Example sentences of "the victims " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victims were among some 3,000 black Mauritanians arrested late last year . |
| 2 | THE VICTIMS DESERVE IT . |
| 3 | The organization urgently appealed to the Saudi king to stop the torture and brought the plight of the victims to international attention . |
| 4 | Below : Procession in 1983 in Trafalgar Square before the Memorial Service in St Martins in the Fields organised by Amnesty International for the victims of political killings by governments . |
| 5 | The Special Squads were the Nazis ' ‘ most demonic crime ’ , representing ‘ an attempt to shift on to others — specifically the victims — the burden of guilt , so that they were deprived even of the solace of innocence ’ . |
| 6 | More often than not the victims have serious medical problems , show a long history of social inadequacy , or are clearly suffering from mental illness . |
| 7 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 8 | That they are the victims and hostages |
| 9 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 10 | If one rejects Freud 's suggestion — for instance , by quoting contemporary accounts from the victims — then one is inescapably positing a transhistorical human nature . |
| 11 | REPEATED attacks on cross-examination by defence barristers of the victims of alleged sexual offences were misplaced and naive , David Cocks QC , chairman of the Criminal Bar Association , told the conference . |
| 12 | John Simpson 's lucid report for Panorama , following groups of mujahedin through most of this year , attested to both the benevolent power of photography — cameramen Chris Hooke and Peter Juvenal courageouslycaught images of broken bodies and wrecked villages , of fire and snow — and the more dubious power of America and Russia , picking up the tab for the fighters but not the victims . |
| 13 | One of the victims was in a critical condition , suffering from severe burns , but the other three were allowed home after treatment for shock . |
| 14 | And the FBI said it had participated only to help fingerprint the victims ; yet there is an FBI report on the incident with over 200 pages blacked out for national security reasons . |
| 15 | Two separate services were held in the barracks church for five of the victims . |
| 16 | The organisation took root because the originators of the experiment were shocked at how little the victims of crimes knew about getting assistance , says Helen Reeves , director of Victim Support . |
| 17 | The source said the families of the victims were not allowed to view the bodies or bury them . |
| 18 | Cathy Newman , author of the report , which is based on the project 's first two years of operation , from 1985-87 , said : ‘ Many of those involved in prostitution , particularly females , were the victims of physical abuse from the pimps they worked with . |
| 19 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 20 | The victims have included priests , human rights workers and members of the judiciary investigating human rights abuses . |
| 21 | A young Tory activist from Preston said : ‘ We are the victims of our own success . |
| 22 | These composers are not coldly exploiting their audiences ' kindness ; they are all equally the victims of the going ideology . |
| 23 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 24 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | ‘ I was approached by some of the victims of that situation ( the Northern Ireland conflict ) to help them in whatever way I could . |
| 26 | The compassion and sympathy which the victims of these offences naturally cause in all policemen can sometimes be complicated by the anger and emotional hatred felt toward the perpetrator , and the tough type of policeman may find it difficult to distance the one reaction from the other . |
| 27 | No doubt they are also the victims of a gross and barbarous fallacy . |
| 28 | Thus , homosexual prisoners were often tainted by the crimes of homosexual guards — even though they themselves were often the victims , ( pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 29 | At the same time they remained , as we all remain , implicated in other kinds of discrimination of which they and we , originally and subsequently , are the agents rather than the victims , or maybe both agents and victims . |
| 30 | We must not simply take the victims role . |