Sentence examples for barbarity of war from inspiring English sources

Sinking the Lusitania on sight, however, took the barbarity of war to a new level.

Two themes -- the enthusiasm for war, and the horror and barbarity of war -- are as contemporary now as they were when Homer wrote about them more than 2,700 years ago.

His horror at the death of democracy's first "great martyr chief " was matched by his revulsion from the barbarities of war.

Thanks to Hearts and Minds, they are now unforgettable evidence of the barbarity of that war.

Despite the barbarity of the war - particularly during the early 1980s, when Guatemala's Mayans were killed in their tens of thousands by the government forces of General José Efraín Ríos Montt and allied paramilitaries - a culture of impunity has remained almost impenetrable.

He chronicles the extraordinary barbarity of the air war and the "collateral damage" it wreaks; an enterprise now made even more soulless as death is unleashed from drones operated by pilots hundreds or thousands of miles away.

It demands a lifting of the sieges, condemns starvation as a strategy of war, singles out the barbarity of the barrel bombs dropped on civilian populations by the Assad regime and, most crucially of all perhaps, calls for aid convoys to be allowed to cross the Syrian border from neighbouring countries such as Turkey and Iraq.

Last week's sporting drama took place against a backdrop featuring the charismatic barbarity of Isis, an undeclared proxy war in Ukraine, the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and a widening gap between rich and poor at home.

President Hollande has said Isis had committed an "act of war" and insisted France would "triumph over barbarity".

Tired of losing their sons to the barbarities of the Peloponnesian War, they barricade themselves on the Acropolis and declare they will not have sex with their husbands until they agree to make peace with the Spartans.

French president Francois Hollande said the attacks were an "act of war" and promised France would be "merciless" in its response to the "absolute barbarity".