Initial figures for the rate cap of Leicester city council would have required it to lower rates by 57%, a level which council leader Peter Soulsby described as "savage treatment".

Boyle, his officers, and his men remained prisoners until their release on 27 July, having suffered a "cruel imprisonment and savage treatment".

Been gone many years but I'm still grateful for your savage treatment of Thatcher and her oily henchmen in the early eighties - a daily dose of sanity.

A. Bartlett Giamatti is singled out for particularly savage treatment.

King John's savage treatment of the captives turned the tide against himself, and his French barons began to desert him in droves.

Programs about the savage treatment of these peoples do seem to be everywhere.

Ishmael was a savage; he deserved a savage treatment.

Up to that time their lives had been appallingly difficult, given the savage treatment their fellow-Poles meted out to them.

Everyone knew that the church was on the side of the Caudillo, turning a blind eye to the savage treatment of his enemies.

Speaking at the Hay Festival in Kerala, the veteran war reporter said that the Japanese reputation for savage treatment of enemy troops captured alive was well deserved.