Sentence examples for perpetrates from inspiring English sources

If enough people start refusing to support any candidate who needlessly terrorizes innocents, perpetrates radical assaults on civil liberties, goes to war without Congress, or persecutes whistleblowers, among other misdeeds, post-9/11 excesses will be reined in..

It will show little restraint in the violence that it perpetrates, killing many civilians as well as security personnel.

Traditional Cartesian dualism, Ryle says, perpetrates a serious confusion when, looking beyond the human body (which exists in space and is subject to mechanical laws), it views the mind as an additional mysterious thing not subject to observation or to mechanical laws, rather than as the form or organizing principle of the body.

But the biggest act of control in this novel is the one Shriver perpetrates on the reader.

A spokesman said that the charity "utterly refutes the strong implication of the judge's comments that a child's behaviour can somehow mitigate that of an adult who perpetrates sexual violence against her".

But the trouble with the ways of Mourinho are that when the winning stops and the pretty lines – "little horses need milk" and all that – cease, there is nothing underpinning the structure except the spite and bile he perpetrates.

The crime in this troubling work of art is not being perpetrated by "rioters", but by the police.

He said the pontiff's decision to refer to the mass killing of Armenians along with crimes perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism gave the Vatican's "highest sanction" to genocide recognition.

If you want respect, you have to earn it.'" If you travel in a city during rush hour, the chances are you will have seen someone on a bicycle pull a stunt that, had it been perpetrated by a car driver, would have seen them dragged from the wheel and strung from the nearest lamp-post.

The last is commonly regarded to have been at Coniston, Northern Territory, in 1928 – notwithstanding the countless other acts of extreme violence (including custodial deaths) inextricably linked to colonialism, that have since been perpetrated against Indigenous Australians.

But the thousands of cases we can now access can reinforce international political will and practice in facing the crimes now being perpetrated in the Middle East and elsewhere".