Sentence examples for hideous atrocities from inspiring English sources
Towns were de facto segregated and blacks had few political rights, especially during the Mau Mau rebellion in the early 1950s, when both sides committed hideous atrocities.
The first suspect is a Serb war criminal, Mirko Zigic, who committed hideous atrocities during the Bosnian war and is an obvious culprit.
Yet, to the Angolan army, all civilians in rebel areas are UNITA collaborators and over the past four months, commandos in Lunda Sul province, just to the north of Moxico, have carried out hideous atrocities against alleged collaborators.
Or when France, still today the main protector of the brutal dictatorships in its former colonies, manages to overlook its hideous atrocities in Africa, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns grimly of the "flood of immigrants" and Marine Le Pen objects that he is doing nothing to prevent it.
The flashes of the hideous atrocity sear your mind, and when the mob, still riled with blood lust, chases the car, your heart is in your throat.
In the story, set in post-apartheid South Africa, the unrepentant professor visits his daughter on the East Cape, where she is victim of a hideous atrocity.
The boys had been forced to join the rebels at gunpoint, beaten and drugged, told to shoot their friends and taught to commit brutal, hideous acts of atrocity.
As the making of the movie within a movie unfolds, atrocities as hideous as any committed during wartime, are discreetly but devastatingly re-enacted for the camera.
It was hard to believe that anything could be worse than Tuesday's hideous events, when one atrocity followed another, hour after hour.
During her preliminary research she found that most school text books and even historical works contained little or no mention of the atrocities, in which hideous tortures were inflicted on men and women.
