Sentences with 'perpetrated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word perpetrated and other words derived from it.
• « The leading generals of the German General Staff, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, themselves authors of the "stab in the back" myth, did their best to popularise the idea that Germany "would have won" but for the sabotage perpetrated by a sinister conspiracy of foreign agents, Communists and (like virtually every obscure conspiracy theory of the 20th century) Jews. »
• « The term "genocide" was adopted immediately after World War II because of the need to designate, to name, the most horrendous crime perpetrated by the Nazi regime: the systematic, state-directed murder of European Jews. »
• « Since the ancient Greeks, the proud distinction between civilisation and barbarism had been maintained in the minds of the social and political elites of "the West", yet it was some of those same elites who perpetrated the ultimate act of barbarism in the 20th century: the Holocaust. »
• « Since the 1950s, when they occupied Tibet, the Chinese invaders have perpetrated one of the most brutal religious persecutions of the 20th century. »