Sentence examples for cruel move from inspiring English sources

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Besides the misplaced confidence and incredible short-sightedness, it's also a pretty cruel move.

This cruel move to rescind DACA feeds the beast of bigotry, and it will upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people across the nation.

They pulled at his arms, walked on his back, slapped him, and folded his legs behind his ears; in a particularly cruel move, they tickled his feet.

They see the government's plan as a cynical and cruel move against an animal that is being slaughtered at alarming rates for its ivory, especially to satisfy demand in China.

I decided to closely examine this morning's coverage of the vote because such a blatantly absurd and cruel move struck me as a good test of whether the Washington press corps could ever bring itself to call things as they so obviously are -- or whether they would check their very good brains at the door and just write triangulating mush that leaves readers to fend for themselves.

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He was joined by fellow guitar legend and Beatles star Paul McCartney, who predicted the government's "cruel and unnecessary" move would lose them support.

The recorded pop canon has a cruel tendency to move forward on the music of fearless newcomers, but live performance gives veterans a chance to even out the score.

And at the Hanson Country Inn, the most popular reception space around, the owner, Patricia Covey, was proclaiming the move cruel to young couples who, like their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents before them, want to go down to the pretty Italianate courthouse in the center of the county seat here and declare themselves husband and wife.

In a statement released late Saturday night, the Israeli Army spokesman's unit said that Sheik Nasrallah's pronouncements "constitute a cruel and cynical move by an organization that flagrantly tramples the most fundamental ethical codes, shows no respect for human rights or the international conventions that govern these matters".

He didn't see the injustice at 10, had an idea it might be unfair at 15 and realizes he was borderline cruel as he moves into his late 20's.

They can become smug as they move forward, cruel as they organize into groups, simplistic as they rely on propaganda to mobilize the masses.

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