Sentence examples for thousands of executions from inspiring English sources
"During Elizabeth's time, there were thousands of executions … People are getting knocked off all the time.
Amen also suggested that there were possibly "thousands of executions carried out in China" in 2017 — far more than in any other country.
By the 1990s the violence had subsided - partly as a result of a crackdown on dissent and thousands of executions - but a major legacy of those times is a culture of very strict security in public buildings and airports enforced by the Revolutionary Guards across the country.
A few years ago, the Soviet Union had thousands of executions annually.
The French Revolution's Committee of Public Safety ordered thousands of executions by guillotine.
This resulted, according to human rights groups, in hundreds, and possibly thousands, of executions.
We have hundreds of executions of this melody planned.
Numerous historians and human rights groups concluded that Mr. Castro's government carried out thousands of political executions.
Army officers who helped lead the North Vietnamese assault that led to occupation of this city for 25 days admitted recently that soldiers under their command may have committed what one officer called unspecified "mistakes". Measured against the accusations, and evidence, of thousands of planned executions by their forces, concessions of "mistakes" may seem small.
The arrests centered on two cases: the 1981 disappearance of 14-year-old Marco Antonio Molina Theissen -- a crime acknowledge by the Guatemalan State when the case came before the Inter-American Court of hundredsghts -- and hundreds of extrajudicial executions uncovered at Creompaz, a site currently used for training UN peacekeepers in Cobán, Verapaz that was once known as Military Zone 21 (MZ21).
Critically, though, the report's headline figure omits the thousands of estimated annual executions carried out by China, which Amnesty International calls "the world's top executioner". The group stopped providing estimates for China a decade ago, after the government there began misrepresenting the numbers, which are only minimum estimates.
