Sentence examples for a brutal wave of from inspiring English sources

The Rajapaksas ended the war in 2009 in a brutal wave of killing that cost the lives of about 40,000 people, many of them civilians, according to international human rights organizations.

"This provoked a brutal wave of violence by the Zetas that badly weakened the Gulf cartel".

Broad-daylight shootouts and instances of bodies dumped on roadsides have diminished, but few are fully confident that the Knights won't return and unleash a brutal wave of revenge killings.

But when I met with 20 or so Guinean women to hear about their experiences on Sept. 28 the day Guinean soldiers trained their guns on pro-democracy protesters and then, allegedly, unleashed a brutal wave of rapes something was different.

In April 1994, Rwanda was immersed in a brutal wave of organized violence that left an estimated one million people dead in a period of only three months.

In January 2008, Macy's fired longtime window dresser Amy Meadows, the woman responsible for decorating 25 years worth of State Street holiday windows and Walnut Room Great Trees, as part of a particularly brutal wave of cost-cutting layoffs at the retailer's Chicagoland stores.

But if the shares plunge, the resulting margin call may lead to an especially brutal wave of selling.

He was born in Kazan in 1932, to parents who were high Communist Party officials; they were swept from their posts and into concentration camps during the most brutal wave of Stalinist purges, in 1937.

Dozens have been killed in Mexico's northeastern border state of Tamaulipas in recent weeks in clashes that resemble the brutal wave of violence that hit the state in February 2010, when inter-cartel fighting erupted into urban warfare.

BARACK OBAMA's decision to spend Christmas in Hawaii was welcome news for an island state battered by the brutal waves of recession.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian military intensified a methodical, ferocious march across the country's most restive locales on Wednesday, shelling the country's third-largest city from tanks, forcing hundreds to flee and detaining hundreds more in what has emerged as one of the most brutal waves of repression since the Arab Spring began.