Sentence examples for because of brutality from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yang estimates that 36 million people died because of brutality and food shortages caused by the Great Leap Forward.

He suggested that if Dr Skuse was wrong about his claimed findings of nitro-glycerine traces, that would mean he had wasted most of his professional life; if the mens' confessions were false and had been signed because of brutality, the enormity of the conspiracy within two police forces beggared belief.

BANGUI, Central African Republic, 12 May 2018 - A dramatic increase in violence in the Central African Republic in the first part of 2018 has forced at least 55,000 people, including 28,600 children to flee because of brutality and violence in their communities.

Hochschild contends that some ten million Congolese perished under Leopold's control and in the years following, mainly because of brutalities perpetrated by Leopold's private army in its search for rubber and ivory, although that figure is contested by other historians.

He believes that many people are talking about Twitter, but that YouTube has been decisive, because the images of brutality, violence, and assassinations ignite revolt.

In a related development, a Supreme Court justice in the Bronx unsealed part of a deposition that gives more details about a former supervisor's recommendation in 1991, three years before the death of Mr. Baez, that Mr. Livoti be transferred from a Bronx precinct because of complaints of brutality.

New York State prison guards sometimes get away with barbaric acts of brutality because their union shields even the worst of them from prosecution — and because district attorneys in communities dominated by prisons are hesitant to bring difficult, politically unpopular cases.

The Holocaust is unique in the archive of brutality because it invalidated that specific belief, just as the purges of Stalin and the Cultural Revolution invalidated the moral presumptions of communism.

"I select incidents that shock me because of their brutality and/or impunity," she writes.

They were impossible not to like, even to respect, despite — or even because of — their brutality.

Disturbing because of the brutality they describe (one man was waterboarded 183 times in a month).