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How to use the word victims in a Sentence?

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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

– Susan Sontag

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One of the things that we’ve seen year after a year since 2015, with the addition of the Special Victims Counsel program – which are attorneys that represent victims throughout the military justice process – is that victims have made it abundantly clear that they would like to help see the department hold their offenders appropriately accountable, but they’d like to do it through nonconfrontational means, and that’s essentially what we see in the percentages with administrative actions and discharges and non-judicial punishment.

– Nate Galbreath

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Thousands of victims – particularly women and children – are at very serious risk because of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this case as are potential victims of future mass shootings, often perpetrated by domestic abusers.

– Douglas Letter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s part of a bigger story of combating hate. And it is a priority for the president. And it’s, for me, extremely meaningful to be part of that effort to combat that hate. Not only because it’s, you know, it’s against my community, but those of us who have been the victims. Communities of victims of this type of hate are coming together to fight hate in all its forms.

– Ali Zaidi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Philstavious Dowdell and the other victims of the senseless tragedy last night.

– Rich Rodriguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We cannot just look at the perpetrators and the effects of this law on them, we have to look at the victims and the effect of this law on their prospects for justice.

– Tony Montalto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our city is heartbroken, these five victims should not be dead – just like everyone else who was killed by gun violence in our city, in our country, should not be dead.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is painful, painful for all of the families I know, it just hits home in a unique way when you know one of the victims so well.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m grateful to our dedicated career prosecutors and victims’ counselors who tried this case. They worked hard to make a complete and accurate presentation of the facts to the jury, our hearts continue to break for the Foster family. We hope this verdict brings closure and peace to the victim’s family.

– Travis County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In effect, those actions took away the voices of the protestors, the focus on the six victims who lost their lives, and the families who lost their loved ones.

– Cameron Sexton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This sham deal does not even pay for most victims’ medical bills, medical costs alone can range from $140,000 to more than $1.4 million per victim for ovarian cancer cases. The costs for mesothelioma are even higher.

– Jason Itkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s like, ‘Well, there’s antisemitism. Therefore, racism is not a Jewish problem because Jews are victims.

– Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

– Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tragedy that happened in my state was the result of a depraved person and somebody very very sick. And the result has been absolutely devastating for the people in my community. Right now with the victims, the family and the people in my community – we are all mourning right now.

– Bill Hagerty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was a plain extortion. And I don’t know, since when we’ve decided to start prosecuting extortion victims. He’s denied, vehemently denied, this affair.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody wants to watch a movie about their loved one being held against their will, i really wanted him to stay in jail. I wanted him to do time because I wanted him to not be able to run away from the women that he killed. Because I know that they spooked him. I know that they came back to haunt him. His death was so much easier than his victims’ (deaths).

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There has been a long-time failure by HISD and the victims of that failure are the students.

– Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t want to criticize the investigators, but they both seemed to lack empathy for me and for my situation and seemed to be unsure of themselves, maybe they just didn’t have much experience interviewing victims like me.

– Hope Hicks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s assume he did, for this argument, this was a plain extortion. I don’t know when we started prosecuting extortion victims. He has vehemently denied this affair. But he had to pay money because there was going to be an allegation that was going to be publicly embarrassing to him, regardless of the campaign.

– Joe Tacopina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There could have been more victims if police had not intervened so quickly.

– The Interior Minister

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy.

– Adam Wagner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My own side of the aisle, when it comes to vindicating the rights of citizens to get into court, to have their day in court, is often very, very slow to endorse that approach and very, very wary, but I think the time has come to say we must give individuals, we must give parents, we must give kids and victims that most basic right.

– Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today’s vote, on International Women’s Day no less, shows a real disconnect between the rhetoric we hear from elected leaders who claim to support victims of workplace sexual harassment and the pass they give to party loyalists in the next breath. It’s disheartening to say the least.

– Naomi Seligman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s still this culture of fear that surrounds victims, until we see someone actually being brought down for their actions, victims aren’t going to feel comfortable enough to continue to come forward.

– Hope Hicks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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