There's a lot of barbarity going on in the world at the moment, and we have a story about some guys' memories that overcome barbarity and refuse to engage in it.
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Today, July 5, barbarity wants to impose itself before civility.
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In that way, barbarity could be passed off as chivalry.
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The war on extremist barbarity will not be won quickly.
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He rattles off the lowlights — the slave trade, colonial barbarity.
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"Terror and barbarity will never defeat us," he wrote on Twitter.
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The barbarity of al-Qaeda's members is shocking, but not surprising.
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Enraged by Mr. Assad's wanton barbarity, Mr. Trump ordered missile strikes.
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We can no longer mask the barbarity of what we are doing.
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"This barbarity has never happened before," Makol mayor Zardad Khan told Reuters.
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Ukrainian émigré publications coined a new word to describe its barbarity: "Holodomor," a
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The Kremlin actually painted the effort as a victory of civilization over barbarity.
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The mind-dissolving punishment of isolation is here too, in all its barbarity.
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"I have never seen so much barbarity in my life," Ms. Teixeira said.
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"I have never seen so much barbarity in my life," Ms. Teixeira said.
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Shopify, which hosted the site, Behold Barbarity, did not return a request for comment.
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Such revulsion only gratified Spanish intellectuals, who reveled in a reputation for atavistic barbarity.
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The barbarity of horse racing, the ancient Roman Colosseum, even Mr. Ed. Who cares?
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Dr. Hamburg's family history helped shape his thinking about the human capacity for barbarity.
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Until its too soft ending, "The Innocents" is a hair-raising evocation of unspeakable barbarity.
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Their laser focus is trained on one thing, and one thing only: sheer, unbridled barbarity.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 211967 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 78423 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 87573 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 87513 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 1959 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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"I am personally all too familiar with the barbarity that comes from hateful ideology," Sanders wrote.
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"Logan" is R-rated, and the director, James Mangold, stages bout after bout of frenzied barbarity.
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It is not the barbarity that is new but rather how the violence is documented and disseminated.
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Islamic terrorists are attacking with greater sophistication, taking advantage of technology and human frailty with horrific barbarity.
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"It's a barbarity," one town resident was quoted as saying by the Spanish news channel La Sexta.
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Voltaire saw the triumph of civilization over barbarity as the ultimate good inscribed in the historical process.
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"Hardly a week passes without some apology for some colonial barbarity," Mr. Robertson said in an interview.
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Acknowledge that whiteness saved those who looked like you from the vicious barbarity visited upon black people.
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It serves as a reminder of the barbarity of Daesh and what the world faces with these terrorists.
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To stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective conscience.
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The America Donald Trump portrayed is a horrible place, awash in barbarity, crime, disorder, decay, deceit, rigging, cheating, exploitation.
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It might be tempting to consign Hogarth and his pictures, with their powdered wigs and random barbarity, to history.
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Yet when such barbarity visits a neighborhood struggling with guns, poverty and addiction, there's a feeling God is nowhere.
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Their primary tactic: obtaining footage of training sessions to expose the barbarity of a practice that's cruel and unnecessary.
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They sought not only to advance a racist agenda, but also to invoke their predecessors' history of racist barbarity.
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Before the Dutch arrived at the island on Easter Sunday in 1722, the population had descended into cannibalism and barbarity.
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In an organization that revels in barbarity, the hands of Hicham Chaib are more openly soaked in blood than most.
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"When will the world's revulsion at such barbarity be matched by insistence that this must stop?" said a U.N. official.
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The barbarity of American slavery should be recalled more often, if only to truly understand the significance of its demise.
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He was astonished into silence, because, if this was a scene from nature, it was a nature rooted in barbarity.
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"Barbarity of the sort alleged — cannot be tolerated in a civilized society," Chief Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in the decision.
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IS committed untold barbarity, from mass beheadings to sexual enslavement, and inspired jihadists to kill the innocent in Europe and elsewhere.
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" Baltasar Garzon, former judge who tried to open an inquiry into Franco's crimes: "Today a historic barbarity comes to an end.
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"Only fairy tales give evil a proper shape," the authors observe early on, as if to justify the barbarity to follow.
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"There is also the barbarity of the crimes, and the fact that in both cases the victims were fragile women," Halioua said.
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At army headquarters in Kinshasa officers show videos of mounds of mutilated corpses and severed heads to underline the barbarity they face.
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Drones add granular detail and ISIS's death cult videos top off the barbarity in such so close up that few dare watch.
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To add insult to barbarity, they admitted they had killed Till in a magazine, Look; they were paid $3,150 for the story.
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The barbarity described in "Finding Oscar" is stomach-turning, but moments of courage still shine through in this unsettling yet vital documentary.
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"Whitewashing such barbarity will of course injure and wound the conscience of all humanity," he said in translated comments to lawmakers in Ankara.
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A PayPal spokesperson said the has banned Vinland Clothing and Behold Barbarity and confirmed that American Vikings can still accept payment via PayPal.
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ISIS ruled the Syrian city with a barbarity that gripped the world, and women in particular experienced an oppression many never thought imaginable.
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Instead, they are simply riffs on the same loose pool of central themes: corporate oppression, maternal angst, bodily repulsion, the barbarity of Darwinism.
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If this story didn't crystallize the depths of Gilead's barbarity, Offred's interrogation by Aunt Lydia and a member of the Eye cements it.
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The sinking was used to demonstrate German barbarity, and it played a pivotal role in galvanizing the United States to enter the war.
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They said he was a motorbike thief, but we think someone who knew about his sexuality used that excuse to justify that barbarity.
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She has described the Holocaust as the "height of barbarity" and claims to be "the best shield" for Jews in France against "Islamic fundamentalism".
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Unlike the provocations of Malcolm Tucker, the splenetic and foul-mouthed political adviser in "The Thick of It", the barbarity of Stalinism was genuine.
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In 1303 IS swept the heartlands of the Middle East, mesmerising Muslims and non-Muslims alike with the speed and barbarity of its victories.
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PARIS — Last month, the ancient castle of Matrera in southern Spain fell under siege by critics who mocked its unusual restoration as a barbarity.
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" During his seven terms as a lawmaker, Mr. Bolsonaro voted against privatizations, calling the landmark breakup and sale of the telecommunications monopoly a "barbarity.
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On the basis of race alone, even in the absence of any discernible evidence, a person of color is considered a viable provocateur of barbarity.
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An intellectual writing for an elite audience, he did not shy away from "right" and "wrong", even "barbarity", "depravity" and "corruption", in matters of language.
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I felt perverse comfort and sadness when others later told me of their brushes with barbarity: muggings, assaults, sexual violence, being held at gunpoint or knifepoint.
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Adelaide's seeming descent into Tethered-style snarling barbarity feels like a confirmation that there's nothing really separating Us' above-ground people from the below-ground people.
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Almost all of them were murdered in the death camp's gas chambers; just one grisly episode in the six-year saga of Nazi barbarity in Poland.
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He has treated women who have survived sexual violence of a barbarity which words don't capture -- and he has done so despite threats and assassination attempts.
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"Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous," Titus's brother Marcus (Patrick Drury, excellent) advises near the start, only to watch as barbarity becomes the societal benchmark.
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Turkey viewed the strikes positively and the international community should sustain its stance against the "barbarity" of the Syrian government, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said.
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She now tours the world bearing witness to IS's barbarity, and urging the International Criminal Court to prosecute its leaders for the attempted genocide of her people.
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Queen Elizabeth expressed her shock following the "act of barbarity" that claimed the lives of 22 victims at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday night.
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"Notwithstanding our legendary differences with Mr. Mugabe, we have no reason to exhibit barbarity by hosting a national festivity during his funeral," it said in a statement.
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After Russian forces helped the Syrians expel the Islamic State from Palmyra the first time, the Kremlin painted the effort as a victory of civilization over barbarity.
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The story of Auschwitz, as told through the artifacts, will cover the physical location of the camps and their status as symbols of structuralized hatred and barbarity.
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Iraq was called the "Republic of Fear" by a dissident writer, Kanan Makiya; Syria was labelled "The State of Barbarity" by the late Michel Seurat, a French Arabist.
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Bush successfully associated his opponent with the barbarity of this act, by categorizing him as soft on crime, a label which has since become a political death knell.
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What's most striking about his story now, at least in its big-screen iterations, is how the abuse reads as a stand-in for the barbarity of colonialism.
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For many, the image of Ms. Krim's face pressed against the window of an ambulance as she was taken away from a scene of mythic barbarity remains indelible.
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But the barbarity of what happened inside its consulate made Saudi Arabia something like the opposite of the ideal messenger, and its timing could hardly have been worse.
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It portrayed the barbarity of neo-Nazi skinhead culture, shedding light on the pitfalls and consequences of spreading hate, but, couldn't have anticipated how mainstream those beliefs would become.
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The effects of the power vacuum created by this gross dereliction, accelerated the heinous wave of displacement and barbarity that is being played out in the Middle East today.
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The barbarity of displaying human bones seems simple and obvious, but when you factor in race and the historical and contemporary politics of anti-blackness nothing is ever simple.
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So then I thought, maybe one day in the faraway future, there will be technology so advanced that the future-people will gape at the barbarity of status quo.
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Pinker is right to push back against tendencies to view the Enlightenment purely through a dark prism: as the prime driver and fundamental cause of racism, European barbarity, and colonialism.
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The brutal and sudden death of Saleh in the streets of Sana'a was largely viewed as being something of a mistake by many Yemenis and international observers, illuminating their barbarity.
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"We hope that the Polish authorities will not take the lead from extremist-minded politicians and will not implement measures, which indeed are on the verge of barbarity," she added.
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The motive for the massacre is unclear, but its barbarity is not: three women and six children, including infant twins, shot at close range and burned alive in their cars.
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" On a visit to the site of the attack, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief executive of the Afghan government, said it showed "the depth of barbarity and terror of Afghanistan's enemies.
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Mr. Sonboly "wanted to make his mark as an individual" by hacking into Facebook to entice people to McDonald's, "the intertwining of complete barbarity and utter modernism," Mr. Heisbourg said.
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The attack became not just a symbol of the barbarity of the guerrilla conflict but also of the failings of the Colombian authorities to protect its most vulnerable, rural populations.
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And, in an act of barbarity that may or may not be relevant, a dead man is discovered on the High Line with the tips of all 10 fingers chopped off.
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The rawness of the violence is startling, partly because despite "Atomic Blonde" and other female-driven movies, it's still unusual to see a woman receive (and freely mete out) such barbarity.
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After she gained control of the party in 2011, she went on television to declare the Nazi camps "the height of barbarity" — a clear break with years of National Front policy.
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The problem, however, is to convey the power of that resistance, or the barbarity of the violence it faces, in a way that galvanizes action rather than abets the status quo.
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There is also a new translation, by Matthew Amos and Fredrick Rönnbäck, of Pascal Quignard's 21115 book, "The Hatred of Music" (Yale), which explores age-old associations between music and barbarity.
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"After five years of conflict, you might think that the regime has had its fill of barbarity -- that its sick bloodlust against its own people has finally run its course," he said.
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Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday expressed condolences to the victims of the deadly terrorist attack in Manchester, England, calling it "an act of barbarity" and praising emergency responders working at the scene.
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The enmity and barbarity look like a path to the abyss—but the smartphone clips that help to relay them are a form of progress as well as a medium of horror.
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In the Korean war the US imperialists, who had long been trained on misanthropy and racism, revealed their barbarity and brutality to the whole world, far exceeding those of the preceding imperialists.
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But even more important, Congress must compel the release of the SIGAR report on the extent of U.S.-funded child sexual abuse and force an end to U.S. complicity in this barbarity.
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"It ceases to serve as the boundary between civilization and barbarity, between the lands of the Hua and the lands of the Yi," said Mark Elliott, a Qing historian at Harvard University.
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Mendes' film provides a reminder of the distinctly human horrors of war by placing audiences directly in its trenches, the closest many will ever get to watching this level of barbarity themselves.
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At a minimum, the Russian president had a point, said Mr Buchanan, who likewise shared Mr Putin's disapproval of the "barbarity and blood" caused by ill-advised American military actions round the world.
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Instead of mitigating or ameliorating barbarity, her work affords us a modicum of distance from the historical facts, so that we are able to think about them as clearly as we feel them.
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Nadia Murad is a person for whom I have a great deal of respect because her courage and strength in denouncing this barbarity in conflicts, which goes well beyond anything that one can imagine.
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Besides the barbarity of the penalties, there is the danger that the law could nudge neighboring Islamic giants Malaysia and Indonesia toward tightening their own national or regional versions of Shariah laws targeting homosexuals.
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Her thesis is that in the wake of the barbarity of World War II, irrationality became a widespread focus among artists, who wanted to "simulate or stimulate delirium," Ms. Baum writes in the catalog.
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In a response that signaled how fraught any direct talks between the Afghan government and insurgents would be, a former Taliban minister alluded to the barbarity that predated the Taliban government of the 1990s.
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Their seeming normality coupled with the barbarity of the crimes, their insult-to-injury behavior during the trial, their mocking disdain for the grief of the victims' families— 10 families in all— that mystified me.
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"The use of chemical weapons constitutes an unacceptable violation of the convention against chemical weapons and is another example of the barbarity that the Syrian people have been under for so many years," Ayrault said.
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"You have photographs that document the barbarity of these acts of this torture — that this was institutionalized by so many different security services there," former Representative Ed Royce, Republican of California, said in an interview.
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The Indian government has invited bids from private companies to create the registry, as an answer to what it describes as the level of "bestiality and barbarity" of sex offenses in the country, particularly against children.
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To begin with, those rose petals are holdovers from age-old religious rituals of Cambodia, and the very survival of some of the elegant, sophisticated gestures of Cambodian dance is a triumph of art over barbarity.
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You can debate about the potential for abuse in that situation, but it's still weird that that's a 15-yard penalty, on par with illegal helmet hits that remind everyone of the barbarity of the sport.
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The United States faces a bewildering variety of challenges abroad: China's rise, Russia's resurgence, the barbarity of violent extremist groups, the vulnerability of our information networks, and the decline of freedom and liberty around the world.
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"New research published today in the Journal of Pacific Archaeology is now offering a different perspective, showing that the Rapa Nui people maintained a thriving tool-building industry during the time of their alleged descent into "barbarity.
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Unlike other jihadist movements, IS set itself up as a standing challenge to existing structures, an alternative theocratic polity that expunged borders, plumbed new depths of televised barbarity and acted as a magnet for its death-cult.
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After expressing her shock following the "act of barbarity" that claimed the lives of 22 victims at the Ariana Grande concert, Queen Elizabeth stepped out on Wednesday in a show of strength to mark a special anniversary.
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If Greenblatt's story resonates with its many readers, it is surely because it echoes stubborn, made-for-TV representations of medieval "barbarity" that have no business in a nonfiction book, much less one by a Harvard professor.
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" Regarding the systemic exploitation of Black bodies in photography, Mason offered, "These images create false knowledge about backwardness, barbarity, or sensuality of their subjects and continue to be part and parcel of the visual culture of white supremacy.
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Due to the Islamic State's barbarity, the American justice system has been harsh on the 210 people so far who've been convicted of either plotting domestic attacks in the group's name or attempting to reach ISIS-controlled territory.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Leaders of all faiths should unite in renouncing religious extremism and counter the "barbarity of those who foment hatred and violence," Pope Francis said on Friday at the start of a two-day visit to Cairo.
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Undeterred and infuriated by Western accusations of war crimes and barbarity in the aerial assault on Aleppo, the Syrian government and its ally Russia intensively bombed the city in northern Syria on Monday for the fourth consecutive day.
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After losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the most brutal war in history to defeat the barbarity of Nazi Germany and Japanese imperialism, the government of the United States decided not to punish and humiliate the losers.
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In the past two months alone 600,000 Muslim Rohingyas have fled their homes in Rakhine state, carrying tales of barbarity into squalid camps across the border in Bangladesh; plumes of smoke mark the villages from which they were chased.
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" His rage against such barbarity remains: "I don't believe my sorrow and agitation are only projection, for these feelings are not so different to the creeping shame and awe you're subject to at the scene of any violent crime.
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The unsurprising consequence of this shift was a newfound confidence within the Assad regime that it need not worry about paying a heavy price if its forces committed new acts of barbarity aimed at demoralizing the nation's remaining rebels.
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The words Fidel Castro wrote in the guestbook at Hiroshima's site of the world's first atomic bombing when he visited in 2003, "May such barbarity never happen again", were deeply engrained in the hearts of the Japanese, Abe said.
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"After five years of conflict, you might think that the regime has had its fill of barbarity, but the regime and Russia have instead plunged to new depths and unleashed a new hell on Aleppo," UK Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said.
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The footage of the jihadists' barbarity—boys no older than 12 shoot grown men at point-blank range, the heads of opponents are impaled on a fence in the main square—serves to highlight the perilousness of RBSS's self-appointed task.
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These ghosts are activated in the context of the Middle East, in the face of the barbarity of war, destruction, and looting, but they are activated largely in the name of culture, heritage, and appreciation, rather than politics and historicity.
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The importance of Dora's story, Jones has said, is that she lived through a time of unspeakable barbarity, which took the lives of her younger sister and numerous other family members, and yet she emerged free of cynicism and bitterness.
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It feels more makeshift, as if the curators wanted to alert us to other kinds of peril that we are subject to — sexual violence, the vulnerability of crossing borders, homelessness, being subject to the barbarity of police — but were ticking boxes.
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But the main thrust of "The Cove" was animal rights, not endangerment, emphasizing the barbarity of the killing methods, the astonishing intelligence of dolphins and the alleged abuses of the marine-park industry where many of the creatures end up.
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Although there were exceptions, like Dietrich Flade, a city judge who spoke out against the barbarity of witchcraft trials in the 20183s (the minutes of his own trial are at Cornell), the majority of those accused and tortured were women.
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Their financial contribution to the Rebel isn't a minor detail — Levant claims the Rebel is entirely viewer-supported — it's emblematic of whose barbarity you're willing to swallow in order to maintain your social standing, your racial superiority, and your own comfort level.
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"How did a modern country, well-educated, a source of innovation and ingenuity, and a source of moral leadership in the world, descend into that level of barbarity, producing a shame that lives with every single German to this day?" he asked.
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If you ever lose hope in our fundamental humanity when faced with the daily acts of barbarity in Syria, here in this little neighborhood of Amman, you're reminded what it's all about — what we're all about — which is, in the end, one another.
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"Under the laws of war, absent a treaty, there is nothing wrong with coercive interrogation, applying pain, discomfort and other things to make people talk, so long as it doesn't cross the line and involve the gratuitous barbarity involved in torture," Barr said.
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In 1945, as the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps and the full barbarity of Nazi Germany was exposed to the world, no one would have predicted that Hitler's legacy of hate would so quickly rise again from the ashes of the Holocaust.
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Probably. But when the show is working, you lose the sense of safety with which most serials imbue their characters, the reassuringly predictable design of the plot, and feel instead the threat of death and betrayal, the hazards of chance and prevalence of barbarity.
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Confederate monuments in the South, in all of their artistic barbarity and weighty symbolism, are but one kind of commemoration of slavery and white power among many that shape our everyday environments, influence our collective identities and silently signal what our national culture validates.
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"All these victims of horror and barbarity remind us of our responsibility as leaders to reinforce and accelerate security," said Boubou Cisse, who became prime minister in April after his predecessor stepped down following an earlier massacre by Dogon gunmen on a Fulani village in March.
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Klimt's line embodies a painful vulnerability, like an exposed nerve; its transition to the public forum of paint on canvas, in the teeth of overwhelming social change and the industrial barbarity of World War I, was undoubtable fraught and harrowing, but transfigured into excessive, even ecstatic beauty.
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He described reports of "acts of appalling barbarity committed against the Rohingya, including deliberately burning people to death inside their homes, murders of children and adults; indiscriminate shooting of fleeing civilians; widespread rapes of women and girls, and the burning and destruction of houses, schools, markets and mosques".
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We like our wars to have clear moral purpose and unambiguous villains, like the Civil War or World War II. Most wars, however, are like World War I — wars barren of virtue, wars that, as Harvey Cushing wrote here a century ago, reveal civilization as a veneer over barbarity.
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A section called "Masterpieces and Curiosities" focuses on a single object: currently, an extraordinary charm bracelet made by Greta Perlman in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, whose modest bangles (a bullet, a lice comb, a miniature ladle) testify to the endurance of individual creation in the face of barbarity.
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Over the next year as ISIS displayed its barbarity through beheadings and terrorist attacks and captured significant territory in Iraq and Syria, the number of Americans favoring the sending of ground troops rose only slightly – to 49% in a December 2015 poll (CNN/ORC Dec17-21), with the same percentage opposed.
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To be sure, there is nothing wonderful in the first half of the novel, never mind the evidence for the meaning of Bakhita's name, "lucky one" in Arabic, which she is caustically assigned by one of the slave traders who sell and resell her and subject her to unspeakable barbarity.
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In his presentation, Mr. Bannon, then the head of the hard-right website Breitbart News and now Mr. Trump's chief strategist, called on the "church militant" to fight a global war against a "new barbarity" of "Islamic fascism" and international financial elites, with 2,500 years of Western civilization at risk.
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"When there is a difference of 18 percent on average between the salary of men and women, disparity in political positions, and when there is barbarity such as gender violence, it's a sign that there is still much to do in the fight for women's rights," he told the crowd.
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Her work engages with the archive of film reels that capture and store the imagined state as envisioned by Afghan leftists in a context where the nation state appears as a ruin, in the conditions of the disintegration of the old "enlightened" bourgeoisie, and in the face of the barbarity of war.
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"Witnesses in different locations have given concordant reports of acts of appalling barbarity committed against the Rohingya, including deliberately burning people to death inside their homes; murders of children and adults; indiscriminate shooting of fleeing civilians; widespread rapes of women and girls; and the burning and destruction of houses, schools, markets and mosques," Zeid said in Geneva.
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From the anguish and barbarity of the torturer in "Eidolons and the Increate" throughout to the cold and barren desert planet atmosphere of "A Crown of Desolation", we hope the listener finds the peaks and valleys of our compositions to be a satisfying emotional reprieve from the sobering peaks and valleys of our own dark reality.
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It bursts into view in snapshots: the image of a drowned toddler, face down on a Turkish beach as his family fled a war that has killed at least half a million people; the black flags of the Islamic State fluttering, and all the barbarity and fear that accompanied them; the Kurdish girls with guns opposing the jihadists.
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While many of the regimes in the Middle East try to hide their barbarity, will go to great lengths to conceal their violations of human rights, will spend tens of millions of dollars on lobbying and public relations firms to conceal the true nature of their rule, ISIS boasted of its brutality, took pride in its savagery.
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"The barbarity that characterizes these attacks – including the beheading of women and children with machetes, the dismemberment and removal of body parts of the victims as trophies of war – reflects the desire of the attackers to inflict lasting trauma to the Hema communities and to force them to flee and not return to their villages," the report said.
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That day, Lech Kaczynski, beginning a new campaign for president, was traveling to Smolensk in Russia with dozens of political leaders and government officials to attend an event marking the 2000th anniversary of the murder of 245,1003 Polish military officers by the Soviet secret police — a catastrophe that devastated Poland's officer and intellectual class and has reminded Poles ever since of Soviet barbarity.
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The conditions to which the mentally ill are subjected by the institutional options of the day, the routine dismissal and degradation of women by men, the barbarity of white America's genocidal war on the indigenous population, the cycle of sexual abuse that turns victims into victimizers ad infinitum: This episode alone exhibits fist-on-the-table fury about all of it.
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As Anhalt rightly insists, by setting some of his scenes behind enemy lines, among the Trojan fighters and their families — from the ruminations of the sadly regretful Helen to the encounters between Hector, the Trojan super-warrior, and his young son — Homer destabilizes the traditional "them-and-us" culture of the ancient Greek world, and its conventional polarization between civilization and barbarity.
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If the violence in a painting like "Interrogation I" feels timeless, with its jackbooted guards pummeling the above-mentioned naked victim with a steel pipe as he hangs by his feet like Titian's Marsyas or Rembrandt's slaughtered ox, his face obscured by foreshortening, his scrotum beaten to jelly, that impression is derived as much from the inventiveness of the composition — a controlled explosion of diagonals (steel pipe, holster strap, nude legs, rope ends) beside a vertical column of inexplicably untouched canvas — as from the shape-shifting nature of barbarity itself.
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