Sentence examples for vicious acts from inspiring English sources

Human responses -- sympathy, empathy and respect -- occasionally break through in people committing vicious acts.

They are exalting the most vicious acts of their own young.

Just when vicious acts threaten to sink Candide's optimism, a rope of kindness pulls him from despair.

As many as five thousand people died in the assault, including seventeen of Qadeer's relatives, making it one of the most vicious acts of Saddam's reign.

On behalf of every member of the global Muslim community, I condemn the vicious acts that occurred in Washington and New York (front page, Sept. 13).

It was here that Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen of India, used to lead her gang of robbers in vicious acts of retribution on rich, upper-caste villagers.

Mr. McElroy said the recent accusations, if true, transcended any definition of hazing, and he characterized them as "vicious criminal acts".

This week, after its first talks with the South in more than a year farcically broke down after just 22 minutes, it accused the South of "a vicious criminal act": the shifting of a border post.

Speaking at a news conference, the commissioner, Richard Dormer, said that he did not want to "speculate on what drove the suspect to such a vicious, criminal act," but signaled that investigators considered addiction a likely motive.

The last vicious act attributed to Jezebel is recorded in I Kings 21 5 16.

On the taste front, children (and adults) may well be disturbed by the gore of what was a vicious act.