"atrocity" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an act that is shockingly brutal, cruel, or horrific. For example: "The atrocities perpetrated against the ethnic minority group during the war were utterly appalling."
The case against him collapsed after it emerged in court that he had a letter from 2007 that mistakenly suggested he was immune from prosecution over the Hyde Park atrocity.
Last month,two dozen writers including Peter Carey and Joyce Carol Oates publicly distanced themselves from international writers' organisation PEN over its decision to give the magazine a freedom of expression award in the wake of the atrocity.
Bolt had written of commentators on asylum seekers being forcibly returned to Sri Lanka: "If a crime against morality has been committed, it is surely this: that so many atrocity mongers and moral posers have inflicted upon us a gigantic fraud".
Such an atrocity, had it been committed by any Arab or Iranian, or indeed a Muslim of any persuasion, would have brought down instant punishment, or even war.
Nigeria's president has insisted that the internationally decried kidnapping of 286 girls by Boko Haram will mark the "beginning of the end of terror" in the country, as further details emerged of the latest rebel atrocity, which saw scores of people shot and burned alive in a north-eastern market town on Monday.
Why don't we stop all the clocks to prevent armed gangs from planning their next atrocity?
In the book, titled The Book of Forgiving, Mpho said it was important to convey how she went from "nausea, disgust, fear, confusion" to finding her own peace with the atrocity through the stages of forgiveness she and her father lay out.
Kinnock wrote to say he was "horrified and outraged at this terrible atrocity".
This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead.
Born to a policeman father in the sect's heartland of Borno state, almost every milestone of Godiya's life can be matched to an atrocity.
