The phrase "act brutally" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone behaving in a harsh, violent, or cruel manner.
Example: "In the heat of the battle, the soldiers were forced to act brutally to survive."
Alternatives: "behave violently" or "conduct oneself ruthlessly".
Mr. Louima's lawyers seized upon instances like that to accuse the P.B.A. of conspiring with patrolmen to cover up the truth and, in a broader sense, of acting with the city to create an environment in which officers could act brutally with impunity.
Paramilitaries on both sides still act brutally in their own communities, taking on the role of judge and jury and meting out punishment: kneecappings, beatings, exiles.
The police act brutally, the Settlers are aggressive, the media in not always nice, and Mr, Wiesel's friend - PM Netanyahu lost his tongue when it is most needed.
Week after week, the hero of "24" acts brutally, and endures brutality, for the greater good.
Acting brutally abroad saves lives at home.
"We are happy," said Rashad Zaid, 20, a university student from Ramallah, "because the barriers of fear have collapsed and people are able to raise their voices against those who have acted brutally.
With the exception of complaints by Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, which has said the military appears to be training militia groups of the kind that acted brutally in East Timor in 1999, there have been few objections to the war.
When galvanised into action, Nigerian troops acted brutally towards villagers in the north-east of the country, abducting and killing those suspected of supporting Boko Haram.A staccato tone means the book can at times read too much like a piece of overlength, wire-agency journalism.
A chronology of key events: The regime acts brutally against Serbs and Jews as it seeks to create a Catholic, all-Croat republic.
"Now, in the current situation the Russians acted brutally.
Zimmerman acted brashly and was almost certainly motivated by assumptions about young black men, but it is not clear that hehe did not acted brutally out of hatred for Martin's race.
