Sentence examples for a barbaric state from inspiring English sources

We're never going to see such a barbaric state (again, one hopes).

A country where 52,000 people die in violent crimes is, forgive me, a barbaric state.

It is an intolerable and barbaric state of affairs".

Wolf endured some genuine discomfort ("I was in a faeces- or blood-smeared cell, thinking at that moment the only thing that separates civil societies from barbaric states is the rule of law," she wrote) in the name of a political cause.

Islamic State is a barbaric, vile organisation.

Critics say his "conquest of the desert", once hailed for uniting Argentina and rebuffing Chile in 1878-79, was a barbaric campaign which bathed the nascent state in innocent blood.

Venetiaan said those killed had been victims of a "barbaric attack carried out by the state against the peaceful community of Moiwana". The act of public contrition came on the last day permitted by an international court ruling in 2005 that also required Suriname to compensate survivors and victims' relatives and prosecute those responsible for the killings.

The fact that such a "national hero" was then treated by the state in such a "barbaric" way was described as a "terrible blight on our history" by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who requested the royal pardon.

The California governor's moratorium on executions in the state should signal the demise of a barbaric practice.

Islamabad has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions".

Pakistan's government has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions".