Sentence examples for In barbarous from inspiring English sources

Missionaries, priests and nuns were said to be murdering children, and extracting their hearts and eyes in barbarous Western rituals.

He rejected the voluminous testimony and documentary evidence that his regime has engaged in barbarous acts against its own citizens.

Countless numbers of people had collaborated in "barbarous acts which outraged the conscience of mankind" in the heart of democratic Europe.

Guede's role, Crini claimed, was limited to "satisfying himself in barbarous fashion" – in other words, seeking sexual gratification while the murder took place in front of him.

Though written in barbarous Latin and excessively dull, it is of great importance because the author was writing of contemporary happenings and the chronicle is almost the sole literary source for this period.

Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); Cited in: Schafran, The Road to Resegregation, 25.

In remarks that a majority of British Muslims would regard as an extremist mutation of their religion, Jeremiah Adebolajo claimed his brother Michael had sought to "please Allah by fighting in his cause" in the barbarous attack in Woolwich, south London.

The notion that the future of their faith might lie in the barbarous lands of the west, rather than in the Fertile Crescent, would have struck Timothy as ludicrous.

Their good opinion of themselves was also much enhanced by an advantage they got in an engagement by sea, in which they took Philistus prisoner, and used him in a barbarous and cruel manner.

Knights stood at the forefront of European history for centuries, serving as conquerors and keepers of the peace in a barbarous era fraught with conflict and immortalised as heroes in epic myths and romanticised tales.

There are many, many pleasures in "The Barbarous Years".