Sentence examples for a defenseless man from inspiring English sources

The rabbis based their justification on the concept of din rodef, a Hebrew term that describes a person who is stalking a defenseless man.

When the Scofield Kid kills his first victim (a defenseless man in an outhouse with his pants down at his ankles), he tries to justify his deed with the words, "Well, I guess he had it coming".

But nothing in that bungling could compare with the sheer wretchedness of the security police officers in the Biko case, who symbolized, in their brutal and callous treatment of a defenseless man, and in the jesting about it I heard in that courtroom passageway, just how far below human decency apartheid had descended.

The Cowboys testified that he was unarmed and claimed that the Earps murdered a defenseless man.

If these masks were to be violently torn away, what would be exposed is not my true self but the spectacle of a wounded and defenseless man.

The cops wanted us to see them beating an unarmed and defenseless man and felt no need to explain themselves.

Then, he said, in a mire of confusion and anger over what he said was a defiant tone by Mr. Louima, he rammed a broken broomstick into the defenseless man's rectum.

A videotape captured most of the brutality and also showed several other officers standing by and doing nothing to stop the pummeling of a defenseless black man.

Without a word of warning, according to Warner — a point disputed by the defense — these two officers aimed their weapons at the defenseless man and emptied their sixteen-bullet clips.

"It's hard to believe, in this day and age, that armed forces will fire artillery and mortars indiscriminately into the heart of a city, flushing defenseless men, women and children out into the streets and then shooting them," Baker said.

Investigators determined that troops under Major Del Río's command seized the three defenseless men from a sugarcane field where they were working, killed them and later said the deaths happened during combat against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a rebel group.