atrocity

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• Perhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws.

• It’s rare to see television capture the many smaller moral failures nested within the atrocity of slavery, the way it forced the enslaved to make desperate choices and made monsters of its beneficiaries.

• Decades later, the United Nations international tribunals that investigated atrocities committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia in the 1990s brought, in each instance, only one woman to justice.

• This matters, because if women are treated as less capable in one regard – even one that involves horrible atrocities – it can extend to other realms, too.

• Some 670,000 people from Cameroon, which has a population nearly as large as Texas, have been displaced by the atrocities, and an estimated 60,000 have sought refuge next door in Nigeria.

• In this other video, 29-year-old Crawford is not committing an atrocity such as might be expected of ISIS.

• Fueled by atrocity and a blitzkrieg of gains in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has enjoyed a meteoric climb to notoriety.

• It is this mindless atrocity, driven by both avarice and animosity, that is at play in the film.

• But thankfully, spurred in large part by social media, the world is finally addressing this atrocity.

• Suffice it to say, eight years after the Halimi atrocity, the case still inflames opinion.

• The atrocity stories were all that Aunt Harriet knew of the war, and all she could think of now.