Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman dismissed it as either barbarism or decadence.
What if the true meaning of Rome is not justice but injustice, not civilization but institutionalized barbarism?
"He is accused of torture, acts of barbarism and illegal detention, " prosecutor Massingaral Kagah told the AFP news agency.
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And, of course, we have a ready-made rationalization for this barbarism as well: Kids, we say, know that it's not real.
He was influenced by a contemporary, Maulana Maudoodi in India, who was also repelled by modernity and saw it as barbarism.
Sadly for Olien and her erudite justification of barbarism, it is far from clear that the victims of January's violence were Muslims.
Ann Widdecombe, one of the few anti-hunt Tory MPs, urged MPs to seize the best chance to years to "ban that barbarism" completely.
This hope was gradually replaced by frustration, however, and Erdogan soon began to condemn the "barbarism" and "savagery" of the Syrian regime.
Its strength derives in part from the architectural barbarism of the post-war years, when Victorian terraces were bulldozed and replaced with brutalist blocks.
Stalin established a hideous system of slavery inside his empire--the Gulag Archipelago, a series of concentration camps of barbarism and death that defy comprehension.
He said "Romeo and Juliet" is a fast and urgent play and both families are barely able to conceal a deep well of barbarism.
Rather, they are a sign of emotional, intellectual, and moral barbarism.
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The six million men, women and children exterminated by the Nazis belonged to a great people not predestined to martyrdom, but the victim of gratuitous barbarism.
In television, radio, newspapers, and textbooks, Arafat has created the psychic infrastructure that sustains his endless war on Israel and gives us the barbarism in the cave.
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Iran's decision to revert to domestic barbarism is just one aspect of the regime's strategy for terrorizing its people sufficiently to quell all pockets of resistance to its rule.
These were a matter of great surprise and rather unbelievable for the people who had not only become used to the barbarism of those kings but also became their admirers.
The barbarism perpetrated on March 11, 2004, has left a deep imprint of pain on our collective memory, an imprint that stays with us as a homage to the victims.
We have a lot fewer Muslims than Europe and most of them are professional, economically successful people that should not be susceptible to Islamist hate-spewing, shariah barbarism and caliphate fantasies.
"Accordingly, the United States' Nato allies stand ready to provide the assistance that may be required as a consequence of these actions of barbarism, " a statement by the Nato council said.
In the 1930s Nazi barbarism was discounted because of the shocking World War I stories about the behavior of German troops: After all, weren't those tales of German atrocities against the Belgians wildly exaggerated?
The US wisely capitalized on tribal leaders' disaffection with al-Qaida barbarism and worked with them to launch an offensive against al-Qaida forces and to bring the Sunni tribes into the political processes in Iraq.
He unflinchingly depicts the barbarism on both sides.
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Since then, sharia finance has been closely linked with the rise of radical Islam in pursuing two related objectives: legitimization of sharia barbarism in the Muslim world and the West and financing extremism and terrorism.
Remember the moralizing Europeans? ( See here.) Mr. Obama is nonetheless complicating the task of U.S. terror fighters, and encouraging further barbarism, by extending the laws of war to terrorists who hold combat restrictions in contempt.
Though we East Timorese have been at the receiving end of Indonesia's barbarism, I have urged the U.S. administration to provide strategic leadership and vision to help rescue the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea.
Tarantino's plantations are nearly empty farms with well-dressed Negresses in flowing gowns, frolicking on swings and enjoying leisurely strolls through the grounds, as if the setting is Versailles, mixed in with occasional acts of barbarism against slaves.
This is an unforgivable act of barbarism.
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They said that their parents had taken them, that they had witnessed an unholy union of recital and insurrection, of sex and barbarism, and that they remained, however many years later, unsettled and even inspired by the memory.
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