Sentence examples for an atrocity that from inspiring English sources

This was an atrocity that had both a clear international dimension and strong local roots.

One Labour source said the conditions should also include an atrocity that is defined as a crime against humanity.

Last month it murdered 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, an atrocity that led to retaliatory Egyptian air strikes.

The Obama administration, declaring the attack an atrocity that cannot go unanswered, has blamed Mr. Assad's government and threatened a military reprisal.

The Arab slave trade, which ranks as No. 3 on Pinker's hit list, was an atrocity that took more than a millennium to unfold.

It was, in part, the natural and inevitable consequence of an atrocity that took so many lives so quickly and so unexpectedly.

The poignancy and even distressing nature of this insight struck me recently as I read of Donald Trump's address to a South Carolina audience about an American atrocity that never actually happened.

While that attack drew global attention, it was the Aug. 21 assault, with video evidence of a mass atrocity, that precipitated a worldwide crisis.

About 560 people, including women, children and elderly people, were executed at dawn on Aug. 12, 1944, in a wartime atrocity that has been characterized as an act of revenge for Italian partisans resisting German occupation during World War II.

This is a mass atrocity that has attracted little attention: a government starving its people, massacring them, raping them, and bombing them — all in hopes of crushing a rebel movement.

Here's another recent example of a wartime atrocity that is perfectly legal and not a war crime at all.