Sentence examples for vicious state from inspiring English sources

He learned all he could about prisons and decided that if he were ever incarcerated, "I hoped for a medium-security federal prison, not a vicious state prison like Attica.

Noting Dacre's remark that people who want to license journalists should go to Zimbabwe, he wrote: "This kind of argument supposes that there is only vicious state regulation on one hand, or freedom on the other, and nothing in between.

If Algeria was not such a loyal ally of Syria, Assad might have pointed out that the French handed their colony over to the Algerian exiles who had largely avoided the war of independence – and who produced the autocratic and vicious state which slaughtered its own people in the Islamist struggle of the 1990s and which remains a corrupt and corrupted regime to this day.

"You're talking about 38 years of living under a vicious state of emergency that has produced a generation who know no democracy and who grew up in an environment where people can't talk freely," he says.

We don't see Jay Z's performance as an attempt at rebranding hip hop, hip hop is sort of reinventing itself all the time and is caught in a vicious state of 're-branding confusion.' This confusion led us to an idea, make Jay Z's next music video.

He thought my novel was some kind of vicious, state-of-the-nation satire on a conglomeration of ill-educated and vivacious heathens.

For instance, Peter Brian Barry argues that evil people possess extremely vicious states of character in the following sense: (1) evil people have the worst kinds of vices, such as cruelty and maliciousness rather than more benign forms of vice such as cowardice or laziness, and (2) evil people have these vices to an extreme degree (Barry 2009, 171 173).

Quite simply, the vast majority of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in a fundamental respect: A small country surrounded by enemies, in a chaotic region of failing states and vicious non-state actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Islamic State, cannot afford to run elections on socioeconomic platforms as if it were a peaceful West European duchy.

Habré ran a vicious security state, with secret detention centers, that tortured and executed tens of thousands of its citizens.

Islamists have their own political spectrum, ranging from the vicious Islamic State to peaceful parties that have run in democratic elections, shared power, and acted against extremists.

But even Mr. Forbes, whose attacks on Mr. Dole on the airwaves in New Hampshire four years ago were some of the most vicious the state had ever seen, is pulling his punches, running commercials that illustrate his positions on economic issues.