Sentence examples for cruel amount from inspiring English sources

The papers, and there are a cruel amount of papers, are what life is all about.

For all the wonder of this documentary, I could not help but think of the 3,771 who died crossing the Med last year: if even a tenth had been as bright-buttoned as Isra'a, Ali and Hassan, we have lost a cruel amount of young-old wisdom to the exigencies of the EU and to the prejudices of the British press.

"But deliberate blinding inflicted by a medical expert is a cruel punishment which amounts to torture, which is prohibited under international law.

The drug's use was challenged in US Supreme Court case Glossip v. Gross, but the Supreme Court ruled the drug did not amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Mr. Post, who weighs 450 pounds, had also argued in federal court that executing him would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

The court "had no difficulty concluding that death by firing squad" did not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, Justice Thomas wrote.

"I think asking my students to compose their term papers on one," he wrote, "would amount to cruel and unusual punishment".

MIAMI — One too many bouts of flatulence and cramping has led a Florida inmate to sue the Department of Corrections, arguing that the prison's soy-based turkey dogs and sloppy Joes amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

As a matter of constitutional analysis, the question in the case was whether the death penalty was so disproportionate to the offense as to amount to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

"The suffering of Clayton Lockett during his execution in Oklahoma on Tuesday, 29 April, may amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment according to international human rights law," said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights.

Earlier this year, federal judges in California tentatively ruled that the state release almost a third of its prisoners because the conditions in which they're kept amount to cruel and unusual punishment.