"A crime against humanity," says Shakir, is "a systematic, widespread attack on a civilian population as part of government policy.
In financial services, where a problem at one company could easily trigger a system-wide crisis, regulators are urging banks and other firms to consider resilience across markets.A war game run last July by America's securities industry, Quantum Dawn 2, simulated a widespread attack by hackers intent on stealing large amounts of money and disrupting the stockmarket.
For example, a widespread attack strategy in computer networks is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The widespread attack on cities in the south brought the Viet Cong into the open, where they were decimated by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.
We support campaigns against increases in tuition fees and the axing of the education maintenance allowance, regressive changes that are part of the government's widespread attack on our education system.
Reports from refugees and rights groups paint a picture of widespread attacks on Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhine by the security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, who have put numerous Muslim villages to the torch.
Mr. Tsvangirai, who won more votes than Mr. Mugabe in a March 2008 general election but withdrew before a June runoff after widespread attacks on his supporters, contended that members of his party were being hounded by a police force and criminal justice system controlled by Mr. Mugabe.
A recent United Nations report into war crimes in the region has highlighted widespread attacks on women and girls, some as young as ten years old.
MUMBAI, India — Indian commandos slid down ropes from a hovering army helicopter Friday morning as they stormed a Jewish community center that had been seized by terrorists during bloody and widespread attacks on Mumbai, India's commercial capital.
Widespread attacks on missionaries and diplomats led to another foreign occupation of Beijing.
