Sentence examples for modern atrocities from inspiring English sources

The effect was chilling: an onslaught of names and traits that suggested modern atrocities and the capsule obituaries (a blurry head shot, a couple of sentences) that follow.

This is what brought me to Jordan on a trip hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which has, as part of its mission, the goal of calling attention to modern atrocities and crimes against humanity.

What's more, the pre-modern mass deaths tend to be spread out over long periods of time and carried out by a highly diffuse set of actors (the fall of Rome, the Mid-East slave trade), whereas the more modern atrocities tend to be chronologically concentrated and politically centralized.

Every modern atrocity or disaster has its attendant conspiracy theories.

Qureshi's work is reflective of the corrosive history that has beset Pakistan, from the military rule he was born into to the country's modern terrorist atrocities.

(The character of Charles Eastman, played by Adam Beach, was virtually invented "to carry a contemporary white audience," Daniel Giat, who wrote the movie for HBO Films, has said.) The freighted and modern words atrocity and celebrity can be heard here, though the time is the 1870s.

Rowland therefore seeks to widen discussion of the poet's work to include engagement with defining crises of the modern world: the atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust and the American bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, as well as the fear of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The people of the first new nation of the century suffered some of the worst atrocities of modern times.

Let us make sure that no new names are added to the list of the worst atrocities of modern times.

Sacred geography has been responsible for one of modern India's worst atrocities.

Even Sarajevo, which two decades ago was the site of some of modern Europe's worst atrocities, proved welcoming.