Sentence examples for brutal state from inspiring English sources

After opponents challenged last month's flawed presidential election, the government imposed a brutal state of emergency.

Libyans used to be afraid of a brutal state; now they are afraid of the absence of the state.

In Mexico the corrupt and brutal state police torture prisoners and vie with the cartels for control of the trade.

And for average Iraqis, the occupation of their country has been traumatic, especially after decades of war, sanctions and brutal state repression by Mr. Hussein's government.

But earlier in the week, one of Abdel-Rahman's colleagues warned some would not accept a return to the brutal state treatment of Islamists during the 1990s.

That is especially true in a country like Russia, which is painfully emerging from 70 years of brutal state control over all intellectual and artistic life.

Brutal state-legislative redistricting after the 2000 census left several of Governor Bush's Democratic allies in existential peril.

Mr. Mugabe won the June runoff only after Mr. Tsvangirai boycotted it, citing brutal, state-sponsored violence against his supporters.

A Sinai-based cell also claimed responsibility for last week's failed assassination attempt on Egypt's interior minister, and the unrest has been used to justify a brutal state-led crackdown on more moderate and largely peaceful Morsi supporters in Cairo.

Mr. Tsvangirai, who won more votes than Mr. Mugabe in last year's presidential election but was forced out of a runoff by brutal, state-sponsored attacks on his supporters, reluctantly agreed to share power with Mr. Mugabe five months ago.

Chinese, Korean, and Filipino, they represent the estimated two hundred thousand women from countries across East and Southeast Asia occupied by Japan who were held in brutal state-run rape camps a crime that went largely unacknowledged until the nineties.