Sentence examples for large-scale indiscriminate from inspiring English sources

This is about the large-scale, indiscriminate use of weapons that the civilized world, long ago, decided must never be used at all.

Most important, Israel has failed to investigate adequately the policy-level decisions that apparently lie behind the large-scale indiscriminate and unlawful attacks in Gaza.

The British home secretary, Theresa May, who has long championed the European passenger name record plan, welcomed the development, while data protection watchdogs criticised the proposed large-scale "indiscriminate collection of personal data".

But the invention of large-scale, indiscriminate netting techniques that capture thousands of birds, including threatened species, lead to the outlawing of both the dish and the hunting in 1974.

This is about the large-scale indiscriminate use of weapons that the civilized world long ago decided must never be used at all, a conviction shared even by countries that agree on little else.

Here's a summary of where things stand: US secretary of state John Kerry delivered a strongly worded, to some ears bellicose, speech in which he said a large-scale, indiscriminate chemical weapons attack occurred last week in Syria and there's little doubt it was perpetrated by the Assad regime.

While mushroom foraging for personal use may be defensible (Letters, 30 July), large-scale and indiscriminate picking of wild fungi for commercial exploitation will eventually have a major effect on the survival of species in the wild.

European data protection watchdogs have described the scheme as "the first large-scale and indiscriminate collection of personal data in the history of the European Union", and it is regarded as a major security development for the EU.

The stepped-up drone attacks that Obama has authorized are narrowly targeted and less destructive than, for example, the large-scale, relatively indiscriminate bombing of urban areas that marked the beginning of the invasion of Iraq.

"The indiscriminate bombing, the large-scale use of bulldozers, the use of herbicides, is an outrage," he said.

The large scale and indiscriminate targeting of civilians that took place during the two conflicts in Chechnya, when hostilities were at their peak and civilian settlements and infrastructure were heavily bombed, had a dramatic impact on thousands of children.