But shooting and trapping foxes to control numbers can be cruel too.

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Yet amid this success stands a cruel irony: too many American schools are still separate and unequal, with black and Latino students often stuck in rotten, overcrowded, underfunded classrooms.

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History has been cruel to Verrazzano, too.

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Brady replied too, but in his sick, cruel fashion he refused to tell her anything.

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"I still think that pushing a child too much could also could be quite cruel and unfair, " she says.

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The old man sat next to me, perhaps too tired to continue his tirade against cruel Fate, careless Americans, war and its accidents.

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It was cruel, he thought, to make things too comfortable for someone going down in life.

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Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.

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Sure, life can seem cruel and unjust at times, but every once in a while, it can go the other way too.

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