Reprehensible!

The deliberate killing of Palestinians was particularly reprehensible.

Only the most reprehensible acts should be criminal offences.

Unethical, reprehensible but very practical. I beg your pardon?

What may be more reprehensible, if climate denial continues, is extermination of species.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

The act though reprehensible thus comes within the framework of the normal operation of the enterprise.

It is morally reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.

When the media receive and accept specific instructions on how to cover the campaign, this becomes even more reprehensible.

The increase in acts of hatred and incitement against Jewish communities, individuals and places of worship was reprehensible and unjustifiable.

It welcomes a positive planned step by a Member, while not ignoring that Member's reprehensible actions in the same regard.

The conduct of the Attorney General and of the Federal Government of Nigeria in disobeying the Court Orders is reprehensible.

51. Apart from reprehensible incidents of anti Semitism, the situation of the Jewish community with regard to religion is satisfactory.

Article 2 of the Act adapts this general principle to the punishment system by distinguishing four categories of perpetrators of reprehensible acts.

A dominant position is not reprehensible in itself only abuses resulting from such domination are prohibited under article 8 of the Act.

As stated in the government s explanatory report to the Parliament, the amendment reflects the especially serious and reprehensible nature of these acts.

This situation is even more reprehensible in view of the fact that, to date, approximately ten police officers have been killed in 1998.

Mladić was engaged in ethnic cleansing, which, though reprehensible, is not the same as genocide. Loose definitions will encourage more military interventions, thus more wars.

Not only do such activities exert a pernicious influence on the sound growth of China's children, they also challenge the Government's efforts to stamp out such reprehensible behaviour.

Sexual abuse is not invariably traumatic in the sense of being overwhelmingly terrifying. Of course, it is always morally reprehensible, even when it fails to produce lasting psychiatric symptoms.

These include the most reprehensible attacks against civilians, such as murder, torture, forced displacement of persons, various forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, detention, looting and destruction of villages and property.

Such practices have hindered investigation and clarification of the facts and obstructed the determination of responsibility and the prosecution and punishment of all those who may be involved in these reprehensible crimes.

The Secretary General notes that the use of sanctions to target belligerents, in particular the individuals most directly responsible for reprehensible policies, will continue to be a vital tool in the United Nations arsenal.

In other cases, however, while the crimes of individuals acting on their own behalf were clearly reprehensible, the activities in question could not be imputed to States or regarded as violations of international law .

Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago. Our failure to alleviate their plight is morally reprehensible.

If we recall what happened in the autumn of 2001, after the reprehensible attacks on the towers in New York, the suspicious dissemination of anthrax reflected know how and mechanisms to spread it and cause harm.

The use of financial, diplomatic, arms, aviation, travel and commodity sanctions to target belligerents, in particular the individuals most directly responsible for reprehensible policies, will continue to be a vital tool in the United Nations arsenal.

In their search for a morally reprehensible efficiency , they may resort to hiring explosives experts or experts in the technical planning of terrorist attacks who, in return for considerable sums of money, agree to become mercenaries.

134. The illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, otherwise referred to as the smuggling of aliens, constitutes a reckless exploitation of people in distress, and thus is a particularly reprehensible form of international organized crime.

52. Since 1974 the Commission on Human Rights has developed a set of mechanisms to investigate human rights violations, either in a particular country or when they constitute a particularly reprehensible or perverse violation of human dignity.

Under the Act, practices that restrict competition are all individual forms of behaviour by economic agents falling under criminal and or civil law which are reprehensible in themselves, independently of any collusion or their impact on the market.

Opponents of capital punishment frequently proclaim that the state has no moral right to take anyone s life, including that of the most reprehensible murderer. Yet that is absolutely the wrong conclusion for anyone who believes that capital punishment deters.

While no leniency should be shown for crimes perpetrated on innocent children, we need to see in perspective the fact that many children responsible for reprehensible crimes have often been manipulated by unscrupulous adults to take part in armed conflicts.

As in the case of the Madrid train bombings and the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway network, innocent lives were taken by the targeting of mass transit systems for terror attacks, which is surely the most reprehensible act imaginable.

128. Persons who have infiltrated from neighbouring States, particularly Zaire, have committed reprehensible acts, such as sabotage and murders in prefectures located in western Rwanda, as well as mine laying, which makes it dangerous to move about in some places.

It is most reprehensible that certain States should establish legislation which protect the goods or property of certain national companies and give them total impunity for any violations they commit of the economic, social and cultural rights of citizens or private economic groupings.

Although sending Palestinian suicide bombers to stage attacks in Israel was deplorable and reprehensible, Israel's response (detaining 6,000 Palestinians, resorting to summary executions, demolishing homes, imposing curfews, and setting up checkpoints) had been such that poverty was affecting 60 per cent of the Palestinian population.

Its provisions do contain measures which are a step forward towards the eradication of this reprehensible activity, but it should be noted that article 1, paragraph 1, almost literally repeats the text of article 47 of Additional Protocol I on the definition of a mercenary.

22. As reprehensible as they are as violations of the individual victims right to life, such killings are most notable because of their apparent intent to violate, by means of terror, the freedoms of opinion and expression of particular groups or the population as a whole.

The only appropriate response is the one chosen by the US Embassy in Cairo, which denounced the film and said that the American government condemns those who offend others religious beliefs. And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reinforced the condemnation when she called the film disgusting and reprehensible.

Through innocuous sounding government supervision and regulation and under the guidance of the major international financial institutions ruling elites managed to run entire sectors of the economy as personal fiefdoms. While this pattern of official behavior is reprehensible, the real disaster is that it destroyed Arabs economic productivity and initiative.

In that regard, the report's perspective on Article 51 represents a dangerous reinterpretation of that Article one that would give it sufficient flexibility to allow wars and preventive attacks, which, despite the fact that such wars and attacks are unleashed by the global super Power, are nonetheless illegal and reprehensible.

The Security Council stresses the importance of bringing the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of violence to justice, and urges all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), to cooperate actively with the Indian authorities in this regard.

The Security Council stresses the importance of bringing the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of violence to justice, and urges all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), to cooperate actively with the Indian authorities in this regard.