(1) But the problem is because the targets are civilians, they are completely defenceless.
(2) The stereotypical image of a nation in which rising numbers of pensioners are being kept alive by modern medicine – but are crippled by arthritis, heart disease and Alzheimer's, and live huddled and defenceless in old people's homes – is simply not true.
(3) Just why William kills innocent and defenceless deer does not matter – the fact is, he does it, and we must go on and on asking why any form of violence is acceptable to the British establishment.
(4) Ben Flower tested that theory to the limit with his attack on an initially niggling but ultimately defenceless Lance Hohaia which ensured that the 17th Super League Grand Final made a greater national and international impact than any of the previous 16.
(5) 'They kill defenceless people': thousands flee Philippine city of Marawi Read more Who are the gunmen?
(6) Kony 2012 , the video that has now been seen 80m times, may have generated more heat than light on a number of issues: Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army , is no longer in northern Uganda; the region desperately needs money for resettlement; and focusing on one deranged war criminal who must face justice for his crimes will not end the practice of militias preying on defenceless villagers in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and the DRC.
(7) "They feel defensive and defenceless, and none of that makes us any safer."
(8) As their hot blood pours in torrents into the sea, the defenceless whales are finished off by winching them up by the tail to force their massive heads beneath the surface and electrocuting them as they thrash and drown in panicked desperation.
(9) There is no precedent in organised sport where punching a defenceless opponent nine times on the ground when he has collapsed but is conscious is acceptable.
(10) [Spoiler] Many too will be horrified by an interactive torture scene that pushes the player to perform acts of cruelty on a defenceless victim [spoiler ends] .
(11) Areas of control in Aleppo city and governorate Kerry and other senior officials have recently argued that US attempts to stem the violence are being ignored and that citizens and some armed groups nominally supported by the US are being left defenceless by Russian and Syrian strikes.
(12) "The callous act of deliberately ramming a boat full of hundreds of defenceless people is a crime that must not go unpunished.
(13) Concerning group 2: a) No one may be expected to kill an innocent, defenceless human being; and there does not exist any right of demanding such a thing.
(14) When you're suddenly tasked with steering a defenceless, vulnerable creature through life, the state of the planet instantly feels like less of a wearying joke and more of an outrageous affront to human decency.
(15) He had run for his life but tripped over a low fence and was stabbed while defenceless on the ground.
(16) Those left defenceless blamed impotent UN soldiers, but the real problem lay with a feckless and divided security council.
(17) Before Sandy, I said it was that with the extra energy in the atmosphere-ocean system it feeds super storms that intersect mega-cities left rendered defenceless by rising seas," McNutt said in a brief interview following her public remarks.
(18) He added that "those who use chemical weapons against defenceless men, women and children ... must be held accountable".
(19) The court heard how "vulnerable and defenceless" Sanam deteriorated over four weeks and died in severe pain, but to avoid being found out the defendants did not seek medical help.
(20) "Unlimited immigration from eastern Europe and elsewhere has left many British working people pretty much defenceless against constant downgrades in their pay and employment conditions."
Unarmed
Definition:
(a.) Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
(a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(3) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(4) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(5) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(6) A similar shooting of five unarmed Chechens, one a pregnant woman, in Quetta last month is also under investigation.
(7) The right is very flexible on industrial action: in the 80s striking miners were characterised as violent and feckless, despite being unarmed against mounted police and arguably the opposite of feckless – battling to keep backbreaking jobs.
(8) The trial of the former police officer who shot dead Walter Scott, an unarmed African American , in an incident that was caught on cellphone video and reignited the debate on race and policing in the US, has ended in a mistrial.
(9) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(10) Tony Abbott announced the memorial plans while admitting his frustration at the inability of the multinational police team, including unarmed Australian federal police, to enter the wreckage site in eastern Ukraine to recover bodies.
(11) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
(12) Gun sales are continuing to spike around Ferguson, Missouri, as security firms plead with authorities to make it easier for them to hire new guards in advance of a grand jury’s decision on whether to charge a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.
(13) They also described seeing LTTE fighters, some armed, among the unarmed refugees.
(14) Caro Gonzales, a 26-year-old member of the Chemehuevi tribe and an anti-police violence activist in Washington state, said the language from law enforcement officials resembled that used to discredit unarmed black men killed by police.
(15) There are growing questions about Obama’s response to a prominent set of police killings of unarmed black men and children that have raised questions about alleged discriminatory policing and impunity.
(16) Almost uniquely in Europe he gave us not a gun-toting paramilitary gendarmerie but "citizens in uniform", an unarmed police force under civilian control.
(17) Madison police chief says officer shooting of unarmed man has similarities to Ferguson Read more According to radio audio posted online in the days after the incident, the first 911 call came in around 6.30pm.
(18) There was widespread shock earlier this month at video footage of paramilitary soldiers shooting an unarmed 22-year-old man in a Karachi park, then leaving him to bleed to death.
(19) Some casualties were accidentally caused by air strikes, but many also are said to involve British troops firing on unarmed drivers or motorcyclists who come "too close" to convoys or patrols.
(20) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.