"atrocity without" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that is characterized by extreme cruelty or violence, but lacks a specific element or condition that would make it even more disturbing. Example: Despite its reputation as a peaceful nation, the small country was not without its share of atrocities. However, the recent military coup was an atrocity without precedent, shocking even the most jaded of observers.
In an atrocity without parallel for its savagery in post-war Europe, a series of co-ordinated attacks by terrorists linked to Isis kill 130 people in Paris.
("The worst outrage is for someone to have committed an atrocity without the requisite affect": the lack of a "perhaps" renders the sentence all the more startling).
The Nuremburg code sets a very basic standard of conduct in response to atrocity, without reflecting in any depth on the nature of a research encounter.
Turkey acknowledges atrocities without any specific death toll, but says that they did not constitute systematic genocide.
It said the commission should examine how a line could be drawn under atrocities without proposing an amnesty.
He accused Mr. Arafat of having laid "the foundation for modern terrorism, for blowing planes up in the air, for doing atrocities without blinking".
That's why it's impossible to gauge the full range of our responses to the Islamic State atrocities without apprehending the nauseating disjunction between how connected we are and how impotent.
It would be hard for the US to give more assistance to Saudi Arabia as they commit these atrocities without actually dropping the bombs themselves: the Saudis are using cluster munitions (banned by treaty in the vast majority of countries around the world) supplied to them by United States defense contractors.
He documented the cruelties of the Belgian rubber-harvesting industry there – maimings, executions, atrocities without number, millions dead – and on his return pointed fingers at both King Leopold of Belgium (to his face, no less) and his local agent, the explorer/exploiter Henry Stanley, implicating them in what was not yet termed a "genocide".
For centuries, national leaders acted with impunity, perpetrating atrocities without fear of ever being hauled into court.
This shameful dithering has had two horrible consequences: First, Assad now believes -- rightly so -- that he can commit atrocities without facing consequences.
