Sentence examples for because of their brutality from inspiring English sources

"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.

Harassment and even violence against gays are not uncommon, but the Oct. 3 attacks in Morris Heights have struck a nerve because of their brutality and extent — 11 suspects; 4 victims, including the brother of one of the men who were tortured; and a 20-hour rampage involving cigarette burns, sodomy and beatings with baseball bats.

The murders at the convent horrified Burundians, not just because of their brutality but because they took place almost a decade after the end of the country's 12-year civil war, in which 300,000 were slaughtered and 1.2 million – a fifth of the population – fled their homes.

While they had a good deal of support from Americans, the Nationalists became detested in China because of their corruption, brutality and failure to fight the Japanese invaders.

In January, Robert Abrams, the New York State Attorney General, obtained a court order permanently barring two Manhattan apartment owners from converting buildings into cooperatives or condominiums because of their "harassment, brutality and coercion" in emptying a Lower East Side apartment house of its rental tenants.

Because of their reputations for brutality, these officers were known on the streets as "The Skullcap Crew".

Water cannons are disliked in America because of their association with police brutality during the civil-rights era.

Naturally, the Alevis of Okmeydani – and the Alevis of Turkey in general – fear they have been subjected to state brutality because of their religious and political identity. .

We can be prejudice but not racist since our feelings towards white transpeople has no effect on their education, their career, how they are treated, etc. White transpeople (in terms of their race) don't have to fear for their lives or be subjected to police brutality because of their skin color.

Whatever bitterness he held toward whites because of the brutality he suffered at their hands in South Africa had to be weighed against the "important friendships I have formed with white people.