Sentence examples for brutally denied from inspiring English sources

An essential — if still underestimated — aspect of the Arab uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and even Saudi Arabia was the nationalist yearning for dignity and self-respect brutally denied the men and women of those societies by decades of politically infantilizing autocratic rule.

How about the Filipinos, brutally denied independence and forcibly incorporated into an American empire as the nineteenth century ended?

For a century afterward, black Americans were pressured, both subtly and brutally, to deny the past and to adapt to white culture; in the coming PBS special "African American Lives," some of today's most prominent black Americans tell of childhoods in which relatives actively avoided discussing family roots.

Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody in November 2009 after allegedly being brutally beaten, then denied medical care.

Colin's writings were brutally honest; he denied love.

Having watched both, I'm tempted to say that the fictional film has a happy ending that is brutally – or, rather, humanly – denied to the hero of this one.

Lebanon brutally oppresses Palestinians, denying them the right to own land or become lawyers and doctors.

Cher doesn't just get denied, she gets "brutally rebuffed"; when Dion's boyfriend gets called out for repeatedly calling her "woman," he delivers what amounts to a soliloquy on the legitimization of street slang.

Cher doesn't just get denied, she gets "brutally rebuffed"; when Dion's boyfriend gets called out for repeatedly calling her "woman," he delivers what amounts to a soliloquy on the legitimisation of street slang.

She said they ran away to the shelter together after her father-in-law brutally beat them both when she denied him sex.

The truck drivers' families claimed that they had been brutally murdered at the behest of Sheikh Janabi, although he denied having anything to do with it.