Sentences with phrase «brutal treatment by»

Fear of disease left stray dogs victim to brutal treatment by the public, while healthy dogs faced the risk of being put to work pulling carts or forced into fights against other dogs.

Claire Bass, HSI's U.K. director, said: «These poor creatures have experienced the very worst of humanity — brutal treatment by dog traders, crammed onto the back of a truck with hundreds of other terrified animals, only to end up at a slaughterhouse in Yulin.

The children's accounts of the visions were consistent and they did not flinch under considerable pressure from their families and others, and even under some rather brutal treatment by the local authorities.

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The aboriginal cause went far beyond redressing the very brutal and horrific legacy of treatment of Australian aborigines by colonists.

But I will never believe in the religion, nor its hypocrisies, outdated dietary rules, misogynistic origins, brutal treatment of baby boys, nor the silly practices + clothing favored by the orthodox, much less the Hasidim.

It exported material goods and brutal treatment which were not neutralized by the self - denying work of a few missionaries.

So the Sunday stage belonged exclusively to a pair of underdogs who have minuscule Q ratings but were exceedingly easy to root for: Ted Purdy, who endured an eight - year exile on the Asian and Nationwide tours and finally last year, at age 30, earned a place on the PGA Tour, only to be haunted by a pair of tournaments that he let slip away; and 22 - year - old Sean O'Hair, whose boyish smile and gentle manner belie the brutal treatment he had to endure from a father obsessed with driving his son to success.

Compstat meetings could resemble brutal cross examinations; some commanders, not used to such treatment, put in their retirement papers after grillings by top NYPD brass, said one law enforcement expert who witnessed some sessions.

She acknowledges the progress made by reducing brutal mandatory sentencing and zero - tolerance interpretations of the law but believes we have further to go by increasing research funding and expanding treatment programs.

Captured by the Japanese navy, Zamperini was brought to a Tokyo based POW camp where he came in for especially brutal treatment from a sadistic camp commander.

Disappointed by his own inability to rise in the ranks of leadership, he takes pleasure in torturing his captives with brutal beatings and cruel treatment.

Some germans working at the camp were more sympathetic than others but The treatment by the SS women in Ravensbrück was normally brutal.

It's fairly effective storytelling and the tale is well told, not shying away from the brutal treatment of Soviet troops by their officers.

The Lowitja Institute welcomes the swift action by the Federal Government in announcing a Royal Commission into Northern Territory juvenile detention in response to the brutal treatment of children detained in the Northern Territory criminal justice system, aired in the ABC Four Corners program on Monday 25 July.