Sentence examples for mass violation from inspiring English sources

But it was also a mass violation of civil liberties, rivaled in 20th-century America only by the systematic segregation of African-Americans.

In a characteristic rhetorical flourish, Assange said that Obama had taken on "a generation" in this case – "a young generation of people who find the mass violation of privacy unacceptable.

Likewise with the miners' strike, the idea that the police could stage a mass violation of civil liberties, subjecting tens of thousands of people to arbitrary detentions and the military occupation of their villages – most of it barely reported by the mainstream media – will seem weird to young audiences now.

For what it is worth, I speak as author of two books on the carnage in Bosnia – both containing chapters on the systematic mass violation of women in that war – and write this during the week of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

The celebration, technically a mass violation of the law and a major headache for local law enforcement, comes on the heels of scientists in the UK, US, Europe and Australia calling for a global public health campaign for marijuana, citing the serious risks of frequent cannabis use.

That only makes sense as a justification if the mass violation of privacy is of less value than 2996 innocent American lives.

Arab governments have never admitted committing mass violations of Jewish human and civil rights, much less apologised or offered restitution.

"Stalinism is connected with a cult of personality, mass violations of law, with repressions and camps, and there is nothing like this in Russia," Mr. Putin said.

"Statements about mass violations, these are of course hysteria and an attempt to exert unlawful moral pressure during the counting of votes," he said.

The aim of the programme is to investigate mass violations committed in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 and identify those who bear the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Most, including all of those associated with policing, aim at correcting mass violations of constitutional rights, although they can also be used to force compliance with environmental, labor or other regulations.