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How to use the word INDISCRIMINATE in a Sentence?

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We did not prepare for a pogrom on the scale of dozens of people who come with incendiary devices… they go and set fire to random Palestinian houses, vehicles, etc. – simply indiscriminate terror.

Yehuda Fuchs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While violence against health care in conflict zones is a global phenomenon, Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s health system in 2022 stands out for its scale and indiscriminate violence against civilian infrastructure, we have clearly seen from the pattern [in the data] a method of warfare which is incompatible with the respect for international humanitarian law and needs to be addressed.

Christina Wille

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m troubled by this trend, because what I think the interpretation will be is that this is working, deSantis is raising his profile every single week. He is putting himself in a better position to potentially win the presidency. And he is doing it through indiscriminate use of state power, not only to achieve kind of broader ends, but also just to score points.

Katherine Mangu-Ward

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we're seeing is a weeding out of investors that were flushed with liquidity. They bought first and asked questions with meme stocks, SPACs, NFTs, there was a lot of what I call indiscriminate buying. And now we're seeing some indiscriminate selling.

Leo Grohowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pattern of indiscriminate attacks amounts to a war crime just as a deliberate attack is, so if these are confirmed after investigation – and of course, we don't have those investigations yet – they could be war crimes.

Leonard Rubenstein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Through his alleged leading role in translating, narrating, and advancing ISIS's online propaganda, Khalifa promoted the terrorist group, furthered its worldwide recruitment efforts, and expanded the reach of videos that glorified the horrific murders and indiscriminate cruelty of ISIS.

Raj Parekh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are seeing homes destroyed, medical staff and patients put at tremendous risk, and hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure damaged, the use of explosive weaponry in cities is having an indiscriminate impact on the population.

Eloi Fillion

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

LGBTQ persons continuously experience indiscriminate arrest and discrimination in Ghana because of their known or perceived sexual orientation... so some organizations chose to train some individuals within their various localities on human rights laws that exist in Ghana and how they can protect themselves and deal with issues of abuses when they arise within their local spaces.

Alex Kofi Donkor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With Hamas and other Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorists continuing to launch indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israel, Americans have seen the images of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense systems repeatedly intercepting rockets and saving the lives of countless civilians.

Bill Hagerty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am beyond sickened. I refuse to accept this emergency situation as normal, people have the right to travel between work and home, and around town, without the fear of being shot, and possibly killed, by reckless, indiscriminate gunfire.

Jim Kenney

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our efforts must meet the indiscriminate nature of COVID-19 with empathy and compassion for all our neighbors.

Ron Nirenberg

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Myanmar military onslaught has increasingly targeted civilians with indiscriminate artillery attacks and aerial bombings that amount to soldiers wantonly retaliating against populations living near spots where Arakan Army has staged ambushes or IED attacks.

Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The coronavirus is indiscriminate. It does not know race. What it knows instead is chronic medical conditions.

Angela Alsobrooks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are very respectful of what other governments decide, but we think that these unfortunate events, which occurred in the U.S., should lead to reflection, analysis and the decision to control the indiscriminate sale of weapons.

Lopez Obrador

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The GRU's actions are reckless and indiscriminate : Russian GRU intelligence service operatives try to undermine and interfere in elections in other countries ; Russian GRU intelligence service operatives are even prepared to damage Russian companies and Russian citizens.

Jeremy Hunt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nicaragua has become a huge prison which seems to be without any controls, however everyday we see a climate of terror and indiscriminate persecution.

Felix Maradiaga

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I call on the administration to continue the exemptions and negotiations with these important national security partners to find a solution and address the damage caused to American exporters. And the administration will need to come to Capitol Hill to provide answers about the indiscriminate harm these tariffs are causing our local businesses.

Kevin Brady

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This attempted murder using a weapons-grade nerve agent in a British town was not just a crime against the Skripals, it was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom, putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk.

Theresa May

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Another promise cruelly broken by President Trump, this one with heartbreaking consequences for brave young DREAMers across the nation, instead of honoring the protections of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative, President Trump has unleashed an indiscriminate deportation dragnet of appalling inhumanity.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Bombing cannot be indiscriminate in areas in which there is a civilian population.

Silvia Dallatomasina

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's indiscriminate about who can be a soldier of the caliphate ... and it's indiscriminate about which attacks the group will claim as its own.

Max Abrahms

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The indiscriminate use of chemicals, rubber bullets and stun grenades against vulnerable populations, and particularly without reasons for such force, is a dangerous and deplorable act.

George Kyritsis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Indiscriminate bombing where we don't care if we are killing innocents or combatants is just inconsistent with our values.

Sean MacFarland

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What the Court of Appeals has actually affirmed is that our nation's laws, as currently constituted, legitimize the indiscriminate, unnecessary killing of animals.

Michael Harris

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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