"commit outrages" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in a formal or serious context to describe someone's actions that are seen as extremely offensive, unjust, or brutal. Example: The dictator's regime was known for its tendency to commit outrages against its own citizens, including unlawful arrests and torture.
Sometimes we should stop and ask why terrorists commit outrages like that in a Nairobi shopping mall.
The chumps in animal heads who tried to kidnap Saga in her hotel room are not connected to the original eco-terrorist cell who, confusingly, also wore animal heads to commit outrages.
While criminologist David Wilson eloquently reflected on her psychopathy and came up with a fancy name for the men who helped her kill and dispose of the bodies (hybristophilia – the attraction for those who commit outrages, hence Clyde's appeal for Bonnie), he didn't answer the questions that most intrigued me.
Did marauding 11th century armies inevitably commit outrages?
Suspicious and hostile at heart, they took the field for him only when the Eastphalian peasantry committed outrages that shocked aristocrats everywhere.
The Yankees have finally dropped the good-guy mask that Roosevelt gave them and are now committing outrages in these parts.
For instance, one article this week on the Web site of Radio Nacional de Venezuela, the state-controlled radio network, called him a "right-wing extremist," and claimed he was "constantly committing outrages against the stability of the Bolivarian revolution".
President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved, and in 1902 ordered the dismissal of the United States general in charge; in a letter to a German friend dated July 19 , 1902 however, Roosevelt was slightly more understanding: to find out which Filipinos committed outrages, he wrote that "not a few" of our officers and enlisted men "began to use the old Filipino method of mild torture, the water cure.
International law prohibits "committing outrages upon personal dignity," including against the dead.
They include murder, torture, "causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health," "depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial," illegal deportation, unlawful confinement, the taking of hostages, and "committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment".
Jihadists will doubtless commit new outrages and hatch new conspiracies.
