Sentence examples for cruel combination from inspiring English sources

A cruel combination of slowing demand, high energy costs and knockdown Chinese competition has sent Britain's steel industry into what many fear is a terminal decline.

The rods were surgically planted to treat herniated discs, the result of having a cruel combination of osteoporosis, hepatitis C, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.

What happened to him was almost inexplicable, a cruel combination of good luck, bad luck and the kind of disappointment that would have overwhelmed me even at my most brashly defiant.

Anna, her psyche buckling under the appallingly cruel combination of despair and hope, is prepared to try anything to get her child back, including engaging the services of psychic Richard Latham, and it is under his dubious auspices that the two strands of the story start to come together.

Sprint training is a cruel combination of the mundane and brutal.

In addition, many other elements of the ill-treatment, either singly or in combination, constituted cruel inhuman or degrading treatment.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that some pain during an execution does not violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the new combination is sure to revive debates over how executions are carried out.

In addition, we reserve the right to edit/delete comments that are some combination of pointlessly vulgar, vile, cruel, without redeeming qualities, and an embarrassment to the site.

The justices agreed to hear an appeal by two men on Kentucky's death row who argue that the combination of three drugs amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

But religion is seldom the culprit: look, rather, for cruel autocrats, corrupt feudal systems, overbearing armies or any combination of the above.

That combination, opponents say, violates the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.