Sentence examples for civilians when it from inspiring English sources

The U.N. Security Council placed the highest priority on protection of civilians when it established UNMISS on July 8.

If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the local population will turn against us — and make the fight against violent extremists even more difficult.

More than six budget-busting months against one of the weakest militaries in the world, with shortages of planes, weapons and ammunition that were patched over by the pretense that NATO was acting simply to "protect civilians," when it was clear to everyone that the alliance was intervening on one side of a civil war.

The department has also failed to remedy "systemic violations" and "civil rights abuses" within the police agency, the claim continues, and has shown "deliberate indifference to the use of excessive and often deadly force in encounters with civilians when it is a grossly disproportionate response".

It seems rarely to get mentioned that there has been considerable doubt as to the effectiveness of our bombing, or that an air force that can't always hit the right village certainly can't avoid killing civilians when it bombs power plants in Hanoi.

In October that year, it killed nine Protestant civilians when it bombed a fish shop on the Shankill Road.

I had gotten my own share of "thanks" from civilians when I was still a U.S. Army Ranger.

Boko Haram has showed little reservation about killing large numbers of civilians, and when it has wanted its prisoners released, it has sometimes simply attacked the prisons where they were held.

This is not the first time the Soviet Union has shot at and hit a civilian airliner when it overflew its territory.

We see more civilians killed when it's counter-terrorism ops, because the targets are deemed as a threat to the US homeland and therefore there's a greater tolerance of collateral damage".

Hamas was certainly guilty of less-severe violations of international humanitarian law, such as not taking all necessary steps it should to prevent civilian casualties when it positions fighters and armaments too close to concentrations of civilians.