He maintained pressure on the government over the Vietnam war and criticised the Greek military dictatorship of 'the Colonels' for "bestial and barbarous practices".

Any chance of an article on the barbarous practice of forcibly sterilizing transgender people in Sweden?

In a satirical letter to Punch in 1845 it is regarded as a barbarous practice known only to the bloodthirsty Spaniards, like bull-fighting.

"Did they explain why they followed this barbarous practice?"

In 1998 the commission examined 21 complaints of "this barbarous practice," its president, Mireille Roccatti, said in her annual report.

Rid England of these barbarous practices which, as the author reminds us, are a direct throwback to the practices of the dark ages.

They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

"I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the Sultan's, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them."

He'd wanted her to be acquitted for only one reason: He believed that capital punishment was a barbarous practice, and he could not condone it under any circumstances.

That is to persuade his Board of Game to end the equally barbarous practice known as "same day land-and-shoot."