Sentence examples for an atrocity of from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Americans have been mentally preparing to deal with an atrocity of this sort ever since that day.

But the oppression of millions of human beings, orchestrated and abetted by national and state governments, is an atrocity of an altogether different order.

Outside, it was an atrocity of scroll work and irrelevant turrets; inside a dim museum in which animal and vegetable matter decayed under glass.

So how does Iriondo feel about the fact that, across the world, the name of his town is associated with an atrocity of war? "Here in Guernica," he says, "the painting is seen as a picture for peace".

It has reminded us all of the value of naming and shaming – naming the girls to remind the world that they are human beings, and shaming terrorists, Nigeria's incompetent government, and the structural and institutional racism and misogyny that allowed an atrocity of this magnitude to go unnoticed two weeks and unresolved for over three.

In 2005, one of Japan's most prominent magazines, Bungei Shunju, published an article arguing not only that the Bataan Death March was less severe than reported but also that the testimony of the survivors was "gathered based upon the assumption that an atrocity of the Death March did take place".

It's part of an atrocity to erase a people.

They should be treated like survivors of an atrocity, said Laurie Lola Vollen of the University of California at Berkeley, who worked with refugees in Bosnia for four years.

Mother's Day is an unending atrocity of bland conversations, many of which feature clearly dubbed-in lines to make sure the most unsophisticated audiences never get lost.

THE last time the Dominican Republic committed an atrocity against residents of Haitian descent, the rest of the world paid little heed.

Instead, imagine that a dissident of an authoritarian regime uses their smartphone to take video of an atrocity, say the widespread murder of protesting civilians by the regime's security forces.