Sentence examples for atrocious action from inspiring English sources

Before an emergency session of the UN Security Council on July 20th, Ban Ki-moon, the UN's secretary-general, described the deaths of Palestinians by shelling as an "atrocious action".

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had earlier spoken out on the situation, describing an Israeli assault on the densely populated Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza as "an atrocious action".

In both religion and economics, absurd belief too often leads to atrocious action.

They condemn the notion that all Muslims should be held responsible for the atrocious actions of Isis, but then proceed to implicate all Brexiters in the recent post-Brexit racist attacks.

Soon after Mr. Netanyahu landed in New York, Israel Radio cited an unnamed member of his entourage as saying that the arrest of the agent was further proof that the words coming out of Iran did not match its atrocious actions and that Iran, while pretending to charm the United States, continued to practice terrorism around the world.

UPDATE, 5 35 p.m. -- The national Beta Theta Pi office based in Oxford, Ohio released a statement condemning O'Neill's behavior as "horrendous" and said he "affected in an extremely negative manner both a young woman in the prime of her life and 64 Beta Theta Pi students unassociated with and unaware of his atrocious actions".

Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there were unrealistic and unworkable, and the ability of a handful of bad actors to completely seize control of the narrative with atrocious actions validates our warnings.

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist charged in the case, has called the actions atrocious but necessary.

"He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," the lawyer said.

"He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," defense lawyer Geir Lippestad told TV2 news.

"He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," he said, adding his client did not feel he deserved punishment.