Parents of children age ten to seventeen were asked whether their child bullies or is cruel or mean to others.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

For example, the reporter Nellie Bly was working for him when she investigated the cruel treatment of patients at a mental hospital.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

They were very cruel. I thought,perhaps this beast can be taught to be my friend...

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The Society's plan ended a cruel life of slavery for many negroes.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Later,Helen learned that nature could be cruel as well as beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Many animal-protection groups and people worldwide have denounced finning as cruel.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

She wanted to show how cruel slavery was.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Cold-blooded people act in cruel ways.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

"There are U.S.troops who are incredibly crass and cruel in their treatment of citizens and journalists as well."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The report concluded that this described activity "constitutes torture" and that it also constitutes "cruel,inhumane and degrading treatment."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Animal welfare activists argue that subjecting chimpanzees to painful,and often lethal, experiments is cruel and inhumane.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Iran's president also defended statements he made last Monday before a U.N.conference in which he called Israel the most cruel and racist regime in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, public support will not last indefinitely, but the cruel irony is to succeed, we need patience,discipline, resolve and time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Instead, he kept youthis fragile little human. It's cruel, really.

VOA: standard.other

But,contemporary forms of slavery are often as cruel and dehumanizing.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In addition,the nine justices will also hear arguments about whether sentencing juveniles to life in prison without paroles for crimes other than murder violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01