Sentence examples for brutal limits from inspiring English sources

But imagine when the Labour government sits down to set spending priorities, within the brutal limits laid down by Gordon Brown, the chancellor.

"Who knows?" Wherever Rory Shayne is today, he bears the scars of a life lived in defiance of the brutal limits imposed on him from day one.

The Chinese elite sees the world in terms of brutal competition for limited resources.

The threat of brutal reprisals helped limit demonstrations largely to outlying districts of the city and the university.

FGM as a cultural practice, is often perceived as a rite of passage into the maturity of womanhood, but evidently conceived to contain and control a young woman, or even a girl's sexuality, to ensure virginity before marriage and fidelity after, by the brutal method of limiting a woman's sexual pleasure.

"1984" seemed, in contrast, too brutal, too atavistic, too limited in its imagination of the relation between authoritarian state and helpless citizens.

Sexting, teenage pregnancy, drinking, divorces, affairs, vandalism and occasional brutal cruelties are not off limits.

Detentions at Guant?mo Bay, extraordinary renditions and brutal interrogations all tested the limits of the appropriate exercise of government power in wartime.

One of the first styles to be described, noted ethnographer, and caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias stated that it "reaches the limits of absurd, brutal caricature, a peculiar aesthetic concept that relishes the creation of haunting subhuman monstrosities".

Deputy attorney general Joseph E. McGettigan III said the victims' young age at the time of the alleged crimes and the brutal nature of the events limit his ability to be more specific, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Borowski called his brutal stories "a voyage to the limit of a particular experience".