"brutal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Those demonstrations in turn led to a brutal crackdown by the regime that set off further uprising and revolution.
- Nothing short of a brutal comprehensive crackdown would work.
- The next year, however, he began a long and brutal crackdown on suspected Islamic fundamentalists that has even extended to their families.
- The attacks precipitated a major, and brutal, Yugoslav military crackdown.
- In the face of these protests, the Qaddafi regime responded with brutal crackdowns.
- Put in charge of Tibet, the young politician turned against his mentor and led a brutal crackdown on dissidents.
- Authorities then launched a "brutal" crackdown on protesters, including doctors and bloggers.
- It was he who had masterminded the brutal crackdown against the national separatists in his own native Ukraine.
- It has to be clear to the Chinese, though, that their brutal crackdown on the democracy movement was and remains intolerable, an official said.
- The brutal crackdown launched by the security services in the southern city helped trigger the recent nationwide unrest.
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