Sentence examples for to atrocity from inspiring English sources
noun
The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
The barriers to atrocity are low.
Instead, Marwat's exposure to atrocity and poverty galvanised him.
Photographs of violence ask us to bear witness to atrocity.
Such patterning suggests a cyclical motion within the peace-to-war, art to atrocity, narrative.
It is a system devised to be flexible enough to be convened on a battlefield, and broad enough to deal with anything from theft and insubordination to atrocity.
Most of all, the code defended the freeing of enemy slaves and the arming of black soldiers as a humanitarian imperative, not as an invitation to atrocity.
The parallels to atrocities of this and the last century – atrocities we believe we are distanced from – are glaring.
Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries.
Too often, a failure of democracy is what starts a country down the road to atrocities.
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?
