The phrase "barbarism for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to create noun phrases that refer to an act or instance of barbarism. Example: The soldiers' burning of the village was a brutal barbarism for the peaceful inhabitants.
Anyone else would have sat down, or gone inside, but not the queen of England; she stood, a victim of our subtle barbarism, for hours in the rain.
And as Lord Clark said, people who claim to prefer barbarism to civilisation probably have not tried barbarism for long enough.
For Britons reared on the Churchillian narrative, for Americans who crossed the Atlantic to save Europe from Nazi barbarism, for Russians who see the defeat of Hitler as their finest moment, and most of all, for Jews to whom the Holocaust represents the apogee of evil, Ozols' position may seem perverse.
For the past few decades the universities have been worse than supine in face of the onslaught of neoliberal barbarism, for, rather than resisting it, defending the civilised values they are supposed to embody, they have colluded in their own destruction.
They have thus far not included assaults on uninvolved civilians and barbarism for its own sake.
The leftwing writer Dwight MacDonald cited America's "decline to barbarism" for dropping "half-understood poisons" on a civilian population.
Such links between Enlightenment thinking and 20th-century barbarism are, for Pinker, merely aberrations, distortions of a pristine teaching that is innocent of any crime: the atrocities that have been carried out in its name come from misinterpreting the true gospel, or its corruption by alien influences.
A smart, new-looking library is decorated with a slogan declaring that the inhabitants are against barbarism and for freedom of expression.
The rush of executions is notable not only for its barbarism but also for its contrast to prevailing thinking about capital punishment.
In another post he wrote: "I am one of the witnesses for the barbarism of the Australian government".
Kurds, Christians, Yazidis, Shia, opposing Sunni tribes and gays (who are thrown from the tops of buildings into chanting armed crowds) are among the targets for the barbarism of ISIS, while Sunnis face brutality and chemical attacks from the tottering Assad regime.
