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Example sentences for: brutal

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One of the lessons of the long Cold War was that short-term gains in cooperating with the most repressive and brutal governments were too often outweighed by long-term setbacks for America's stature and interests.
A photo essay vividly depicts the brutal rite of genital mutilation in Uganda.
In a passage about the mayor's dictatorial, brutal style, the text calls him "Rudolf."
A recent cover story argued that the bombing was dubious because a) the United States was just as brutal in Vietnam as the Serbs are now; b) the United States ignores similarly horrific ethnic cleansings in Turkey, Rwanda, etc.; and c) U.S. policy is being driven by corporate interests.
It predicts a brutal worldwide depression, leading to totalitarianism and world war.