Sentence examples for perpetrated before from inspiring English sources

It's not that frauds haven't been perpetrated before; what's worrisome is that, maybe for the first time, the question people are raising isn't whether the amazing story is true, but whether it matters if it's true.

Later — and I collected innumerable accounts on this subject — they were the impassive witnesses to the actions that were perpetrated before their eyes… At the very least, the questions that such facts raise are legitimate.

In 2006, the then centre-left government introduced an amnesty that continues to apply to crimes perpetrated before it took effect.Since Italian courts seldom jail people over the age of 70, and Mr Berlusconi is 76, he would almost certainly get a choice between community service and house arrest.

The investigations continue but the ICC can only look at crimes committed since July 2002 and so many atrocities were perpetrated before that date, as the UN mapping report documents.

To adequately adjust for confounders and to account for differences between child sexual abuse that is perpetrated before and after the age of 12, multinomial logistic regression was used.

As any politician knows, it is easier to justify intervention after atrocities have been perpetrated than before.

"Think about how many large-scale terrorist attacks have been successfully perpetrated well before anyone ever heard the name Edward Snowden," Greenwald said, citing a handful of attacks, from the 2002 bombing in Bali to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, as evidence.

As he explained, the church where the murders were committed is a symbol to the black community not least because of the attacks that have been perpetrated there before.

The 1980s autoclaps is coming because a hate-filled teacher has cut off a boy's dreadlocks; because such violence has been perpetrated and absorbed before; because years earlier a dreadlocked Rasta was arrested on a trumped-up charge and his locks were cut off by virulent police (for the righteous Rastaman, a fate as tragic as Samson's).

The communist countries' authorities have perpetrated this trick before, since they exchanged only limited amounts of the old currency when taking it out of circulation.

We can be justifiably appalled at both crimes of commission as well as crimes of omission perpetrated by every generation before and including our own.