Brutalizes

A switch-hitter, Martinez especially brutalizes left-handed pitchers, hitting .396/.429/.732 this year. ❋ Adam Kilgore (2010)

My position with my husband was simple: given a choice between a man who brutalizes and murders, and a robot, I would opt for the robot in a heartbeat. ❋ Claudia Ricci (2011)

Interesting how the allegedly anti-State folks -- among whom we must number several Speech Warriors ™ -- go all soft and gooey when the State brutalizes those with whom they happen to disagree, and happily applaud the murder of journalists who tell them what they don't want to hear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Latif winds up as Uday's shadow, forced to watch as Latif brutalizes, tortures, rapes and even murders those unfortunate enough to cross his path. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

It is true, of course, that war brutalizes cultures and people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or to detail the way torture brutalizes our society and destroys the psyches of the young men and women we encourage to do it in our names. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If America really gave a damn about stopping terrorism and promoting human rights, it would invest massively in energy innovation, so we would not feel compelled to fund and arm a nation that treats women like pets, brutalizes reformers, and murders gay people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His government denies voters their rights, brutalizes the opposition, censors the press, abuses women, inducts children into the army, and criminalizes homosexuality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We don't focus enough attention on human rights violations across the globe - specifically the wholesale oppression of girls and women - and I wish Saddam's fate on every other human being who brutalizes and slaughters innocent people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The case against meat: evidence shows that our meat-based diet is bad for the environment aggravates global hunger, brutalizes animals and compromises our health. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We need to learn again – or perhaps for the first time – how war brutalizes and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonize our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For years, Europe has been criticized for its lucrative business deals with a regime that threatens Israel with nuclear annihilation, sponsors terror around the globe, and brutalizes its own population. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here the defeat is even greater, its reverberations deeper, wider, longer-lasting: a degradation and degeneration that further brutalizes both the dispenser and victim of violence -- especially the former, and especially when the dispensing culture comes to countenance an ever-widening array of violent acts as worthy, necessary, laudable, even honorable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems one end of the media is afraid to criticize and question the man and administration, and the other half brutalizes him and them with aplomb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The USA (assisted by Britain) has become an imperialist nation that invades and brutalizes countries that never attacked us, and then openly and nakedly works overtime to steal their oil. ❋ Unknown (2009)