Sentence examples for been systematically beaten and from inspiring English sources

The report found that thousands of students had been systematically beaten and sexually abused by priests, nuns, and other staff members.

When Prior revisits the impoverished north of his childhood, when his blossoming romance in London starts to falter because of his blackouts, and when we are taken inside the prisons where 'conchies' are being systematically beaten and humilated, the novel does succeed in finding external correlatives for its psychological terrain.

TEL AVIV — About 1,000 African migrants trying to cross the Sinai Desert from Egypt into Israel have been systematically beaten, raped and held captive for ransom in the past year by the Bedouin smugglers they hired to help them make the journey, an Israeli advocacy organization said Tuesday.

However, it's also possible that some of the individuals were systematically beaten up and killed – or that they were trampled by horses in the thick of battle.

Political parties are banned, critics are systematically arrested and beaten up by police and freedom of expression is severely curtailed.

Regrettably, however, they have often been systematically excluded and overlooked.

You've been beaten, and it's been deliberate.

Opposition politicians and journalists are systematically harassed and sometimes beaten.

Policy-makers have been systematically using its data and analyses.

She had been raped, beaten and stabbed.

Creativity and diversity have been systematically discouraged from the outset.