Sentence examples for brutal demonstration from inspiring English sources

The Ides of March is a brutal demonstration of the action of the strong upon the weak.

At the same stage last season, Saracens had to reach for the oxygen tanks after Clermont Auvergne's brutal demonstration of combined power and poise left a mark on the club's psyche.

In the heat of the 1967 Detroit riots, the Algiers Motel incident became a notorious episode in the city's history and a brutal demonstration of white supremacy over the black population.

Brutal policing of demonstrations against a rise in bus fares elicited a wave of solidarity and brought more than a million marchers to the streets on subsequent nights.

"We were writing about what was going on in the townships — demonstrations, brutal police, and especially women who had been detained, leaving their children behind," Luthuli said.

The government's response to the crisis has drawn international criticism that echoes the condemnation it received after its brutal suppression of demonstrations for change last September.

On Thursday, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, issued a statement condemning what he called "the Syrian government's brutal repression of demonstrations, in particular the violence and killings of civilians at the hands of security forces".

Even his final offer of marriage to Isabella becomes a demonstration of brutal authority.

I was deported by a ­government incensed by my views on the ­apartheid system and my report of the brutal ­quashing of a demonstration at Jan Smuts ­Airport.

"Not only does our current system bring shame to Australia, in its demonstration of brutal government power and disregard for human dignity it brings shame on us as a nation.

In November of 2007, a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations triggered snap presidential elections.