perpetration

Examples of perpetrated

perpetrated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Sometimes this was acknowledged by the courts and the press, and especially as an explanation for violence perpetrated by a respectable former officer and gentleman.
A shroff in the comprador's department of the bank perpetrated a fraud.
By denying our old their rightful category we do not remedy the problems perpetrated by an ageist society, but rather help perpetuate them.
Although they were about exploration, they were not (as far as is known) perpetrated by the explorers.
A gender differentiation was also found in that boys perpetrated and experienced more same-gender than crossgender harassment, while the reverse was found for girls.
Historians rarely get to pay their debts to informants quite so fully - using science to rectify an injustice perpetrated by science.
Thefts were perpetrated by both insiders (employees of the printing houses and communal administrations) and by people from outside the distribution process.
Thus even when women initiated strikes, newspaper and official reportage focused, not on their grievances and demands, but on the brutalities perpetrated on them.
He tabulated them systematically, giving the time, the programe, and who perpetrated the usage.
First in identifying, defining, and compiling evidence of harms perpetrated in war crimes, the longitudinal methodology employed in epidemiological studies can be very useful.
With respect to the role of elaboration of the trauma on subsequent recall, issues such as who perpetrated the maltreatment assume significance.
Even within traumas perpetrated by others, the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator plays an important role.
Almost all maltreatment was perpetrated by people living in the same house as the victim.
How is this powerful influence of technology perpetrated?
Science must refuse, they argued, ' ' to lend her sanction to the absurdities and horrors perpetrated in her name.
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