Sentence examples for in an atrocity from inspiring English sources

To ground a novel in an atrocity still so raw in the public memory risks affronting its surviving victims.

In an atrocity without parallel for its savagery in post-war Europe, a series of co-ordinated attacks by terrorists linked to Isis kill 130 people in Paris.

Now the siblings' mother is also dead – murdered in an atrocity on a bus – and a man standing on Lucy's doorstep says that he is Jason.

There are other portraits: the redoubtable anti-Nazi clergyman; an army officer who tried to stop a massacre of fleeing Jews; the gamekeeper who became a postwar celebrity (until his role in an atrocity began to come out).

In an atrocity that will be cruelly overshadowed as the year unfolds, 21 people, most of them European tourists, are shot dead by terrorists at the Bardo Museum in Tunis; around 50 others are wounded.

Had the reported New Year's Eve plot in Munich resulted in an atrocity on the scale of last year's Paris attacks, it's hard to imagine Angela Merkel's generous policy surviving.

Did you know that of the 130 million children in the world who are not in school (an atrocity in itself), 70% are girls?

However, the initiative came the day after a suicide attack in which Hamas, an Islamist group dedicated to destroying Israel, killed 29 elderly Israelis in Netanya, an atrocity the summiteers ignored.

In 2008 the CNDP massacred some 150 people in the town, an atrocity allegedly masterminded by Ntaganda.

It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity.

Atom Egoyan's movie-within-a-movie is about the Turks' slaughter of the Armenians in 1915 - an atrocity that encouraged Hitler to think he could get away with the Holocaust.