Sentence examples for desperate victim from inspiring English sources

Is he a suicide bomber or the desperate victim of callous insurgents?

That seemed to conjure up the unlikely situation of a desperate victim, trapped in a trunk, but using two handy cellphones to call for help.

But they have plenty of willing, nay, desperate victims to choose from.

In the week that Ochen spent in Kitgum, he saw many more desperate victims of war.

Several grainy fragments of ransom videos in which desperate victims plead for help make the skin crawl.

Those who would turn their backs on these innocent, desperate victims use scare tactics to gain support.

Batted aside when hundreds of desperate victims of the disaster swarmed around aid workers handing out a batch of supplies earlier in the day, she is still hungry.

They are pitied as desperate victims or romanticized as patriots who strike back against Israeli tanks with their only weapons, their own bodies.

Despite destitution and lack of food, all that these desperate victims, most of them women and children, are unanimously begging for is security.

But the apparent rise in hostility toward refugees, many of whom see wealthy Germany as a kind of promised land, has been countered by an outpouring of sympathy and support for people seen as desperate victims of poverty or violence.

Arthur Andersen L.L.P., the proud accounting firm nearly a century old, finds itself surrounded by angry and desperate victims of the collapse of the Enron Corporation, whose deeply flawed books it audited.