Did he commit acts in an 18th century war that we would consider atrocious in the current world of peace and political correctness?

Both the Novo Ecijanos and Americans were willing to resort to brutal tactics, torture and even atrocious killings in the course of the war.

*" Uganda's atrocious war " at the BBC

He regarded " man-stealing as an atrocious crime which would introduce amongst the English settlers people who would remain forever restive and alien ," but he also believed that

In response to the Michael Stone case and other widely publicised reports of mentally ill people committing atrocious crimes, the government wanted to allow those diagnosed with schizophrenia or personality disorders with a tendency towards violence to be detained against their will in mental health hospitals without having actually committed a crime.

Similarly, in Maynard v. Cartwright,, the Court found that an " especially heinous, atrocious or cruel " standard in a homicide case was too vague.

Plotinus was unable to revise his own work due to his poor eyesight, yet his writings required extensive editing, according to Porphyry: his master's handwriting was atrocious, he did not properly separate his words, and he cared little for niceties of spelling.

Though the speech was not published in the USSR for a long time, it was a break with the most atrocious practices of the Gulag system ; Solzhenitsyn was aware, however, that the outlines of the system had survived and could be revived and expanded by future leaders.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

Within that period United States soldiers, while committing no offense, had been perfidiously attacked and inhumanly murdered in your streets ; no punishment had been awarded, and I believe, no arrests had been made for these atrocious crimes ; supplies of provisions intended for this garrison had been stopped ; the intention to capture this fort had been boldly proclaimed ; your most public thoroughfares were daily patrolled by large numbers of troops, armed and clothed, at least in part, with articles stolen from the United States ; and the Federal flag, while waving over the Federal offices, was cut down by some person wearing the uniform of a Maryland officer.

Harry had atrocious behaviour but was taken in hand by an elder sister Sara.

Between eight and nine occurred in Tudela and the reaction of surprise, the surprise was audacious, atrocious confusion, but the reaction was furious and energetic, yet made in the worst conditions.

Rock Power was not fond of Hellhammer either-they considered it " the most terrible, abhorrent, and atrocious thing ‘ musicians ’ were ever allowed to record ".

The district was historically one of the poorest, most overcrowded and most crime-ridden in London: a parliamentary report of 1838 described it as harbouring " an extremely immoral population ; women of the lowest character, receivers of stolen goods, thieves and the most atrocious offenders ".

He also plays the violin rather well in the movie, whereas the book series stated Basil's violin playing was atrocious — instead, Basil played the flute.

Orders are issued forbidding slave traffic in Kafirs, for it was alleged that after the victories in the Bashgal Valley at the beginning of the year certain captives were reduced to an atrocious form of slavery.

But having quickly perceived how atrocious the system adopted by the Jacobins was, she chose to retrace her steps.

Kornheiser said on the show that if at all possible, he would like to avoid traveling to the city of Seattle again since each time he went there, the weather was atrocious ( such as the downpour and wind that was constant in week 9 against Oakland and the snowstorm in week 12 against Green Bay ).

Nathanson, who was Jewish, also called abortion " the most atrocious holocaust in the history of the United States.

The weather was atrocious for both sides but von Neipperg reached Neisse first and set up camp there.

Riding into the fire of five infantry companies and an artillery battery, the squadron suffered atrocious casualties ( more than half of the men in C Squadron were killed ), and Flowerdew himself was fatally wounded.

Horner harshly criticised both Yared's score and Yared personally, calling the score " atrocious ", and saying " And it wasn't because Gabriel's not a gifted writer, it's because he just doesn't have any knowledge of writing film scores.

This atrocious deed by Lysimachus and his family arouses great indignation.

Although commonly referred to as " the curse of the Atreides ", the circle of atrocious events began two generations before Atreus and continued for two generations after him, before being formally absolved by the Furies in court.

During their journey, he atrocious kills many demons by his rake usually with nine blood-spurting holes on their head.

" According to Ilan Pappé, these took place in the context of an ethnic cleansing that " carr with it atrocious acts of mass killing and butchering of thousands of Palestinians were killed ruthlessly and savagely by Israeli troops of all backgrounds, ranks and ages.

On April 9, 2000, in a speech before a Self-Defense Forces group, Ishihara publicly stated that atrocious crimes have been committed repeatedly by illegally entered sangokujin ( Japanese: 三国人 ( third country national ); a term commonly viewed as derogatory ) and foreigners, and speculated that in the event a natural disaster struck the Tokyo area, they would be likely to cause civil disorder.

Parents who tried to break into the school and protect their children from Prussian teachers were punished later by a Prussian court stating that their actions were " atrocious acts against the state ".

English historian Edward Gibbon writes that " he justified this atrocious deed by the design which his predecessor had formed of violating his alliance with the empire.

However, these noble characteristics are accompanied by others that seem surprisingly backwards in the eyes of species they consider evolutionarily inferior: arrogance, inflexibility, sexism, and an atrocious attitude towards the disabled, whom they label vecols and treat as outcasts.

With center-left tenentes out of the coalition and the left crushed, Vargas turned to the only mobilized base of support on the right, elated by the atrocious, fascist-style crackdown against the ANL.

Lehrer's argument for rewriting the song is that folk songs in general are " so atrocious, because they're written ' by the people '," and that the original Clementine has " no recognizable merit whatsoever.

In April 2009 the BBC news and Times newspapers covered a No Sweat fashion parade outside Primark's flagship Oxford St store-an event organised in response to recent outcry over the company's atrocious labour policies and relationships with subsidiary contractors who make regular use of child labour, as highlighted by the BBC's in 2006.

The 1963 rugby league Grand Final was won by the St. George Dragons 8-3 in front of 69, 860 fans in atrocious conditions.

Allan Moffat, who had won the H-F 500 the previous two years in a row, was unable to withstand the immense pressure placed on him by Brock in his XU-1, in which the Torana proved more than a match for the ultimate Phase Three GT-HO in the atrocious conditions.

Others hated and feared him: in 1927 the year of his early release, in one of the first foreign publications about the Solovetsky Islands, it was written by the French anti-communist Raymond Duguet that, " thanks to his horribly insensitive initiatives, millions of unhappy people are overwhelmed by terrible labour, by atrocious suffering.

" an execrable army, more atrocious than the pagans, neither fearing God nor regarding man, spread desolation over the whole province and slaughtered everywhere people of either sex, of every age and rank, destroying, pillaging and burning towns, churches and houses ".

In an April 7, 2010, article he wrote that Harry Truman perpetrated " the most atrocious act of terrorism in world history when he annihilated the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Schlesser's almost recklessly caused fatal accident at Rouen Les Essarts and the 1968 German Grand Prix run in atrocious rain and fog at the dangerous and long Nurburgring, a race that was even questioned at the start to be run in the almost intolerable conditions.

In 1851 the return of a fugitive slave from Boston back to the southern states caused her to say of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that the United States had " committed an atrocious act ... against humanity, against itself, against God.

One witness recalled that " he conduct of the Russian soldiers is atrocious, the French are not much better, and the Japanese are looting and burning without mercy ".

" The goose idol very much worshipped by them is cast of copper in the shape of a goose, its atrocious abode is in the Belogorye village on the great river of Ob.

The frenzy ones thought that the atrocious monster is especially horrifying in the darkness and in the large waters, that he comes through all the depths where he watches over all fish and aquatic animals and gives everyone as much as he pleases.