Sentence examples for to atrocities from inspiring English sources
noun
The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
Too often, a failure of democracy is what starts a country down the road to atrocities.
Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries.
Mr. Waldheim had hidden his membership in a Nazi military unit linked to atrocities.
Would America "betray" itself by turning a blind eye to atrocities under different, less favourable, circumstances?
The original referred to atrocities committed in the Congo Free State by King Alphonso II.
Until his death in 2012 Hobsbawm continued to extend his heavy-hearted approval to atrocities.
Abu Yasser, whose given name is Ammar Hamid Mahmoud Hussein, admitted, without shame, to atrocities.
Ultimately it is unrealistic to think the ICC can respond to atrocities the world over.
Eyewitness accounts of the First Crusades, at the turn of the eleventh century, testify to atrocities committed.
As Obama put it: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries.
"The collapse of the regime will lead to atrocities, communities targeting communities, as in Rwanda," he said.
