Sentence examples for avert atrocities from inspiring English sources
PAGE A6 STEP TO AVERT ATROCITIES President Obama is expected to announce a ban on visas for people who the State Department finds have been involved in human rights violations.
Recent American military interventions, from Somalia to Haiti to Kosovo, have been undertaken primarily for humanitarian reasons, to stop or to try to avert atrocities, and President Bill Clinton apologized for not taking action to stop the slaughter in Rwanda.
Gerardi believed that his report, "Guatemala: Never Again," would help avert future atrocities.
Reading the decision, Justice Higgins said that Serbia "has not shown that it took any initiative to prevent what happened [at Srebrenica] or any action to avert the atrocities which were being committed".
But if we are broadly retreating from the principle of humanitarian intervention to avert mass atrocities because of compassion fatigue in a tumultuous and ungrateful world, then we're landing on the wrong side of history, and some day we will look back in shame.
We can't avert every atrocity, and there are legitimate arguments for investing in nation-building at home rather than abroad.
The world's longest-running science-fiction television series is, among other things, a fable about British history: the Doctor halts every invasion and averts every atrocity, except when he can't.
I'm a believer in humanitarian intervention to avert genocide or mass atrocities — when the stars align, as I believe they did in Libya — so maybe I'm deluding myself to justify our bombing campaign.
And it is only through the painstaking efforts of our security and intelligence services and police, with what has been reported publicly as many as five separate suspected conspiracies thwarted since July 7, that more atrocities have been averted.
Two weeks after the murderous attack on the tube, a second atrocity was averted when devices failed to detonate.
In the lead up to this vote, the Obama administration is ramping up its diplomatic efforts to avert an outbreak of violence, which intelligence analysts believe would likely result in mass atrocity or even genocide.
