Like other civil wars, the American revolution was marked by brutality on a sickening scale.
After a somber history of coups and brutality, it was dissolved, though not constitutionally abolished, by Mr. Aristide.
It is a simple and brutal sentence, and Flaubert's English-language translators seem to shy away from its simplicity and its brutality.
All this is bad news, because it means that things are as they were and our enduring capacities for brutality, distortion, and conformity are bound to bear more bitter fruit in the future.
Rossouw, 42, is among several residents who accuse the police of brutality.
That pluralism has ebbed and flowed since 1979 - mainly the former - but last week it was crushed with blunt brutality.
But a certain shrillness of tone and an unwillingness to take sufficiently seriously the ever-present danger of terrorist atrocities of appalling brutality has lessened their impact.
The frenzied brutality of the second half of last year, when arrests took place in the hundreds and many dissidents were killed and tortured in custody, has given way to a duller repression.
With each death, and each example of police brutality, they grow more resentful and more radical.
The lofty slope of his narrow forehead, the perfectly humane look of his cultivated brutality, struck Shelton as ridiculous.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a talk swing between humor and brutality as rapidly and powerfully as Chris does in this talk.
He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him.
Here is a selection of photos in which soldiers are either playing or petting a furry friend. It's a contrast between brutality and softness.
If we deplore Iran's brutality, shouldn't we also deplore yours?
Sixtus's violent, if productive, five-year papacy exemplified a recurrent theme in Rome's history: the entwining of brutality with lavish creativity.
Water cannons are disliked in America because of their association with police brutality during the civil-rights era.
Hungarian blogs were also used to aggregate visual evidence of police brutality.
Capote doesn't shrink from exploring the brutality of the killers, but he also forces us to consider their wounded humanity.
Absenteeism is one problem; brutality is another.
The East Timorese voted to secede from Indonesian control in a referendum in 1999 - a vote that will be remembered for the brutality of militiamen who tried to disrupt the process.
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