Sentence examples for serious atrocities from inspiring English sources

"When John Negroponte was ambassador he looked the other way when serious atrocities were committed.

Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch has accused Mr Negroponte of "looking the other way when serious atrocities were committed".

Some accused Iran of igniting the situation further by training and arming the Shia militias, who were reported to have committed serious atrocities against the Sunnis in Iraq.

But from the most serious atrocities to the most minor, from rape and assault to catcalls and street harassment, women around the world are taking a stand against gender prejudice in all its forms.

"Let's remind ourselves – and this isn't scaremongering, it happens to be true [that without such intelligence] – there would have been scores of really serious atrocities killing your constituents and many others," he said.

"What is very unfortunate is that history has revealed American complicity in serious atrocities in the 1980s and, in effect, all these nominations may serve to rewrite history and rehabilitate a very unfortunate period of our history".

Unless the Foreign Office warns against travel to Turkey's biggest city - and experience suggests that it would take a very serious atrocity aimed at tourists to do that - then flights and holidays will go ahead as normal.

Unless the Foreign Office warns against travel to the main resorts – and experience suggests that such a change would take a very serious atrocity indeed – then flights and holidays will go ahead as planned.

He told BBC Radio 4: "France, clearly, has suffered some serious terrorist atrocities, and we need to stand with France.

"France, clearly, has suffered some serious terrorist atrocities, and we need to stand with France," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.

The 545-page report on 600 of the country's most serious reported atrocities raises the question of whether Rwanda could be found guilty of genocide against Hutu during the war in neighboring Congo, but says international courts would need to rule on individual cases.