Sentence examples for cruel exercise from inspiring English sources

The six-day hunt had been alternately hailed as an attempt to cull a bear population that had grown to dangerous proportions and lambasted as a cruel exercise in human vanity.

It was the second time the playwright had seen his work pulled, and he reacted with a strongly critical open letter, calling the move "the abusive use of absolutist power wielded in the cruel exercise of vile censorship..

Webster's dictionary defines "Oppression" as a noun meaning "the unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power" on the individual/interpersonal, institutional and larger societal levels.

Moreover, an unusual celebrity pairing at the podium may a crowd-pleasing televisual frisson make, but devising a witty exchange for these mismatched, gurning duos is like a particularly cruel writing exercise.

A sergeant has been charged with abuse and faces life imprisonment for forcing Mr Hung to perform "cruel" physical exercises that went beyond "what the ordinary human body can endure".

It's a cruel and shabby exercise by the Sun, one that exploits the understandable rage of a bereaved mother.

For example, the conflict between opponents of pigeon shooting who view it as "a cruel and moronic exercise in marksmanship, and proponents, who view it as entertainment" has been tested in a court of law.

His policy was to support the native states and chieftainships, their laws and their courts, forbidding slave raiding and cruel punishments and exercising control centrally through the native rulers.

After last week's hourlong exercise in cruel suspense, Wednesday night's "American Idol" results show was shortened to a half-hour.

He could laugh at himself, evidently, but preferred to exercise his notoriously cruel wit on others.

As documented in a Clinton campaign ad that's been widely shared since the debate, Trump, in the nineties, brought TV reporters to watch Machado exercise, and gave cruel interviews about her weight.