Sentence examples for defenseless citizens from inspiring English sources
Franco enlisted the help of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who were eager to practice modern techniques of warfare on the defenseless citizens of Spain.
"We don't believe the country will advance toward peace by pursuing businessmen, civic leaders and defenseless citizens or by preventing them from adopting an antisubversive stance," he said.
When we think of mass atrocities, we think of regimes -- or their proxies -- massacring defenseless citizens, as in Rwanda or Darfur.
But numerous witnesses, human rights officials and video shot at the stadium painted a far more chilling picture, of defenseless citizens, many carrying branches to signify they were unarmed, set on by a frenzied band of uniformed men.
It is a form of arrogance to impose a gag rule on doctors and health advocates in other countries as the price of receiving vital assistance for its poorest and most defenseless citizens, particularly its women, especially when it involves an activity that is constitutionally protected in the United States.
Local militias, facing professional soldiers instead of defenseless citizens, would rapidly be routed.
An official is abusing his power and making a defenseless citizen's life miserable, and Abe, his sense of justice as well as his feeling of power aroused, decides to take direct action.
(The scene is too good to give away). An official is abusing his power and making a defenseless citizen's life miserable, and Abe, his sense of justice as well as his feeling of power aroused, decides to take direct action.
Another director, Aaron Zelman, warned that gun-control laws are "a government mechanism to make citizens defenseless".
But instead of reacting by pulling together, E.U. leaders seem to have left their citizens defenseless and vulnerable and the bloc increasingly less credible to deal with a new U.S. administration and Russia.
The ads imply that Clinton and Democrats would leave law-and-order abiding citizens defenseless.
