Sentence examples for was being perpetrated from inspiring English sources

A huge fraud was being perpetrated.

JPMorgan officials "not only should have known that a fraud was being perpetrated, they did know," he said.

In a sense, we are like the white South Africans who kept quiet while apartheid was being perpetrated in their name.

She cried every morning as we dropped her off, apparently a sign of healthy attachment though easily misconstrued (by me) as an indication that some great barbarism was being perpetrated.

Philip Roth characterized this outcome as "yet another lurid Kafkaesque irony" that was being "perpetrated on 20th-century Western culture," observing not only that Kafka was not German but also that his three sisters perished in Nazi death camps.

We might debate the precise criteria, but we would have no problem denying the saintliness of someone who knew evil was being perpetrated and made no effort to prevent it.

"And violence is being perpetrated against them".

Emotional and spiritual abuse has been and is being perpetrated against gay young people.

But when its evils were being perpetrated, Hollywood was participating in them, instead of exposing them.

The new CPS guidelines highlight the changing landscape in which violence against women is being perpetrated.

"It's an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza," he said.