cruel treatment
Example Sentences
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Audiences are reconsidering mid-2000s pop cultural events like the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction seen ’round the world at the Super Bowl halftime in 2004, and the media’s cruel treatment of Britney Spears, Timberlake’s ex-girlfriend.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024
“This cruel treatment of wild horses in unacceptable and far below the standard that Americans expect for these iconic animals,” she said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2023
In their application for emergency measures, Canada and the Netherlands asked the court to order Syria to stop all acts of torture and cruel treatment and end arbitrary detentions, among other things.
From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2023
The Geneva Convention - international rules intended to limit the savagery of war - prohibits the torture, killing or cruel treatment of prisoners, while also offering protections to wounded and sick soldiers.
From BBC • May 30, 2023
That patient suffering under unjust and cruel treatment from mankind is everywhere in the gospel held up to view as the highest Christian virtue probably few professing Christians will deny.
From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by Dodge, David Low
