Sentence examples for barbaric from from inspiring English sources

For its part, Texas is often seen as a red-neck state, famous for public policies that strike most Americans as utterly barbaric, from allowing people to carry guns in houses of worship (unless signs specifically forbid the practice) to letting oil firms dictate environmental policies.The second lesson is that attack politics can work.

In the decision to send British forces to defend Sierra Leone from a barbaric invasion from Liberia, he faced down all those who warned of disaster and won great moral credit.

The vast majority of Israeli society stood shoulder to shoulder this past weekend, wholeheartedly condemning the barbaric violence, from right to left, from political leadership to the common people.

This campaign juxtaposes particularly primitive — even barbaric — passages from the Bible and the Koran with quotations from nonbelievers and humanists like Albert Einstein and Katharine Hepburn.

Burgers, steaks, the rarer the better; I got barbaric pleasure from eating meat that was bleeding.

Tom Chivers, an editor at The Daily Telegraph in Britain, called capital punishment a "barbaric hangover from an Old Testament morality".

Or do you think it's a barbaric leftover from the Middle Ages that should be outlawed?

Of course, these shocking images are insulated from barbaric attack by the fact of being "paintings".

People moved from barbaric practises to more civilised values and small incremental improvements in behaviour became the norm.

It's wholly turbulent yet far from barbaric: despite the slippery carpet below, it is a politely non-jostling, giddily absurd melee of bodies.

Since then, his government has redoubled its defence of "Canadian values" and its determination to expunge what it calls "barbaric cultural practices" from the country.