independence of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), crushed those hopes.
But, in the civil war that transpired in Greece after WWII between government forces and the Communist Party’s military branch, the latter were crushed, and the party’s members were labeled as traitors.
That is why, after more than two years, interest rates are rising, not falling, in countries crushed by onerous austerity measures.
Instead, serving the center of power, it crushed them.
Religion was crushed in the name of official Marxist atheism.
For 50 years, the European Union was not much tested by this mission because nationalist impulses were crushed between the two great Cold War alliances.
China’s Long March to FreedomNEW YORK – Twenty-five years ago, on June 4, 1989, China’s movement for democracy and human rights was crushed by security forces in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Profitability levels in the manufacturing industry were crushed by exchange-rate appreciation and rising domestic production costs, and levels of production practically stagnated from 2008, before starting to decline in 2014.
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