Banditry has increased and has become ferocious. Attacks can flare up.

His trials were always marked by extreme brutality.

The world knows about Indian barbarism in Kashmir.

I've heard enough about your brutal killings.

The international energy technology market is brutal and competitive.

The British media have been described as feral (a word used by Tony Blair, among others).

When you're faced with brutality, whether it's a child facing a bully on a playground or domestic violence or, on the streets of Syria today, facing tanks and shrapnel, what's the most effective thing to do?

51. The implications of the situation outlined above demonstrate the nature of those who initiate and carry on a war of this kind, the effects of which are largely inhumane.

Cramped by the confines of their barren, icebound northlands, they exploited their skill as shipbuilders to spread a reign of terror then unequalled in violence and brutality in all the records of history.

But its second name is Israel, the only successful modern country in the Middle East, which is also highly militarized, an occupying power, and ruthless in defense of its interests.

These intra State conflicts have been marked by extreme savagery, each day offering new evidence of how cruel and dangerous a place the world remains for so many of its people.

(d) We will give especially high priority to the investigation of certain particularly heinous instances of human rights violation, and in particular of massacres and killings which have occurred on several occasions and have caused public indignation

He described as savage and brutal the crowding together of some 16,000 Haitians in the Guantánamo naval base, a part of Cuban territory that was being shamelessly used on the basis of out of date, unjust and arbitrary agreements.