Sentence examples for immediate victim from inspiring English sources

Its immediate victim will be the Syrian people.

The immediate victim of all these changes has been the owner of the traditional neighborhood used-book store.

The immediate victim of Governor Peterson's Coastal Zone Act was the Shell Oil Company, which was stopped from building a $200 million refinery.

McMillan may have been one of the last Occupiers facing trial, but she was by no means the only immediate victim of police violence targeting protesters.

Many of the justifications for anti-hate laws seem to me to fall short: bias crimes terrorize more than the immediate victim; yes, but so does a mugger who frequents a particular neighborhood.

These cases lend some support to the view that those who engage in this type of conduct may not perceive themselves as violating the law because there is no immediate victim.

The logic behind the law is that hate crimes -- beating up gays, desecrating Jewish cemeteries, burning black churches -- affect more than the immediate victim; they can terrorize entire communities.

But the most immediate victim of the Rampart scandal is not likely to be a police officer but Gil Garcetti, the hard-hitting district attorney who made a point of prosecuting gangs.

The court also heard a submission from Ben Emmerson QC, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, who argued that where gross or "systematic human rights violations are alleged to have occurred, the right to know the truth is not only an individual right that belongs to the immediate victim of the violation, but also a collective right that belongs to the whole of society".

But Locke does not say that she must be the immediate victim of the "Offender".

And Radzik (2010) claims that the idea that only the immediate victim of wrongdoing can forgive is false, since it is a commonplace that people who are neither direct nor indirect victims of a wrong may nevertheless experience moral anger over a wrong (e.g. an injustice) done to others.