Sentences with phrase «employed as a weapon of war»
In February 2013, the assistant U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Erika Feller, cautioned that the conflict in Syria is «increasingly marked by rape and sexual violence employed as a weapon of war to intimidate parties to the conflict destroying identity, dignity and the social fabrics of families and communities.»
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If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.