Sentence examples for public brutality from inspiring English sources

In the process, they have taken public brutality to new levels.

In January 1969, in one of the Baath Party's first displays of public brutality, 13 Iraqi Jews and 4 other men were hanged in a public ceremony in Baghdad before a crowd of about a half million people.

Bernstein compares the public brutality of the lynch mob to the medieval English practice of hanging, drawing, and quartering people convicted of high treason.

Along with the grisly rep, body snatching, and public brutality comes some intense heat from el presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and his army of federal and local officers.

The public brutality of the coup shocked Western powers more than any event up to that point, set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

You could tell that America was unwell — public displays of brutality, deeply internalized prejudice, "Entourage" — but it seemed curable.

Married to Muammar Gaddafi's sister-in-law, Senussi oversaw an oppression that revelled in public displays of brutality.

The book would help to "impress a distant public with the brutality of warfare waged as this one has been".

A real-life chain-gang member was portrayed in "I Am a Fugitive," which was released amid a public outcry over brutality in the name of law.

Many people tried to describe the problem, Mr. Walcott said, but Mr. Safir, armed with charts, seemed intent on showing that the public perception of brutality was a mistake.

Mobilised on social networks (Brazil is now second only to the US in numbers of Facebook users), more than a million marched in 50 cities to protest against corruption, dire public services, police brutality and the profligate use of tax money to build World Cup stadiums.