There have been many genocides in history, but the most famous (or infamous) is that perpetrated by the Nazis.

A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

Any delay in arresting the assassin," I observed, "might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity."

The theft of Peruvian resources perpetrated by the Spanish was huge.

Some of the massacres the French perpetrated in Algeria reached Holocaust proportions.

What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!

And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

Let me be clear. Sexual and gender-based violence in conflict is not only a horrendous and life-changing crime, most often perpetrated against women and girls. It is also used as a tactic of war, to terrorize families, dehumanize communities and destabilize societies, so that they struggle to recover for years or even decades after the guns fall silent," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.