Sentence examples for brutality led from inspiring English sources
Rather, an enthusiasm for brutality led the US to emulate Mao and Pol Pot.
This brutality led several German Protestant princes to side with the Swedes, but John George of Saxony, his territories separating the armies of Tilly and Gustav, remained neutral.
Revulsion at apartheid's brutality led the nation's founders to write one of the world's most enlightened constitutions, making equal rights a pillar of society, he said.
The end of the cold war and an explosion of ethnic brutality led to ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
Chief Bratton, a former New York City police commissioner, said Wednesday that the department's completion of a series of federally mandated anticorruption measures and safeguards against police brutality led him to consider retirement.
In other news, social unrest broke out in the Central Highlands in mid-April when long-festering grievances by the Degar ethnic minority over land rights, religious persecution, and police brutality led to mass demonstrations in Dak Lak and Gia Lai provinces.
Disgust at the Syrian regime's brutality has led Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, to distance itself from its Iranian backers.Moreover, Iran's Shia allies are deepening sectarianism.
Any attempt to patch it back together again without fundamentally changing the repression, corruption and brutality that led to the explosion of popular anger in 2011 is doomed to fail.
What is clear is that several hundred thousand Albanians were driven from their homes in a short period of time and have offered concurring accounts of the Serbian brutality that led them to flee or try to flee.
The case shocked Europe with its brutality and led to an anxious public debate on pedophilia and child abuse, subjects that had until then had received little media attention.
His exemplary skill at blinding civilians earned him the nickname the "Eye Sniper", and his notoriety as a symbol of ongoing state brutality eventually led to a three-year jail sentence.
