Sentence examples for for an atrocity from inspiring English sources

"SOMEONE'S getting ready for an atrocity here," my high school friend Jon Jucovy announced as we drove through Kings Point, Great Neck's fanciest neighborhood.

At one of the rare strong moments in the "Autobiography," he excoriates the American government for an atrocity in the Philippines war, where, My Lai-like, six hundred villagers were massacred in an extinct volcano crater:      We lost fifteen men killed outright..

And it is far better to agree to some form of standard now, rather that wait for an atrocity plotted behind impenetrable walls to be unleashed: if that happens the Dick Cheneys and Donald Rumsfelds of the future will be setting the rules.The place where liberals should fight and the spooks should concede is over supervision and due process.

At one of the rare strong moments in the "Autobiography," he excoriates the American government for an atrocity in the Philippines war, where, My Lai-like, six hundred villagers were massacred in an extinct volcano crater: We lost fifteen men killed outright...

It's not as if French intelligence was aware of the location of major Isis infrastructure but waiting for an atrocity to take place in the homeland so they could respond: the strikes were, as the former Marine colonel Michel Goya admitted, "only symbolic".

Here are scenes from a tumultuous time — the victims in Ghouta, the trail of refugees, and the U.N. inspectors looking for evidence of an atrocity.

"It was an atrocity for us," Mr. Molinari said, adding that the parties will include a concert and fireworks.

In the same vein as its forerunners, "Katyn" remembers the 1940 massacre of 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet troops, an atrocity for which the Soviets tried to blame the Nazis.

Being willfully blind is an atrocity for free thinking but this is what is happening more and more every day.

However, locking people up in mass numbers for nonviolent crimes is an atrocity against humanity.

Although the settlements enterprise seems successful, it is jeopardizing Israel's spiritual well-being and creating the conditions for what Robert Jay Lifton calls an "atrocity producing situation".