Sentence examples for cruel elements from inspiring English sources

There we were, the rain lashing down, the wind howling in our faces, the cameras rolling, knowing types taking notes on the sidelines, and we, a selection of the press, so much happier taking those notes, were expected to send the ball, again and again, straight and true through the cruel elements, all the while under this insufferable pressure.

Perhaps the most cruel element of administrative detention … is the fact that it may be extended time and time again".

As with "True Blood," the show's most graphic elements — the cruel ones, the fantasy ones, and the cruel-fantasy ones — speak to female as well as male viewers.

A thousand regulations and prohibitions take the place of law, while justice is destroyed by an insistent appeal to the most sordid, cruel and mean-spirited elements in human nature.

And yet, a former acquaintance thought this brutal and cruel murder had humorous elements.

"There's an element of cruel chance at the whims of Mother Nature," Mr. Russianoff, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said.

It really is degrading and humiliating and an example of the cruel nature of this element of Australian law".

The answer is not for American occupation authorities to try to piece back together elements of the cruel and unlamented Baathist state.

Aggravating factors in United States criminal codes, such as "heinous," "atrocious," "cruel," "vile," or "depraved," distinguish elements of a crime that warrant more severe sentencing.

"Men sent to the camps under Section 175 were usually put to forced labor under the cruelest conditions — underfed, long hours, exposure to the elements and brutal treatment by labor brigade leaders," Mr. Phillips said.

And so the battle to overcome the instinct behind this cruel legislation has to include some element of theological deprogramming.