8 sentences with 'innocent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word innocent and other words derived from it.
• « -"These psychological maladies," said Mr. Fitweiler, "always cause the most innocent and unlikely person to be attributed with the cause of ... ahem ... of persecutions. »
• « The Romans were the first to codify the idea that someone accused of a crime was innocent until proven guilty; this was a totally radical idea in the field of justice, which in the rest of the ancient world normally considered the accused guilty unless guilt could be conclusively disproved. »
• « Burke himself was particularly aggrieved by the execution of the French queen Marie Antoinette, whom he saw as a perfectly innocent victim. »
• « In other words, many 'regular soldiers', not just Nazi party members, were responsible for killing innocent men, women and children, often for days at a time and at point-blank range. This aspect of the Holocaust is known today as the "Holocaust by bullets", an aspect that historians overlooked for many decades after the war. »
• « Many members of the Einsatzgruppen (German mobile killing squads) suffered from mental breakdowns from murdering innocent people day after day. There were never many Einsatzgruppen to begin with: four teams with about 6,000 soldiers assigned to them in total. »
• « The Holocaust was one of the great traumas associated with the Second World War. It forced the Western world to confront the fact that a highly advanced and "civilised" nation in the heart of Europe - Germany - had been responsible not only for initiating a horrific and bloody war, but for carrying out the systematic murder of millions of completely innocent people. »
• « Each purge was designed to, at least in part, purge the purgers of the past, blaming them for "excesses" that had killed innocent people - this, of course, simply led to the murder of more innocents. »