Sentence examples for be perpetrated upon from inspiring English sources

That such an atrocity could be perpetrated upon innocent revellers, many of whom were celebrating New Year's Eve, underscores the savagery of the attackers".

While the Nagorno-Karabakh war was one of independence — fought within the context of a century-old genocide against the Armenians by the Turks, the fall of the Soviet Union and anti-Armenian pogroms — it was difficult for me, with my background, not to feel dismay that the same persecution the Armenians had suffered was perpetrated upon their Azeri neighbors.

Jones' book is worth reading alone for the account of how the social work staff – such as Gillie Christou, Maria Ward and Sharon Shoesmith – have been annihilated by the loss of their careers and the appalling abuse that has been perpetrated upon them, including death threats, fears for the safety of their children and being forced to move house several times.

She also referred to "virginity tests" that were being perpetrated upon young women activists.

In October 2012, a more coordinated set of attacks was perpetrated upon Rohingya villages in nine townships throughout the state.

That doesn't make sense, because not all Germans were responsible for the unique historic horrors that were perpetrated upon my people--and most of those monsters are dead now anyway.

It is the mistake that has been perpetrated upon BiH by internal actors and would-be-mediators while freezing the politics of division in place -- something that the current High Representative in BiH recently spoke about before the UN Security Council.

Despite Churchill's greatness in opposing passionately Hitler's anti-Semitism and Hitler's drive to place the whole world under a new Holy German Empire or "Third Reich," Churchill failed to recognize the evils which his own nation's aristocracy, the British aristocracy, were perpetrating upon their colonial subjects.

only insures that the potential for fraud will be perpetrated.

Such silence advertises that rape can be perpetrated with impunity.

Cyberbullying may be perpetrated thoughtlessly, but with devastating consequences.