That transformation has enabled Assad to refocus the narrative from his vicious rule to his claimed indispensability in the fight against Isis.
With only this in mind, it is easy to argue that the West should intervene — arm the rebels, help them overthrow the vicious rule of the Assads, and try to create something good from the chaos.
The government plucked a giant statue of the hated Leopold II of Belgium from a garbage dump and put it on display in the capital, Kinshasa, for a day to remind people of his vicious rule.
He was held captive by Islamist extremists after taking part in the first large-scale demonstration inside rebel-held Syria against groups like Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra, held by people protesting against their vicious rule in the city of Aleppo.
Segregation helped create vicious ghettos ruled, barely, by paramilitary-style cops.All that has changed dramatically.
A new chapter for the paperback edition reports on how he too became a victim of aggressive censure for suggesting that the "shaming" of people like Rachel Dolezal (the white civil-rights campaigner who identified herself as black) was a form of vicious mob rule.
Much to my surprise, Monday night is a great night to party here, down at Cabo Blanco bar in Calle del Morro, where mezcal, that most vicious of tipples, rules the day (and night).
But although there may be a long struggle ahead, the saving of the manuscripts was an example of how the Malians will do their utmost to resist the imposition of a vicious and nihilistic rule.
In 1994, Taro, a 100-pound Japanese Akita from Haworth, N.J., who was ruled vicious after biting a child and killing a terrier, was spared the death penalty by Gov. Christie Whitman.
This evidence has led to the realization that the jays, finches, and hummingbirds that so peacefully frequent your backyard are indeed living dinosaurs a surviving lineage of vicious predators that ruled the terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic.
