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atrocity

An atrocity is a very cruel, brutal, and sometimes criminal actions.

atrocity

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane an act of atrocious cruelty

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Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday.
You actually wanted me to agree to this? This atrocity?
I don't think there's very much more that can be said about that particular atrocity.
Yes, atrocity is right.
Why this atrocity?
Ah, my second world war nazi atrocity book came at last. - - good heavens.
You're going to tell me who commissioned you to work on this, this atrocity.
On the contrary, I'm just in time to prevent an atrocity.
We must put an end to this atrocity, do you hear me?
Those horrible, atrocity-filled vermin!
They're convinced he faked the atrocity reports for American consumption, to stoke up a war fever.
Sacrificed to barbarians, whose only honor is atrocity.
Perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators. prepared to commit any atrocity to demoralize. and weaken the order of our society.
The Atrocity Channel.
We were instructed to continue the search and in order that the German ship not be alerted to make no mention of the atrocity until the authorities decided to release the news.
Though I dare say I'm better off not understanding. You actually wanted me to agree to this? This atrocity?
What you've done to yourselves is an atrocity.
Was it not an atrocity that that warship was built for the sole purpose of destruction.
And to further them, has turned captured American newsreel footage into an atrocity film portraying our soldiers as wanton murderers.
The atrocity part, I will shoot it again.
Those horrible, atrocity-filled vermin! Take this!
In the barren deserts of Africa and India. On the oceans of Australasia, courage, strength and youth are sacrificed, sacrificed to barbarians whose only honour is atrocity.
Perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators prepared to commit any atrocity to demoralise and weaken our society.
There's someone out there in Krustyland who has committed an atrocity.
Three nuns and five clergy are dead today in what is believed to be the latest atrocity by the killer cyborg, Robocop.
I commit myself in front of the future queen of Mersabad and I won't feel worthy of her esteem in accepting me, as her husband, if I don't succeed in killing all those that are responsible for such an atrocity.
You had nothing to do with that atrocity.
We must put an end to this atrocity, do you hear me?.
An atrocity!
In the barren deserts of Africa and India. on the oceans of Australasia. courage, strength, and youth are sacrificed. Sacrificed to barbarians, whose only honor is atrocity.
No, they would never commit such an atrocity!
Carlitos committed an atrocity. -What?
I've just been informed of the latest atrocity committed by your people.
I put all this care into decorating my home, only to have it mocked by this atrocity.
Atrocity and terror are not political weapons.
I am not responsible for this baroque atrocity.
The battle of Aizu, the atrocity of the Byakko-Tai, would have been avoided.

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The United States' action is completely consistent with the principles of the international responsibility to protect (R2P) people at risk of mass-atrocity crimes, which was embraced unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005.
There can be no better demonstration of good international citizenship than a country's willingness to act when it has the capacity to prevent or avert a mass atrocity crime.
There is the humanitarian mission to protect civilian populations in Iraq and Syria from mass-atrocity crimes.
Ironically, the judge's visit comes as Belgium's anti-atrocity law is under legal and political attack.
Moreover, the UN should not only condemn, but without further delay put a stop to today's greatest atrocity: the regime's obstruction of foreign assistance to victims of the cyclone.
Nevertheless, the allies thought that the Nazi project of exterminating an entire people called for an entirely new legal approach, to ensure that such an atrocity would never happen again.
Underlying this argument is the idea that the attack was an explicitly religious act carried out by an enemy faith, whose believers - even those who denounced the atrocity - are tainted and deserve to have their constitutional rights restricted.
As ever, the unpredictable - a terrorist atrocity or a rash decision by a national leader - will take its toll.
But memories of atrocity never seem to fade, as the government-fanned anti-Japanese riots now taking place in China remind us.
There is a desperate need to re-establish consensus on how to address atrocity crimes so extreme that they may require a military response.
Consider the recent scandal surrounding atrocity photos taken by US soldiers in Afghanistan, which are now available on news outlets, including Al Jazeera, around the globe.
In effect, Suharto's visual politics of atrocity and terror created a new reality from the violence and terror associated with the demise of the old.
The visual politics of atrocity and terror is only as strong as we imagine it.
PARIS - Back in 2001, France floated a proposal that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) should voluntarily refrain from using their veto power when dealing with mass-atrocity crimes.
Advocates of the French position want these countries to forswear their veto when a clear majority supports proposed action to mitigate the risk of a mass-atrocity crime.
The moral argument that the veto should not be used in cases of mass-atrocity crimes is overwhelming.
The consolation is that trying to rely on such an escape clause in most atrocity cases would not pass the laugh test.
One response is that it is almost impossible to find any such genuinely high-minded rationale for any veto ever cast in a mass-atrocity situation.
NEW YORK - One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world's collective conscience.
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
BEIJING - Would China ever be willing to host an international policy discussion about the conditions that would legitimize invading another country to stop genocide or other mass-atrocity crimes from being committed within its borders?
Taken together, they offer reason for confidence that it may be possible to recreate international consensus, so long missing in Syria, about how to deal with the hardest mass-atrocity cases.
And the primary emphasis of the entire R2P enterprise should continue to be prevention of mass-atrocity crimes - both their occurrence and their recurrence.
But everyone understands that the alternative to Security Council cooperation is a return to the bad old days of Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo: either total inaction in the face of mass atrocity crimes, or action outlawed by the UN Charter.

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