Sentence examples for cruel necessity from inspiring English sources
In the Nineties they released three patchy albums with a series of revised line-ups, the personnel changes enforced by cruel necessity.
In fact, many years before his change of heart, General Massu had sounded much more like General Aussaresses, contending that torture had been "a cruel necessity".
Scotland and England still had their separate parliaments, and within half a century England was gripped by civil war, James' son Charles was executed (part of Oliver Cromwell's "cruel necessity"), and when monarchy returned the instability continued.
I may believe that the strategic bombing of Germany was a cruel necessity, but neither my parents nor my in-laws, who had been on the wrong end of the Luftwaffe, had any equivocation about the matter.
Lofty purpose is consumed by cruel necessity.
An actual spy, cold by birth and cruel by necessity, rather than a wiggly eyebrow Sellotaped to a cassette tape of crap puns.
With the sell-off set against a background of cuts driving hundreds of thousands of children into poverty, it is clear that austerity is not being driven by necessity but by a cruel and vindictive political philosophy.
The charges against him include murder, cruel treatment, devastation not required by military necessity and violations of laws of war.
Most are resigned to the unavoidable necessity of obeying orders, however ludicrous and cruel their effects might be, since the consequences of defiance, vividly described in the novel, are extreme.
For Machiavelli, cruel and unusual measures were to be used only out of necessity, to be ended quickly, and to be converted into benefits (safety, security, wealth) for the prince's subjects.
Article 3, Violations of laws or customs of war: nine counts of murder; torture; cruel treatment; wanton destruction of villages or devastation not justified by military necessity; wilful destruction or wilful damage done to historic monument and institutions dedicated to education or religion; plunder of public or private property; and attacks on civilians.
