Conditions in Gaza are harsh and the population does suffer.

But punishment could be harsh.

The simple fact is that humanity faces a stark choice.

In response to the severe conditions, there was resistance among the populace.

Maybe that is too harsh an assessment of Africa s nascent democracies.

Maiming of animals by their owner falls under the Cruelty to Animals Acts.

Try to imagine strictly by invitation and there's a small percentage gaining entry when they pass ah lil kakadang for them hungry officers.

He was strongly opposed to any kind of cruelty to animals, including setting traps.

How has this come to pass? Why have the hopes of Gorbachev s glasnost been so cruelly snuffed out?

As French cities have burned, other countries have been very severe in judging France.

NEW DELHI April might be the cruelest month, but, for India s major political parties this year, March was fairly brutal.

The wanton cruelty there is all too clearly symptomatic of a systemic failure.

Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns aren't the only potential consequences of climate change.

This inter state rivalry at times bordering on acrimony is what makes the politics of European integration difficult.

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty elsewhere.

Granted, the term sounds archaic but the Torah is the first systematic legislation that forbids cruelty to animals and mandates that they be treated with consideration and respect.

In those circumstances, it is harsh to say to a couple that they cannot have their own genetic child at all.

Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh. But few financial professionals have been fooled.

Many observers argue that Russians are not having enough children because life is so harsh.

Indeed, Bahraini security forces have been ruthless in their attacks against demonstrators, killing six.

Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.

But what may be desirable under extreme conditions for a single country can be highly detrimental to the world economy.

Two women's rights organizations, the 'Women's Initiative Against Debt and Austerity Measures' and the 'Independent Women's Movement', have started to raise awareness of these incidents

Sobule The Old Testament God can be so petty. Sweeney Don't get me started on that.

American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.

While the Western powers have embraced ever harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.

NEW YORK China has been widely criticized for its harsh treatment of almost any form of political dissent in Tibet.

It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

And so, the question is If there's so much non zero sumness, why has the world not yet been suffused in love, peace, and understanding?

The Japanese occupation of China was a particularly galling and humiliating period because Japan was an Asian, not a Western, power.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that his country s fiscal trajectory is dangerously unsustainable, and he has proposed draconian cuts.

Some point as a cause of Putin s absence to recent tensions between Russia and the United States arising from Putin s increasingly harsh response to the protests by his opponents at home.

With so many people in Iraq suffering so much in so many ways, it may seem callous to discuss the economic costs.

The drone strategy constitutes a campaign of terror highly effective terror in which even funerals of drone victims have been targeted.

But if interest rates don t rise far enough, the value of the dollar will spiral downward and US inflation will spiral upward like in the 1970 s, setting the stage for the type of extremely painful measures imposed by then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

COPENHAGEN A girl born in South Asia or sub Saharan Africa faces a cruel double burden.

The Jiajing Emperor was known to be a cruel and self aggrandizing emperor and he also chose to reside outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing so he could live in isolation.

Transferring her from a positive multicultural society to a bicultural society with recent racist experiences would be extremely cruel , the effects of which would be compounded by her family being economically crippled .

In that context, particular attention should be paid to the need to abrogate draconian laws and similar legal or administrative measures that allow arbitrary detention, torture and extrajudicial executions.

The penalties for Australia's child sex tourism are very high, reflecting the seriousness with which the Australian Government regards such offences.

And of course, our change in standards can outpace the change in behavior. One of the reasons violence went down is that people got sick of the carnage and cruelty in their time.

(d) The growing number of executions in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards, and in particular deplores public and especially cruel executions, such as stoning

Despite countless sacrifices in the face of the drone strikes arbitrary cruelty, the resolve of the tribal areas people remains undented.

This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.

Over the years, Puerto Rican political prisoners too had also suffered torture, including solitary confinement, pressure to renounce their political convictions and various forms of hardship.