Sentence examples for grave breaches from inspiring English sources

Full-on "war crimes" are listed in the "grave breaches" provisions of the Conventions.

As grave breaches these acts give rise to individual criminal responsibility.

Hague says the actions of Isis are grave breaches of the Geneva convention.

The C.I.A. shuttered its program, and Congress passed a law limiting the ruling's impact by specifying specific categories of ill treatment that would be considered grave breaches.

And there is little doubt that grave breaches of all these treaties still inflict misery on millions and threaten international peace.

A Republican member of Congress sponsored the War Crimes Act in 1996, which made "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions – like torture – federal crimes.

Her spokesperson called it a "a grave breach of trust".

Any grave breach of them, at home or abroad, was classified as a war crime.

"That would be a grave breach of trust," Mr. Seibert quoted her as saying.

"This has been a grave breach which had been costly to all concerned," the BBC Trust said.

Law enforcement officials described the case as an extremely grave breach of national security.