Sentence examples for committing an atrocity from inspiring English sources

9 P.M. (USA) COVERT AFFAIRS Annie (Piper Perabo) rushes to Copenhagen to prevent Teo (Manolo Cardona) from committing an atrocity.

Tsarnaev's attorneys depicted him as a familiar high school teenager – a friendly stoner enthralled by his big brother – who was manipulated by that sibling into committing an atrocity.

But not so much that we ever thought he would commit an atrocity like this".

Let a Jew commit an atrocity and I, too, dread the communal consequences.

Anytime it committed an atrocity anywhere, Muslims over here paid for it.

THE last time the Dominican Republic committed an atrocity against residents of Haitian descent, the rest of the world paid little heed.

He still receives threatening phone calls "whenever Isis commits an atrocity that is reported nationally" a year after the photo emerged, says Mr Oberholtzer.

A terrorist planning to commit an atrocity at a museum devoted to the horrors of terrorist atrocities might seem unduly biddable to his enemy's purpose, but then perhaps the security apparatus is itself a museum installation.

"They [the agencies] would be more subject to criticism if someone came and committed an atrocity in this country or elsewhere who they had no knowledge of whatsoever.

("The worst outrage is for someone to have committed an atrocity without the requisite affect": the lack of a "perhaps" renders the sentence all the more startling).

But little else in Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's past indicated he would commit an atrocity on the scale of Thursday's attack.