indiscriminate

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• “Violence towards this community was truly extensive and indiscriminate in terms of age and sex,” says biological anthropologist Marta Mirazón Lahr of the University of Cambridge.

• That injury pattern more likely arose from periodic, indiscriminate raids rather than a single battle, in which the dead would have consisted mainly of male fighters, the researchers say.

• The criminals’ tactics have evolved from indiscriminate “spray and pray” campaigns seeking a few hundred dollars apiece to targeting specific businesses, government agencies and nonprofit groups with multimillion-dollar demands.

• “We have to have the police officers that we need, and they have to be able to do their jobs,” the mayor said, expressing worry about recommendations from a commission to change police tactics to avoid indiscriminate stops by police.

• The videos that emerged, taken by courageous residents, are too harrowing to watch, showing summary executions of already surrendered, apprehended or wounded suspects, along with indiscriminate shooting.

• The pro-Russian separatists and their allies inside Russia have become indiscriminate with some of their heavy weapons.

• Or did a band of reactionary theocrats put their progressive brethren to the indiscriminate sword?

• College rankings are ubiquitous, confusing, and often indiscriminate.

• Their fire was indiscriminate at best, targeting civilians at worst.

• For decades, mainstream Palestinian thought has regarded the killing of Jews as legitimate.