“Far from providing respect for and a defence of their community, their actions degrade and brutalise them.”

“Despite joint anti-LRA operations by the governments of Sudan, Uganda and DRC, the LRA has continued to brutalise and abduct civilians.”

“During my visits to conflict-affected areas, I have witnessed how armed conflict can tear children's lives apart, uproot them and brutalise them.”

“Thus, to achieve the retributive satisfaction they crave, they brutalize their victims still more.”

“They promised not to harm them, not to torture or brutalize them.”

“In the vacuum created by weak or failed governments, non-state actors sometimes intimidate and brutalize benign populations into submission.”

“The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas.”

“That he is a violent and brutal man there can be no doubt, but brutalised and a victim too.”

“I felt trapped within a stupid, rotten, dishonest system which brutalised people too naive to know any better, consumed our idealism.”

“War has brutalized our families in the same way it haunted and destroyed our homes and streets.”

“The fact that nonviolent people are brutalized and destroyed for life in prisons is met with a shrug.”

“As I reached the door I saw my roommate on the ground, and saw him being brutalized and thrown around by the bouncers, so I stormed in.”

“The soil in America being covered with forests, made man a hunter, and from the custom of shedding blood, he became brutified in his habits and an anthropophagist.”

“The sensualist has brutified the seraphic nature with which he was endowed.”

“In isolation he becomes brutified and etiolated.”

“The rumor hereof was bruted throughout the Citie, and euery man resorted thither to see it.”

“It was also bruted, that his bodie was buried in the monasterie of saint Andrewes of the Cisteaux order.”

“But it is also clear that the use of torture was brutalising individual soldiers, as had so often happened in history.”

“Whiplash is a truly comic experience, rare enough among today's video games, and brutalising a bunny is refreshing fun to begin with.”

“Still more brutalising, still more destructive of every element of pureness and kindness were the gladiatorial games.”

“But over the years, this former heavyweight champion went from mauling other fighters to brutalizing people far removed from the boxing ring.”

“It took him weeks, if not months, to do it, and why should I forgive him for brutalizing this sweet, dear, old lady?”

“Trust me, it's the kind of movie you'll be jonesing for in about a month once the Bruckheimers and Bays are through brutalizing your brainpan.”

“The stone is next mounted on a lathe and, using a second diamond, the points of the crystal are ground away to form a round girdle, a process known as bruting.”

“This operation, by which the shape and position of the facets are roughly marked out, is known as bruting, rubbing, or graying the stone.”

“Bruting is the process of grinding the blank against another diamond to reduce it to the required size.”