In one of his strongest speeches, he told tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square the Bosnian people were 'hostages of programmed and inhuman violence'.

Adherence to racist ideologies can be mightily assisted by material incentives; as motives for inhuman violence and oppression, the factors need not be opposed and very often can hardly be distinguished.

In its majesty and its inhuman violence, Mr. Nicolson writes, Trafalgar "was a brutal amalgam and remains an inheritance with a troubling ambiguity at its heart."

The ring of inhuman violence was lacking, though; this was the normal sound of human conflict, and I turned toward it.

In the most profound sense, she cautioned that each of us, no matter how pure our motives, carried strands of inhuman violence in the DNA of a greater good.

The wealthy classes thought that the much-feared social revolution-and the inhuman violence associated with radical liberalism-had arrived.

The horrendous, barbarous and inhuman violence perpetrated by the Islamist guerrilla groups appears to be on the increase, if indeed it ever actually ceased.

We must also fight for swift and fair ways of providing assistance to the victims of terrorism, who are the innocent hostages of inhuman violence.

Women are their bête noire and the hatred which they have unleashed against them is expressed in inhuman violence.

Although to me "The Lottery" meant that people are capable of inhuman violence and bigotry, I was still a little unsure of its meaning.