Sentence examples for of the defenceless from inspiring English sources

Jurors, who had sat through a wealth of evidence charting six months of systematic abuse of the defenceless youngster, took less than four hours to unanimously convict Luczak and former soldier Krezolek, both Polish nationals, on Wednesday.

At present non-consensual sex is only considered punishable if one of the following criteria is fulfilled: the accused must have used violence or threatened to do so or taken advantage of the defenceless position of his victim.

In the same document, John Paul described the "intervention of governmental authority" on behalf of the defenceless as "an elementary principle of sound political organisation" taught by the church for a century.

The one where the islanders play manic, isolated savages driven wild with delight by the crying of the defenceless beasts and Sir Anthony Hopkins plays a sadistic environmentalist daddy at bedtime is probably my favourite.

The Chautauquan: A Weekly Newsmagazine characterized the Chinese as weak and defenseless, stating in its coverage of the massacre: "To murder an industrious Chinaman is the same kind of fiendish work as the murder of women and children – it is equally a violation of the rights of the defenceless".

His belief that British-led "globalisation" could be progressive did not blind him to the cruelties of British rule, which led him to write several impassioned attacks on torture and collective punishment, as well as a couple of bitter screeds on the way in which Indian opium was forced upon the defenceless consumers of foreign-controlled China.

"In the IDP camps, we have both an imperative to support children – the defenceless victims of conflict – and an opportunity to deliver health and education services that they could not avail before".

On Sunday April 26 , 1937 the defenceless Basque town of Guernica was devastated in a bombing attack by the German Condor Squadron.

But it was still shocking to hear a white police ballistics expert confirm to the inquiry that the machine guns used against the defenceless miners were "weapons of war".

But she warned: "Industry has to find inventive ways of blocking the flow of such horrendous pictures which are only produced through the suffering of defenceless children - many of who are not even old enough to go to school.

It looks like a pretext for just getting stuck into that all-important rape, and it looks also as if, as in certain movies by Gaspar Noé and Lars von Trier, the director believes that showing the violent, explicit rape of a defenceless woman is the last word in hardcore, the last word in keeping it real.