Sentence examples for takes innocent from inspiring English sources

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"This case is yet another example of the mindless gun-related violence that too often takes innocent lives and recklessly endangers public safety".

At its worst, the trafficking system takes innocent village girls, often sold by relatives or kidnapped by neighbors, imprisons them in brothels to be raped repeatedly and leaves them dead of AIDS by their early 20's -- and yet there is far less international effort to save these children than to, say, save the Brazilian rain forest.

Holcomb was one of the eight participants in the first season of A&E's popular reality show 60 Days In, which takes innocent civilians and places them undercover in the jail.

The Special Representative of the Secretary General Ashraf Qazi expressed his grave concern at the increasing civilian death toll, stating that, "This brutal violence that takes innocent lives, especially those of children, is totally unacceptable".

At a 1980 presidential campaign stop, Ronald Reagan claimed that bussing "takes innocent children out of the neighbourhood school and makes them pawns in a social experiment that nobody wants".

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He could be an instigator, too, the kind of child who took innocent jokes too far.

But we believe there is a way to address the injustice — not by taking innocent people's lives".

But the goal behind Saturday's act was clear: to inspire fear, create havoc, take innocent lives.

I can see the appeal of ridding society of the evil minds who take innocent people lives and do some heart breaking things.

Now he appears racked with guilt that his opposition to Vietnam drove him to support bombings that might have taken innocent lives.

"And a decent society doesn't take innocent people and harm them – and we know they're being harmed – to send a message to someone else".

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