A string of crimes by convicts on early release culminated in a particularly sad and nasty sexual assault on a three-year-old girl, which came before the courts this month.Carefully stoked by the press, popular passions are running high against everyone involved with the administration of justice.
But the ordeal raised questions about religious tension that has bubbled up in unexpected pockets of East Africa, and about whether acid attacks — a particularly nasty type of assault that can leave victims disfigured for life — may be spreading to places where there is no history of them.
I certainly don't believe that deleting nasty comments is an assault on free speech.
Count on them to lead a "happy, nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years' worth of youth movies" (Scott).
So these days the F. J. Sciame Construction Company (the New Victory Theater, Bridgemarket) is hurling 100 carpenters and electricians into a nasty, brutish and short assault on the unfinished structure.
Politicians understand part of the job involves being assaulted with nasty comments in public.
Aren't you in fact making up quotes, lying to your party leader, wanting to be part of someone being physically assaulted...you're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?
"Aren't you in fact making up quotes, lying to your party leader, wanting to be part of someone being physically assaulted...you're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?" Mair, 47, a multiple Sony award winner during his long radio career, is not afraid of being unpopular.
As directed by Sarah Benson, the theatre's visionary director, there was something nasty about the show — not an assault on dead white men but a sneaky attack on heritage.
In March a Lib Dem councillor in Surrey didn't say something nasty, he was convicted of racially aggravated assault.
