Sentence examples for violations inflicted from inspiring English sources
An articulate student activist turned refugee with movie star good looks, he tries to make a difference by documenting the human-rights violations inflicted on Karen villagers by the military of Myanmar, formerly Burma.
The singer and practitioner of tantric lovemaking this week cancelled the Kazakhstan leg of his tour because he didn't wish to be seen to support the alleged human rights violations inflicted by the country's government on its oil and gas workers.
Although it is impossible for me to know the true extent of human rights violations inflicted on the people of this wonderful country by the government, or how much money they earn as a result of our presence, of three things I feel I can be sure.
Prince Zeid, tasked with investigating and delivering a report that looked inward, documented substantial sexual abuses by those serving under the UN flag, particularly violations inflicted upon children.
When Mayor Bill de Blasio ran for office, he talked about radically cutting back one such measure, the N.Y.P.D.'s stop-and-frisk policies, which had become not only a civil-rights violation inflicted on a generation of mostly young black and Latino New Yorkers but counterproductive.
In decisions that were sometimes unanimous and sometimes split, the jurors found Ms. Adaya and a company that owns the hotel liable both for the civil rights violation and for inflicting emotional distress, among other violations.
The Alien Tort Statute that was the focus of this decision allows U.S. courts to have jurisdiction in civil suits based upon injuries allegedly inflicted in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.
The source of Patrick's power, in short, is not just violation but the rite of violation — the same pain being inflicted again and again, until it acquires the patina of the mock sacred.
Jennifer K. Harbury, a lawyer for Mr. Peltier, said, "I think it's inappropriate and very disturbing for members of our government's armed police forces to march through the streets of Washington, D.C., to block the correction of the violation of rights that they inflicted not only on Mr. Peltier but on Native Americans throughout the Pine Ridge reservation".
According to Wikipedia, Eugenics is now "widely regarded as a brutal movement which inflicted massive human rights violations on millions of people.
In a case that pitted competing interests of public safety, personal privacy and the broad immunity of the government from liability lawsuits, the court's more conservative majority found that Congress had not allowed compensation for mental anguish when violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 inflicted no actual damage, like a loss of income.
