Sentence examples for they were perpetrated from inspiring English sources

They were perpetrated or witnessed by individuals or small groups.

Their aim was to stop terrorist attacks before they were perpetrated.

Indeed, Miskolc is proof that ignorance of past atrocities is endemic even in places where they were perpetrated.

Somewhat unconvincingly, Keynes responded that "dangerous acts" were all right so long as they were perpetrated by the right people – ie, by the progressive, socially congenial elite educated at Oxbridge or Harvard.

He declared the Sept. 11 attacks as "horrific" and said that they were "perpetrated by cult of fanatics who had self-mutilated their ears and tongues, and could only communicate with perceived opponents through carnage and devastation".

In the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg in 1945 46 (the Nürnberg trials), German high officials were tried not only for "crimes against peace" and "war crimes" but also for "crimes against humanity" committed against civilian populations, even if the crimes were in accordance with the laws of the country in which they were perpetrated.

But then they did plenty of things which would have been perceived entirely differently had they been perpetrated by the Spice Boys.

Violence, threats of violence, destruction of property and harassment are justifiably considered criminal acts no matter how worthy the cause for which they are perpetrated.

Basic securities must be afforded to each and every member of the community, and violations of these vital interests are not justified, whether they be perpetrated by other individuals or government, since they contravene the distributive elements of utilitarian theory.

They're perpetrated by an extreme minority that's committed to ruling through fear and intimidation," the petition says.

His crimes are but the worst exposed by man, but doubly so when they are perpetrated by a man posing of the cloth: a child of 11, one sired by those taken in by his spiels across the states, he was discovered with such lamb en flagrante, in the very robes you see across his back now.