Sentence examples for measures of impunity from inspiring English sources

By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 29, 2010 As measures of impunity go, what happens to a powerful man who has had his ex-girlfriend killed is not a bad one.

They can basically produce drugs with a measure of impunity," he said.

In the later years of Suharto's autocratic, 32-year presidency, Mr. Wahid became a leading critic who enjoyed a measure of impunity because of his position as a Muslim leader and the affection and respect he commanded among many Indonesians.

Perhaps President Bashar Al-Assad is arming himself with Russian and Chinese support and with the fact that they are providing him with some measure of impunity.

And, most importantly, only governments can institute measures to end the culture of impunity, beginning with the extension of legal protection to UN staff in humanitarian operations, as the Secretary-General has asked - and ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, under which attacks on humanitarian workers could be considered a war crime.

UN Security Council members and observers say targeted measures would have no such effect, and may instead be a small step toward breaking the cycle of impunity that has beset the country for years.

The UK is at the center of this network of impunity, a legacy of the British Empire and a measure of the continuing role of the City of London in transferring tax-free funds around the world.

"This is the end of impunity.

"There is a trend of impunity.

There is a culture of impunity.

Torture of detainees continued and a climate of impunity prevailed".