[permalink] [id link]
The brutality and corruption of the Roman recruiting centurions brought already deep discontent in the Batavi homeland to the boil.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
brutality and corruption
Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption.
Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption.
But scandal soon followed, with stories of corruption and brutality, and in 1907 Chancellor Bülow appointed Bernhard Dernburg to reform the colonial administration.
He suggested that " A democratic Iraq would be a beacon for human rights throughout the Middle East ; giving the Arab people their first taste of freedom in a region that is dominated by semi-feudal Islamic fundamentalist dictatorships, notorious for their brutality, nepotism and corruption.
* The 1950 Chain Gang starred Douglas Kennedy ( actor ) as a reporter working as a guard to expose corruption and brutality.
In the Ostland, matters were further complicated by the personality of the local superior SS officer Friedrich Jeckeln, attacked by the SS's opponents for his alleged corruption, brutality and mindless foolhardiness.
The demonstrations and riots were reported to have started over police brutality, state of emergency laws, unemployment, desire to raise the minimum wage, lack of housing, food inflation, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, and poor living conditions.
Gonzalo, Juan and his younger brother Hernándo ruled Cuzco with dictatorship, greed, corruption, and brutality, torturing and executing those who refused to accept Spanish rule.
This is because Mr. II is not afraid to tell it like it is, undertaking sensitive issues of concern to many Tanzanians such as democracy, child prostitution, police brutality and corruption .< ref >
Serpico still speaks out against police corruption and brutality.
With corruption scandals, an economy in tatters, rumors of a right-wing coup and a civil war that did not appear to have a solution, the government became ineffective, unstable and unable to stop the indiscriminate violence and brutality.
There were also suspicions and reports of colonial malfeasance, corruption and brutality in some protectorates, and Lutheran and Roman Catholic missionaries dispatched disturbing reports to their mission headquarters in Germany.
The oppressed and marginalized working classes were very susceptible to an ideology attacking institutions they perceived to be oppressive, namely: the state with its corruption and brutality, capitalism with its gross divide between wretched poverty and grand wealth, and the supremely powerful and coercive institution of organized religion.
In a mix of righteous fury and tactical skills, Orion took them down, arrested the leader, and then forced his way into the Grand Imperium: he made a defiant speech against the Senate's corruption and brutality, saying his eyes had been opened by Megatron.
Police brutality and political corruption are prevalent.
Still idealistic and unworldly, Kelderek is dismayed by the brutality and corruption that quickly surrounds him.
Almost two decades later, a review in the DVD Times called the film " A sun-bleached study in corruption and soul-destroying brutality, this film by the notoriously erratic but sometimes brilliant William Friedkin is nasty, cynical and incredibly good.
However, during his tenure, the LAPD was rocked by a corruption and police brutality scandal involving the elite C. R. A. S. H.
The film deals with themes of police brutality and corruption and justice.
It is suggested in this work that the corruption and brutality tolerated under King's administration were contributing factors to the high level of violence in the riot.
It also functions more generally as an attack on police corruption and brutality and the police's support for a capitalist system.
Patrick also carried on the family traditions of corruption and brutality that had characterised his father's dealings on Orkney, and those of Laurence Bruce on Shetland.
Today's corruption is characterized by brutality, theft, abuse of authority and active police criminality.
Consequently the administration of Transcaspia became a byword for corruption and brutality within Russian Turkestan, as Russian administrators turned their districts into petty fiefdoms and extorted money from the local population.
brutality and Roman
Philip found himself with few active allies in Greece, but there was little enthusiasm for the Roman cause either, the Greeks remembering the frequent brutality of the legions during the First Macedonian War.
Kabaka Mutesa I was known for his brutality and used the rivalries of the Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Muslims against each other to try to balance the influences of the powers that backed each group.
brutality and brought
At the same conference, the African National Congress President General Alfred Bitini Xuma along with delegates of the South African Indian Congress brought up the issue of the brutality of Smuts ' police regime against the African Mine Workers ' Strike earlier that year as well as the wider struggle for equality in South Africa.
Introduced as an ally, then successor to Captain Atom, Force's brutality betrayed his government-concocted role of superhero and brought him in frequent conflict with Atom.
The Philadelphia Tribune, the city ’ s black newspaper, ran several articles on police brutality which often resulted in white policemen who were brought up on charges of brutality being acquitted.
Guard and patrol duty in the border areas brought the battalion near the brutality of war and served to harden the men of the unit.
Staff Sergeant McKeon was brought to court martial amidst a howl of public condemnation about the " brutality " of Marine Corps training.
brutality and already
I thought, you little brute, you nasty, selfish, little beast, with brutality already developed within that brain and in those eyes.
## The Persians: 224 – 641 " Historically, the conquest destroyed the outward form of what had already inwardly decayed ; it cleared away with regrettable brutality and thoroughness a system of life which, with all its gifts of order, culture, and law, had worn itself into senile debility, and had lost the powers of regeneration and growth.
But he was unable to undo much of the damage Graziani's brutality had already done.
Formed by various community members already involved in Food Not Bombs, in the summer of 2003, the collective worked on a wide range of projects and issues, but were especially focused on the homeless, working poor, and around police brutality / harassment issues.
brutality and deep
Bartov wrote no German film of the 1950s showed the deep commitment felt by many German soldiers to National Socialism, the utter ruthless way the German Army fought the war and the mindless nihilist brutality of the later Wehrmacht.
* Dumb Martian tells of a Human and his Martian ' wife ' out deep in space, far away from civilisation and the man's slow descent into brutality and madness.
brutality and .
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
Goethe believed that the Germanic spirit, with its grave strength but flagrant streaks of brutality and intolerance, should be tempered with the old sensuous wisdom and humanism of the Hellenic.
Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.
Pip first learns `` the stupendous power of money '' from the sycophantic tailor, Mr. Trabb, whose brutality to his boy helper exactly matches the financial resource of each new customer, and whose fawning hands touch `` the outside of each elbow '' and `` rub '' Pip out of the shop.
He had what was described by a psychologist as a `` sunny brutality ''.
Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.
`` La Dolce Vita '' has none of the senseless brutality or sadism of the average TV Western.
But by 1908 its record of brutality had touched the national conscience.
Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality.
Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.
I could see the happiness in the boy's eyes, the gleeful brutality.
Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.
Police brutality allegedly still goes largely unreported, while observers note that defendants are often beaten to extract confessions and are denied visits from relatives and lawyers.
Husband and wife quarrelled with the brutality of the age and came to open war, even placing Urraca under siege at Astorga in 1112.
* 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality ( d. 2012 )
At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.
However, he came to " glory " as much as he did brutality by repelling invading Carthaginians and winning the loyalty of the denizens of his land.
Thorkell the Tall was appalled at the brutality of his fellow raiders, and switched sides to the English king Æthelred the Unready following Ælfheah's death.
Police have subsequently been accused of brutality, torture and interference with the non-violent protests as a collateral damage provoked by the clash between the law enforcement ranks themselves and the more violent and brutal fringes of protesters, who repeatedly hid themselves amongst peaceful protesters of all ages and backgrounds.
There is a sense of an intimate knowledge of the Babylonian brutality in 1: 12-17.
They soon gained a reputation for brutality, as the RIC campaign against the IRA and Sinn Féin members was stepped up and police reprisals for IRA attacks were condoned by the government.
In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.
Simultaneous movements like the Young Lords, to empower youth, question patriarchy, democratize the Church, end police brutality, and end the Vietnam War, all intersected with other ethnic nationalist, peace, countercultural, and feminist movements.
But there was a problem ; Stalin was known for his brutality.
0.538 seconds.