Sentence examples for a vicious atrocity from inspiring English sources

This is a vicious atrocity".

Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents - who have ordered the community they regard as "devil worshippers" to convert to Islam or die - of celebrating a "a vicious atrocity" with cheers and weapons waved in the air.

Hostilities on a large scale between Arabs and Jews broke out in 1947, and vicious atrocities were committed by both sides.

The writer's son, Anthony, was working with Muslim refugees in Tuzla, and was able to get firsthand accounts of the vicious atrocities which had taken place.

The most memorable – and vicious – atrocities saw policemen herding panicking crowds on to Paris's bridges, where many were tossed into the Seine.

To her horror, Croatia's "independent" fascist past is now cause for celebration: Street names are changed to honor members of the Ustasha, the Nazi puppets who committed vicious atrocities during World War II, their crimes against humanity played down or denied.

At first glance the Westgate atrocity simply looks like a vicious reprisal for successful military operations undertaken in southern Somalia by the 4,000 Kenyan troops attached to Amisom, the 18,000-strong African-Union-led, UN-backed peacemaking mission.

A country where today, coming out of civil war, incomprehensible atrocities and brutal leadership, and, most recently, a vicious battle with Ebola, only 9.8% of Liberia's 4.39 million citizens have access to electricity.

In an attempt to remain in official favour, several groups responsible for atrocities against civilians rushed to denounce the Peshawar attack, including the Afghan Taliban and even a vicious TTP splinter group called Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.

A vicious cycle.

Washington, D.C., is a vicious, vicious place.