Based on the "obvious cruelty inherent," Justice Stevens said, the answer was yes.
But in "Heaven on Earth," a carefully researched history of how Islamic jurisprudence has evolved since the seventh century, Sadakat Kadri challenges the notion that Shariah is based solely on cruelty and punishment.
As a cast member of Saturday Night Live and playing the role of Leslie Knope – a chipper, ambitious civil servant from the fictional small town of Pawnee, Iowa – in the terrific sitcom Parks and Recreation, she embodies the possibility of a humour based not on cruelty but on a rueful, shared acknowledgment of human folly.
But the purpose and the impact of these statutes is to silence speech based on its opposition to cruelty to animals on industrial farms and in slaughterhouses.
Your faith should not be based on humanism, hypocrisy or cruelty of people, but on God's love and your beliefs that you hold, fastened and sure.
Hall also convinced Peter Brook to join the company, leading to the infamous Theatre of Cruelty season based on the ideas of Antonin Artaud in 1964.
The most powerful aspect of Bertrand Russell's critique of religious belief is his claim that religion is based on fear, and that fear breeds cruelty.
This hypothesis is based on two postulates: (1) that animal cruelty precedes interpersonal aggression, and (2) that the effect is specific to violent forms of antisocial behavior.
But Tracy senses that Brooke's life plans are not working out and starts on a new short story entitled Mistress America based on the tragicomic delusions of Brooke's life: this cruelty unlocks a disloyal creative force.
A judge increased the sentence to 90 months based on his finding that Mr. Blakely had acted with "deliberate cruelty," which the defendant had not admitted and no jury had found.
