Eating dogs, too, is increasingly viewed as barbaric (a 600-year old dog-eating festival in eastern China was cancelled in September after public uproar).
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Raja al-Nasser, one of the organisers of the Syria Salvation Conference, called for an "immediate halt to the shooting, a halt to the brutal and barbaric shelling, a truce and a pause for the fighters".
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The court heard that he did not simply kill but acted in "a barbaric manner".
The European press derided a barbaric American health-care system that left the poor out in the cold.
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Mr Ayine, from the campaign group Afrikids, said he was "saddened that in today's era, a child could lose its life because of such a barbaric practice".
The Romans were severely tested in the three Punic wars but their struggles against a worthy, if barbaric and perfidious, enemy were a necessary feature of their emergence as the dominant power.
Let's be clear: The Islamists are trying to establish a kind of Catch-22: If you point out that they seek to impose a barbaric, repressive and seditious Shariah Law, you are insulting their faith and engaging in unwarranted, racist and bigoted fear-mongering.
And I also want to thank President Obama for his expression of solidarity to the French people in light of the loss that we have felt at the cowardly killing of two young Frenchmen who were killed in a barbaric fashion by terrorists.
The judge told both men they had been convicted of "a truly monstrous and barbaric crime" and described Wade as a "violent dangerous man with no respect for human life or respect for civilised society".
But the Shia Muslim opposition party al-Wefaq said the boy had been the victim of a "barbaric" attack.
As it turns out, because of a senseless and barbaric act, Luis is going back to Mexico after all -- for burial.
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As Bai peers out from her domestic prison at the majestic mountain vistas, they look like a wasteland of barbaric ignorance and official oppression.
It would only be fair, however, to note that they will be able to exercise that right because coalition forces liberated them from a tyrannical, barbaric regime that never would have permitted such freedom of expression.
It believes that Mr Sharon's "barbaric actions should surprise nobody, for once a terrorist, always a terrorist".
It saddens me that in the 21st century a few mindless police officers used barbaric abuse when arresting my son.
They call castration barbaric and feel that it gives the public a false sense of security by playing to people's desire for an easy solution to a complex problem, .
What we went through as a family because of her illness was barbaric.
"We are in a shock and deep grief over this barbaric act, " AFP quoted the Pakistani high commission spokesman Manzoor Ali Memon as saying.
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Fortunately, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world do not wish to live under a brutally repressive, woman-demeaning, barbaric and totalitarian program.
They know that a political evacuation would only intensify the current anarchy and create a power vacuum to be filled by such barbaric factions as the anti-Semitics of the Muslim Brotherhood, who want rights-violating Sharia law imposed in Egypt and elsewhere in the region.
So barbaric was their treatment that it was said you could smell a slave ship from ten-miles away, and it was estimated that of every 1000 slaves transported a minimum of 168 would die en route, usually a lot more.
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The real enemy, on the other hand, whether you call it radical Islam, Islamofascism, Islamism or whatever is a militant millenarian doctrine seeking to impose Islamic rule and barbaric shariah doctrine worldwide.
Around 180, 000 locals had signed a petition saying bullfighting, known as corrida de toros, was barbaric and only really popular with tourists.
Or you want to rant about how barbaric and foolish gun owners are and how the Second Amendment was written in a totally different period in history.
The camp, now a museum in Poland, has called the alleged theft an "unimaginably barbaric act".
"This barbaric murder could have been even more tragic, as it was carried out while a very young child was in the car, " she said.
That is bad enough in itself, but when it continues 12 times a year for around 25 years, most people would agree it is barbaric.
Indeed, if you judge by the available polling data, a Russian government that was truly reflective of the popular will would treat gays in an absolutely dreadful manner, a manner which, to be perfectly clear, I personally consider abhorrent and barbaric.
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In two-and-a-half years, he has driven al-Qaeda into hiding, toppled two barbaric regimes and induced several other roguish states (including Iran and Libya) to rethink their ways.
For its part, Texas is often seen as a red-neck state, famous for public policies that strike most Americans as utterly barbaric, from allowing people to carry guns in houses of worship (unless signs specifically forbid the practice) to letting oil firms dictate environmental policies.
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