Sentence examples for attack directed against from inspiring English sources

"Crimes against humanity means acts that are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population," Mr. Ellis said.

The third work is devoted to a defense of philosophy against his predecessor al-Ghazālī's telling attack directed against Avicenna and al-Qārābī in particular.

The Rome Statute defines "crimes against humanity" as a set of acts "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population".

(Fortunately the Senate barred the government from hiring companies who use such contracts last fall. Al Franken sponsored the bill. Jeff Sessions called it "a political attack directed against Halliburton".

This was defined in 1998 by the Rome Statute, which set up the international criminal court, as "a systematic attack directed against a civilian population, resulting in extermination or torture, or an inhumane act intentionally causing great suffering".

There was a widespread and systematic attack directed against this Serb civilian population, [creating] an environment in which those present there had no choice but to leave," the judges found.

The critical attacks directed against him by the radicals obscured his reputation.

The tasks of the, State Police were purely counterintelligence against attacks directed against the State, and that within the legal provisions and regulations.

This has had direct implications for the nature of the current wave of attacks directed against the U.S. and elsewhere, no less in Pakistan itself.

Over the past month, the number of attacks directed against the 130,000 United States troops in Iraq has grown to nearly three dozen a day.

Other forms of expressive violence are very much intended to leave marks, notably "vitriolage," or acid attacks, directed against girls and women in Bangladesh and elsewhere.