How To Use Brut In A Sentence
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In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
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McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks.
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Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal.
Hair fix #3
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And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute!
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals.
Think Progress » IRS building in Utah evacuated, two employees taken out on stretchers after reports of white powder.
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His answer was brutal, harsher than he had ever meant.
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Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
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It is necessary to have lived in the depths of the French provinces to form an idea of the four brutifying years which the young fellow spent in this fashion.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
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Though it crush its victims to the earth; and tread them into the dust; and brutify them by every possible invention; it cannot totally extinguish the spirit of manhood within them.
The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
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The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
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The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha.
The Freelands
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There is ample evidence, prosecutors say, that the police were ordered to make their killings as brutal as possible.
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Why, I wonder, don't these novels ever depict a brave new world that's learned its lesson, one that's loving and gentle instead of harsh and brutal?
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Sturges was also quick to spot the feral intensity of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine's brutal boorishness, using them to give Bad Day At Black Rock its seething core of twisted hatred.
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HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
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He was brutally punished for his role in making an illicit radio receiver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Countless other cases of alleged police brutality and racial discrimination continue to be highlighted daily on social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
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Only then can she appreciate Leopolda's definition of love as ‘brutalizing, a raw force, frail as blossoms, tough as catgut wire’.
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The character who seems most conscious that the ides of March falls within Lent is Brutus, especially in his account of the manner in which the assassination should be conducted.
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It shines a light on the regime's brutality and exposes its hypocrisy to its own people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
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History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
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What on earth is the world coming to when ‘minding their own business’ was not enough to prevent two men being brutalised and almost killed by a group of people they'd never met?
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Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength.
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The force is known for its corruption and brutality.
Times, Sunday Times
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From these three statements they get the military idea of women, children, and God, and the heart of the knitting woman recoils in horror from the cold brutality of it all.
In Times Like These
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German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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I am concerned to rule out certain options - because if they're not ruled out then we have fall into an "anything goes" mentality - for we have removed the very moral norms that would allow people to condemn what Hamas is doing and also prevent people from reigning in subrational feelings of vengeance/destruction/hate which tend to lead to brutal actions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The Trial Chamber heard testimony from about 30 witnesses who survived the brutality, and who reported the frequent killings and torture.
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This is one of the few amphitheatres that was used for both Roman political rallying and brutal gladiatorial sports – but tonight it is to host a dance competition.
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In a message posted on the Boston police department's website, the group said that the site had been attacked several months ago and that hundreds of passwords were released in retaliation for what they called brutality against Occupy Boston.
The Seattle Times
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For millions of Americans witnessing the event, it was a prima facie case of police brutality.
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The skyline is brutally impressive in the way cathedrals must once have been when nothing was taller.
October « 2006 « Squares of Wheat
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Set in Scotland, it follows two families torn apart by a brutal double murder.
The Sun
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It was a fitting end for a brutal, mighty king.
Times, Sunday Times
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The market's reaction was swift and brutal.
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Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus.
A Villa at Tibur
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The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed.
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But the brutal conditions - including high humidity and a harsh rocky terrain - soon took its toll.
The Sun
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His whole appearance at such times excited disgust in that lady, and she would leave his presence as soon as possible, using even the term brute to express her disgust; Matthias too, would attempt to rouse him on such occasions, to a sense of impropriety, by exclaiming, "Why, Elijah! what are you saying, what are you about?" while other persons would remove his hand, and hold him.
Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of
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It was brutal, especially the first half.
The Sun
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They often use primitive weapons rocks, blunt objects and machetes to conserve their limited munitions and inflect maximum brutality.
Jedidiah Jenkins: Obama Made the Right Decision in Africa, Here's Why...
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
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Billboards advertising assorted Americana jostle for position with US-style shopping malls and brash, brutalist hotels.
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My son would like to join the army, but he is understandably concerned about being exposed to such brutishness.
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Some historians studying the brutal battles for the Mediterranean have ended by asking an almost unmentionable question, which Woodall's plain account does not address: should Malta have been held at all, against such odds?
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The peace of the island community had been brutally violated.
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It's a small, slow act of civility in a brutish world.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're a nasty little brute!
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The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion.
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Lindauer Brut ￡7.49 Made from the Pinot and Chardonnay grape this dry wine had a light golden colour.
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In his gardens and chariot-racing center, called the hippodrome, almost a thousand people were brutally murdered.
Raw Story
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That would make it nasty, brutish and short.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
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My eyes stung brutally and I started to hiccup.
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With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis
Undefined
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as its producers predicted Chinese authorities would object to its violence but declined to edit out the more brutal scenes.
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During the same period, they also began their first and extremely brutal effort to collectivize agriculture — which ended up in the murder and starvation of millions of peasants.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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I also liked that you had to be in step with someone you were sneaking up on if you wanted to pull off a brutal move.
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Instead, diplomats, politicians and even the media in Pakistan have joined hands in calling brutalities against the Baloch as "Pakistan's internal matter.
Malik Siraj Akbar: Pakistan Vs. Balochistan
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This is a terrain in brutal transition: the boomburbs circling the edge of the metropolis only recently existed as country towns or rural settlements far away from the urban fringe.
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As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
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They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.
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WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
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In 1966 Ford introduced its first Bronco model, a bare-bones brute that has achieved collector status.
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There is a brutal irony about his retirement accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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Otis and Brutus hanging with me on the koppie: 21 31.035 S, 16 17.802 E
Animal Planet: August 2008
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
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How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation,' with an ugly emphasis on _brute_ ....
This Simian World
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As Fine Gael flatlined in the opinion polls, Bruton was ditched as party leader in favour of Michael Noonan.
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In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature.
God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
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The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas.
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Then, after sawing, a diamond goes through bruting—which is rounding—faceting, and finally polishing.
Crystal Death
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Brutes are creatures; but we do not consider them as _fellow creatures_.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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A soldier's life five centuries ago was nasty and brutish, but not necessarily short.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were also widely seen as a means to calm public anger over the pilot's brutal killing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The language, the violence, the unapologetic maleness of gangland bonding mixes the excesses of laddish culture with an affectionate tribute to Kray Brothers brutalism.
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Park's naturalistic depiction of brutal violence and sadistic torture often make for uncomfortable viewing.
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But you trusted entirely these rare moments of triumphant self-expression: every jink and turn by Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup was hard-won, brutally paid for and born out of absolute courage and commitment.
World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
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It was a cold-blooded and brutal murder of people who were running away.
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It can be more accurately described as an uncomfortable viewing experience - but that's because it tells a brutal and uncomfortable story.
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In airbrushing the brutality of slavery, we make it possible to ignore the tremendous power that race had - and continues to have - in shaping this society.
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The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace.
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As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
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That metal dominates the list is not surprising: for getting "amped" there's no better soundtrack than reckless speed, brutally simple rhythm, and screamed anthems.
Bob Moses: The Songs They Carried: Music at War
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I was fed up with all those portents of doom and reckon the series could benefit from a brutal change of direction.
The Sun
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The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
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The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
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Surviving civil wars and brutal militias in several African countries, they arrive in Algeria and then must walk across the desert to Morocco.
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She stayed hidden in a curtained room with a handsome, brutish Aussie.
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Various departments inhabit a ramshackle collection of buildings up and down Holloway Road, ranging through arts and crafts, neo-Georgian, brutalism and postmodernist junk.
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Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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How brutal and cruel are the gluttons who eat them!
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The brutally direct communications engendered by youthful, student audiences tend to endear them to dancers.
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Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper.
Essays and Miscellanies
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More feminist fuming: No mandated contraception coverage in healthcare bills Pro-aborts pull out stops opposing Stupak Amendment in healthcare Shock: TMZ calls preborn's killing a "brutal murder" (8 Comments)
Jillstanek.com
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Iran is an advanced, potentially liberal civilisation which is trying to fight its way out of a brutal theocratical suit of armor.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements.
"Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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These rapes are brutal, leaving the victims with deep wounds and fistulae that require surgery.
Amy Goodman: Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
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Nonvintage brut cremants d'Alsace from Lucien Albrecht (established 1425) are stylish substitutes for French Champagne, whose prices keep rising.
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I wish I had brail e-mail ... but since I dont, somebody read this to Brutha Patterson, the Clintons have LOST their MOJO ...
Paterson says Clinton frustrated, not desperate
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Without a text to assist them they may prevaricate too long before facing the brutal truth.
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A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11.
Archive 2009-04-01
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They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
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Aside from a large winch, called a capstan, and various blocks and pulleys to take off some of the strain, eighteenth-century sailing ships relied on brute man power.
John Paul Jones
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HARLEM - An NYPD detective invited to a community meeting about concerns of police brutality was refused entry into a Harlem mosque because he refused to relinquish his badge and his gun, police said.
Atlas Shrugs
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They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.
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Penologists and medical experts agree that the process of carrying out a verdict of death is often so degrading and brutalizing to the human spirit as to constitute psychological torture.
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After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
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He got the door open with brute strength.
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On October 21, full six days after the brutal killings, there are tell-tale signs of the crime still present in the form of blood stains on the floor and walls of the lock-up.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
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Her experience of going from brutal small town to souless megacity shapes much of her fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
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Russia's brutal repression and lawlessness have pushed people towards Islamic fundamentalism.
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President Bush accusing Russia of what he called a dramatic and brutal escalation of its invasion of Georgia.
CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008
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They also found his iPhone diary detailing his jealous thoughts in the days leading up to the brutal killing.
The Sun
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Primate behavioral ecologist Sylvia Amsler observed groups of male chimps patrolling the edges of their territory and targeting rivals for brutal killings.
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It could be brutal and vicious from round one.
The Sun
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Director: Martin Ginestie An investigation into the debate surrounding the fate of Robin Hood Gardens, controversial East London housing estate described as a dilapidated concrete eyesore by some and a masterpiece in Brutalist architecture by others.
IndieWIRE News
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The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
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But at least one site, where the more than 30 victims might be Gaddafi fighters or supporters, suggests that both sides may have been guilty of brutal conduct in the battle for Tripoli.
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The reaction against the neo-brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s was to embrace safe conformism instead.
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The book has its tedious and turgid passages, but the work is held together by a genuine sense of protest, first of all, against the brutality and irrationality of the penal system.
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Um artigo brutal no Guardian sobre o futuro do capitalismo, Capitalism's future on trial, que estabelece um paralelo claro e directo entre os correntes problemas da união europeia o não à constituição, os problemas orçamentais e os deficits de estados membros - este problema que tanto nos afecta e a ideia presente do capitalismo enquanto a mão invisível que estrutura os mercados e beneficia a longo prazo toda a sociedade.
Capitalismo Europeu
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Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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A very useful mare," as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named Coalition, was on this occasion confided to the Major's sole care and judgment.
The Duke's Children
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_iuuerit_ aura,/obruta de mediis cumba resurget aquis ', ix 73' et si quae _dabit_ aura sinum, laxate rudentes ', and _Tr_ IV v 19-20' utque facis, remis ad opem luctare ferendam,/_dum ueniat_ placido mollior aura deo ',
The Last Poems of Ovid
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And when she was brutally knocked off of Washington's segregated streetcars, she denounced racism: "It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die, but die it must.
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The second part of the law was simple but brutal, stating that all non-humans had no choice in their government.
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Clinton said last week in Rome world powers must show the Syrian government that there are consequences for what she called a "brutal crackdown" on civilians.
US Says Syrian Repression Only Spurs More Unrest
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Their methods and motives are now universally regarded as brutal, unfair and unjustified.
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But this new world faces a new threat of disorder and chaos born either of brutal states armed with weapons of mass destruction or of extreme terrorist groups.
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The force is known for its corruption and brutality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Couples counsellors suggest having an honest (but not brutal) exchange about what behavioural tweaks would bring you closer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The brutal destruction of an entire village was one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam war.
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Andy Carpenter gains possession of an adorable Bernese puppy whose owner was brutally murdered.
New Tricks by David Rosenfelt: Book summary
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She should have the best of forage, the purest of water, the cleanest and best of ventilated stables, and the air should be free from any taint of noxious vapors - in a word, the entire environment of this faithful animal should be as carefully and honestly protected as though she was human and not brute.
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And it ` s just -- again, it ` s uncomprehensible to them that someone could be charged for this brutal crime.
CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006
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He is not some murderous criminal to be brutally dealt with, Uncle Charles.
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The nuances of scientific baseball could not compete with the brute strength, virile showmanship, and instant gratification of the round-tripper, and the bellwether of brawn, of course, was Babe Ruth.
WILLIE MAYS
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Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
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This was a vicious and brutal attack.
The Sun
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Cowes Week, which starts tomorrow, is a highly prestigious sailing regatta in which the crews battle against not just each other but also the brute forces of wind and tides that can rip through the Solent.
Cowes weatherwatch
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You'll feel every punch, grimace at every brutal knock-down and celebrate every win as if it were your last in EA's fantastic boxing video game.
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He was brutally beaten, struck over the head with a weapon, and handcuffed to a toilet while the gang ‘robbed’ the van.
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Their desire for independence has to do with brute economics.
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He had presided over a brutal regime in which thousands of people had 'disappeared'.
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Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side.
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He was also, of course, heavily implicated in the brutally murderous system of forced labour without which the entire German war economy would have collapsed.
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I let down my red hair and Max accused me of being like Circe, who turned men into brute beasts and would not let them feel love.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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The American business magazine decried the bear's "brutishness" and its threat to an interdependent world; labeled Russia "a gangster state" ruled by a "kleptocracy.
Foreign Policy In Focus
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The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country.
John Feffer: Fela: Music Is Still the Weapon
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It was a cold-blooded brutal killing, carried out in a busy town-centre street at 3pm on a Thursday afternoon.
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Taunts that players receive when they're involved in road games may be brutal, but they don't inflict as much hurt as the barbs tossed at them by fans in their home park.
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This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
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It shames the democratic world to have such a brutal dictatorship in Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity.
Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Life in the camps had brutalized him
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The trade unions suffered brutal repression after the coup.
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Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods.
Winter Sunshine
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Both the semi-autobiographical Denisovich and the non-ficiton Archipelago described Gulag life in harrowing detail, and forced the West to finally acknowledge the grave human rights abuses perpetrated inside Stalin’s brutal work camps, which at their peak housed more than two million prisoners.
Russian Gulags: Then and Now | Disinformation
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Even those who had played "doggo" showed the effects of their incarceration in the brutal open pens where the Eosi had contained them.
Freedoms Challenge
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These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition.
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It can also be brutish and short.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its horsepower is real and brutal, almost untamable.
The Sun
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I'm sorry, I know that these are uncomfortable, even brutal questions, but they must be asked.
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First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business.
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It would be an extensive and sometimes brutal business, but the Society was the equal of the challenge.
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Kocher delivers concentrated doses of unadorned reality - not necessarily harsh and brutal but hardly always pretty, either.
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The early 1990s were also the years in which the first particularly brutal neo-fascist assaults took place in Germany.
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Teravainen belonged to the brute force school; off the tee, he was as long as anybody.
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Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
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Politicians, particularly brutally opportunistic politicians, take their cue from the temper of the times.
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When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
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This bleak worldview was reflected in art, such as the Vienna Secessionists, divorced from tradition, and in the Bauhaus architecture ‘starting from zero’ which begot brutalism.
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If you like the Bourne style of action then this will suit you fine, but if you like to * see* your action (which I do), like the end fight in flashpoint to example, where it's brutal but you can still see whats going on then your going to be dissapointed.
Box Office: Quantum of Solace Grabs Record $8M in the UK on Opening Day!; Tracking for $50M US | /Film
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For him, the whale was a brute beast which provided the source of his income.
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Nevertheless, their sound is a fitting precursor to the hilarious yet obvious shoutings of Art Brut and the schizophrenic hyper-noise of labelmates like Deerhoof and Bunnybrains.
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A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg.
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A 26-year-old man was charged for the brutal slayings.
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Another archbishop believes the government ‘is destroying our international reputation, brutalising the nation's attitudes and making us a less compassionate people’.
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Allegations of brutality and theft have been levelled at the army.
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You don’t get to passivize brutality by attributing it to time; it belongs to the world of men.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain?
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The brutal twists of Spooks bode well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, in close combat, the rule is straight forward and brutal: the more ranks you have the better.
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His shop is full of four-barreled, fat-tired road studs and a crew of mechanics and body men who know every grease zerk and bolt hole in the Chevelles, Chargers, 442s and other elegant brutes from the Detroit power play that peaked in the 1960s and early '70s.
Detnews.com - Local
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Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work.
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The election campaign will be nasty, brutish and long and very expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her baby was rent away from her arms by a brutal bandit.
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So why were they killed in such a brutal manner?
Times, Sunday Times
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All of this inspired me to create a whimsical (but pointed) solution towards the elimination or reduction of these brutal altercations.
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Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
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Some scenes involving extreme violence and brutality were difficult to film but I was always conscious of keeping my opinions to myself and not being judgmental.
Times, Sunday Times
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The basic point made by torture advocates (when they’re not quibbling about whether or not you should call techniques poached from a torture resistance manual “torture”) is that the problem with liberals is that we’re not sufficiently willing to engage in brutal treatment of prisoners in order to compel their cooperation.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
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In the Brut Rose category, California is clearly pulling ahead.
