Sentences with 'violations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word violations and other words derived from it.
• « In many cases, European imperial powers reacted violently to their colonial subjects' demands for independent rule, resulting in both bloodshed and grotesque human rights violations. »
• « The wars associated with the Cold War as with the process of decolonisation provided a continuous litany of human rights violations and bloodshed. »
• « Prior to the 1764 Act, colonial violations of the Navigation Acts had been tried in local courts, where sympathetic colonial juries refused to convict traders on trial. »
• « Adams wrote: "It is, moreover, [the Massachusetts House of Representatives] humble opinion, which they express with the greatest deference to the wisdom of Parliament, that the acts done there, which impose duties on the people of this province, for the sole and express purpose of raising a revenue, are violations of their natural and constitutional rights; because, not being represented in Parliament, His Majesty's Commons in Great Britain, by those acts, bestow their property without their consent." »