Don't be cruel.

People can be cruel.

Children can be cruel.

Many Confucian emperors were brutal.

How can you be so cruel?

He was involved in a skirmish with a violent gang.

Parents shouldn't let children be cruel to animals.

Witnessing cruelty to animals, children may become cruel.

Defense wants case dismissed on grounds that Manning's confinement was harsh

In a widespread Palestinian view, suicide bombing creates a balance of terror that may, over time, neutralize Israel's superior firepower.

This extends to suicide bombing, an immoral and cruel act of terror.

Religious politics, or politics based on religious faith, are not invariably violent, even in the Islamic world.

The technologies of the Internet were thought to fragment societal forces rather than unite them in a common cause. And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.

And the regimes were considered to be too brutal, as we see tragically in Libya, to go down without a fight.

Armenian news site Panorama explained some of the troubling factors behind the Azerbaijani government's crackdown

With brutal crackdowns in Syria, a bloody civil war in Libya, and Yemen teetering on the brink of chaos, the number of skeptics is growing.

(Calderóntook three courses from me unfortunately, dealing with violent drug lords was not on my syllabus.)

Granted, Stalin's urges were bloody and violent, but the impulse to upset the applecart on a whim remains incredibly familiar to Russians.

These aberrations add insult to the injury of women, undefended and without justice, who have been raped in the normal course of events by violent nobodies.

Indeed, Iraqi children are exposed to beating without regard for their age and for myriad reasons, thus growing up insecure, hostile, and violent.

I see how boys have been brought up, and I see this across the planet to be tough, to be hardened, to distance themselves from their tenderness, to not cry.

The Western countries, Turkey, and most of the Arab world are incensed by the brutal killing and destruction, and pressure to intervene and stiffen international sanctions is building.

Older children sit in classrooms with much younger children, growing frustrated and violent, rather than becoming role models for others to emulate.

The rebels, who reduced Qaddafi s birthplace to rubble, were in some cases as ruthlessly brutal as the men against whom they were fighting.

December 19, the 2010 presidential election day in Belarus, ended in mass protests, arrests and violent clashes with the riot police in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Being a nation that has survived many violent political turmoils, you are keenly aware when your country s policies and society are undergoing fundamental changes.

It has attracted thousands of youth from around the world, who have been indoctrinated in its extreme ideology, which even the notorious Al Qaeda has found brutal.

They were savage colonial conflicts under the Czar and almost genocidal under Stalin, who deported the whole Chechen population, a third of which perished during their transfer to the Gulag.

Because females continue facing abuse and violent attacks for seeking education, it takes a lot of bravery to be a schoolgirl in Afghanistan.

Government officials were held accountable for actions that were usually beyond the reach of the law, ranging from brutal beatings of journalists, to illegal confinement for national security.

Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be bad tempered, with vetoes by individual member states looming large.

Africa Confidential highlighted the case in a piece about Mozambique elections, which although mostly peaceful were marred by a handful of violent incidents and attempts to manipulate the vote.

Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans towards both animals and other humans, showing how humans may live dark or even hideous lives.

Nonetheless, today s Saudi princes appear to recognize that something has genuinely changed in the Middle East The younger generation of Arabs is no longer prepared to accept unaccountable, corrupt, and brutal governments.

Choi has had a knack for drawing since he was a kid, when teachers praised him for his sketches of evil American soldiers that he says he made look as ugly and violent as possible.

The third is less honorable, and likely to fail it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power s political adversaries will be more public spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.

If criminal prosecution is too blunt an instrument to use against violent video games, there is a case for awarding damages to the victims, or families of the victims, of violent crimes committed by people who play violent video games.

Outside the Great Firewall, about 300 mainland Chinese political liberals and overseas dissidents have co signed a statement condemning Jack Ma's talk about the cruel and rightful decision of the June 4 Crackdown in 1989 and demanding Ma make a public apology.

So situations have the power to do, through but the point is, this is the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation.

The largest acts of international terror, including the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, DC, and the 2008 Mumbai attack, were carried out by brutal transnational Sunni organizations (Al Qaeda and Lashkar e Taiba, respectively).

However crude the jokes or ridiculous the parallels drawn, it's interesting how Russians online seem convinced the events in Ferguson are but a mirror image of the situation in Russia and in Ukraine, where Russia plays a prominent part.