Sentence examples for appalling violations from inspiring English sources

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

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," said the official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, speaking in Geneva at the opening session of the Human Rights Council.

"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.

They wagered that Barack Obama would not move to stop their efforts on the ground or to provide advanced weaponry to the rebels, or even seriously protest the appalling violations committed by the pro-regime alliance in Syria including committing war crimes such as targeting hospitals.

NEW YORK, 20 January 2004 Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF today condemned the appalling violations of the rights of children in times of war.

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.

A juror who infers a defendant's guilt "because he is Mexican and Mexican men take whatever they want" -- a statement attributed to one of the jurors in Peña-Rodriguez Peña-Rodriguezn appalling violation of this ideal.

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