Sentence examples for vast massacres from inspiring English sources

Yet it all sounds small beer: in a world of vast massacres and civil wars, of al-Qaeda and Kashmir, does Cyprus's fate really matter?It does: as in Kashmir (or Palestine), trivial places by world standards, much more is involved.

By John Updike The New Yorker, January 22 , 1966P. 21 From South Africa comes word that a vast massacre took place a million years ago on the plains of Transvaal; here Homo erectus, a predecessor of Homo sapiens, wielding weapons fashioned from the jawbones of leopards, defeated an army of ape-men (Paranthropus) who could only throw stones.

The New Yorker, January 22 , 1966P. 21 From South Africa comes word that a vast massacre took place a million years ago on the plains of Transvaal; here Homo erectus, a predecessor of Homo sapiens, wielding weapons fashioned from the jawbones of leopards, defeated an army of ape-men (Paranthropus) who could only throw stones.

In the 1980's Israeli mercenaries trained illegal antiguerrilla militias, right-wing groups that have accounted for the vast majority of massacres in Colombia.

The Islamic State – aka Isis (in current Guardian house style) – is a scary and much-discussed phenomenon, erasing borders, conquering vast areas of Iraq and Syria, massacring its enemies and beheading hostages in slick snuff and propaganda videos.

In post-Tiananmen China, the Communist party could only turn their country into a vast export credit zone with massacres and mass imprisonment that made ordinary Chinese workers too terrified to ask for even the most meager rights.

Armenians say vast numbers of their countrymen were massacred.

You know, when Pulse happened, the vast majority who died in the massacre were Puerto Rican.

Fighting left the the centuries-old casbah in Nablus in ruins, and there was vast destruction -- along with rumors of massacres that the Israelis denied -- in Jenin.

It is the epitaph of the 300 Spartans massacred at Thermopylae by a vast Persian army in 480BC, after giving the invaders a run for their money.

Luxor was the scene in 1997 of the massacre of more than 60 people, the vast majority foreign tourists, by militants armed with guns and knives.