Sentence examples similar to thing to atrocities from inspiring English sources

I know it's not the popular thing to do - to admit to such an atrocity but it is true.

Critics of the United Nations have used the atrocities of 1971 to argue that military intervention was the only thing to stop the mass murder.

But it's a very different thing to be presented with a hypothetical bank robbery, and a real-life, actual, terrorist atrocity.

Without this stark and horrible example of how prejudice and fascism can lead to atrocities, would such things be as vilified as they are today?

The parallels to atrocities of this and the last century – atrocities we believe we are distanced from – are glaring.

"At first it seemed to me that Romanians were the target, but the Charlie Hebdo atrocity took things to a new level.

Some shouted mean things to customers wearing leather; others would show horrific pictures of animal atrocities.

The barriers to atrocity are low.

Photographs of violence ask us to bear witness to atrocity.

Instead, Marwat's exposure to atrocity and poverty galvanised him.

It's one of several poems in Hayden's oeuvre in which he uses the breadth of his language, experience, and historical research to reckon with the peculiar institution, to make sense of the staggering human atrocity of the thing, and to examine slavery's legacy in contemporary American life.