Genocide

//ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd//

"Genocide" in a Sentence (23 examples)

The victims of the genocide were buried in mass graves spread over 25 square kilometers.

The Armenian Genocide left a total of one million and five hundred thousand deaths, including men, women and children.

The "Grey Wolves" are a Turkish ultranationalist, neofascist, anti-Kurd movement that denies the genocide of the Armenian people.

Today, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of genocide struggle for recognition of the massacres, seeking justice for past crimes on behalf of family members who were brutally murdered.

Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity.

Speaking of genocide, today is Columbus Day.

Genocide is a crime against humanity.

Committing genocide is one of the biggest crimes against humanity.

Deportation and genocide are two different things.

If the Ottoman Empire had committed genocide against the Armenians, they would not have a country now called Armenia.

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A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.

Shaddam IV: I want fifty legion of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once! Subordinate: Fifty legions? That's our entire reserves as well. Shaddam IV: This is genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!

Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.

Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]

I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.

What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.

The three main playstyles are neutral (the player kills some, but not all monsters), pacifist (all monsters are spared) and genocide (all monsters are eliminated).

Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's …

A clue appears in the Nazis finding the Gypsies dirty and disorderly (for not only Jews were genocided).

You just know it makes much more sense to encourage brutal governments to buy our WMD technology than to get them to put food in the empty bellies of their people or quit genociding the populace.

It is unlikely that Sulla succeeded in genociding the Samnites, since their mountains offered many refuges, but in subsequent centuries the Samnites disappeared, being absorbed into the general population of Italy.

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