Sentence examples for appalling violation from inspiring English sources

Reza Aslan, a California-based writer on Islam, said the Swiss vote would be seen as "an appalling violation" of basic rights, even by Americans who did not much like Islam.

Trying to shut down the Internet in neighborhoods would be an appalling violation of civil liberties and a threat to public safety, denying vital real-time information to frightened residents.

"We have probably put so much emphasis on the criminal justice process... that the actual needs of the human being who's suffered this appalling violation come second," she said.

"Child marriage is an appalling violation of human rights and robs girls of their education, health and long-term prospects," Babatunde Osotimehin, M.D., executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, said in a press release last year.

"Child marriage is an appalling violation of human rights and robs girls of their education, health and long-term prospects.

"Child marriage is an appalling violation of human rights and robs girls of their education, health and long-term prospects," says Babatunde Osotimehin, M.D, Executive Director, UNFPA.

They have ignored the gross and appalling violations by medical personnel.

"Appalling violations of the most basic human rights are occurring in Syria," said the official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, speaking in Geneva at the opening session of the Human Rights Council.

It is resulting in appalling violations of the rights of desperately vulnerable people for which the Italian authorities bear a direct responsibility and Europe's leaders a political one".

"Appalling violations of the most basic human rights are occurring in Syria, and I fear that we in the international community are failing to meet our fundamental obligations to the victims," Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, said in an address opening a session of the Human Rights Council.

President Obama's admission this summer that "we tortured some folks" doesn't begin to convey the appalling violations of human rights and international law cataloged by the Intelligence Committee.