Murders of severely cruel circumstances will be met with the death penalty.

Richard Jewell is an innocent man, and he is a victim of some very, very cruel circumstances.

Masih's case was brought into the limelight by the cruel and unusual circumstances of her death.

I saw, as at a distance, a thousand cruel circumstances, without discovering anything distinctly.

Working under what have been described as cruel circumstances, he completed European Thought in the Eighteenth Century.

She remains defiant and dignified despite her cruel circumstances.

'Forced by cruel circumstance to throw garden parties.'

But she is remembered for what made her extraordinary: a precocious talent and the cruel circumstances that shaped her short life.

The usurer emerges instead as a pitiably deformed, if far from likable, product of cruel social circumstances.

Nelly's foster children came from cruel circumstances.