How To Use Victim In A Sentence

A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times

The center provides counseling service to victims who have been raped.
Sharp may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing.
Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.
Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
Once the victim's mind had "snapped" into cult mode, the unsnapping requires a massive assault on the victim's mind to untangle the coded messages injected into it by the sinister forces of the cult leader. Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
No matter how many police raids are conducted, if we cannot guarantee their protection young victims will remain too terrified to testify against their traffickers. Times, Sunday Times
Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease.
Two victims die in the first scene, an effective evocation of place, character and a whole range of powerful emotions. Times, Sunday Times
wherefores," his "how do you knows" and "how do you proves," that I quite trembled for the victim. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
KATIE HALL, VICTIM OF PHILLIP GARRIDO: Phillip went out to answer the door. CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009
We're all victims of the same policy to dispossess us, " says Muhammad Korshan, a West Bank Bedou activist.
Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair.
The *victim* of the defacement is the person who is intended to be fearful. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Shmulevich Case — Facts and New York Law, as I Can Best Figure Them Out:
Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
He skewered his victim through the neck.
Though it crush its victims to the earth; and tread them into the dust; and brutify them by every possible invention; it cannot totally extinguish the spirit of manhood within them. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
They've set up a fund for victims of the earthquake.
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The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.
An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor.
One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
Another injury victim, Andy Heald, sees a specialist this week over his sciatica, but former skipper Davey Luker is unlikely to feature again this season due to work commitments.
The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level. Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
Lawyers acting for the victims - including the parents of twins who suffered kidney failure - are claiming damages for injury and consequential loss. The Sun
The victim was unable to give many details about her assailant because the attack was over in seconds.
The last forty pages of the publication are dedicated to the numerous journalists who have fallen the victims of repression around the world.
The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
Both have maintained they have been hard-done by and both have stirred up a public furore over whether they are the victims of the justice system.
The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves. It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
Bronze plaques line the edges of the pools and name the near 3,000 victims. The Sun
You might say that we've been victims of circumstance.
One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims.
Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
I'm the sole victim of Mother's tyranny.
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
The government says it is opposed to paying ransom, but cannot prevent families of victims from making their own arrangements.
If the real victims of drugs are the people who get their houses burgled by addicts desperate for the money for a fix, maybe we should legalise drugs, she suggests.
It does mean, though, that interviewers need to be sensitive to the dangers to which victims may be exposed as a direct result of the interviewer's presence.
Elsewhere, residents complained the country's leaders were slow to help cyclone victims. The Sun
The gloves are critical because they were smeared with blood consistent with DNA from both victims and O. J. Simpson.
An arson attack victim has spoken of her fear after finding that firebugs had set fire to her front door.
He resembles the description of a man seen getting out of the victim's car.
People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than being victim to this silly debate, we should move forward and embrace this interesting and fun addition to sex.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
Failing that, and still believing that you are a victim in this whole lash-up, I am going to contact a federal agent who has exposed a number of phonies Peter Sumaruck II
He was the victim of an administrative error.
It is a disturbing, dark tale and perhaps one the victims might have been better left to recover from in peace. Times, Sunday Times
If an automated external defibrillator is available, people assisting a cardiac-arrest patient should attach the device to the victim and follow its instructions. Study Backs Simpler CPR for Patients
The minor 'phobias, such as pyrophobia, or fear of fire; stasophobia, or inability to arise and walk, the victims spending all their time in bed; toxicophobia or fear of poison, etc., will be left to the reader's inspection in special works on this subject. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The victim had been strangled with a belt.
POLICE are to get tough new powers to protect stalking victims. The Sun
Most of the victims had dwelt in the crowded slums that had grown up around the factory on the outskirts of the city. Times, Sunday Times
He believed he was ‘untouchable’ but his victims finally became sick of the yob and helped a specialist council unit to boot him out of their neighbourhood.
Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
Voyeurism should never be mistaken for reality, because the reality of those horrors is only truly experienced by those living through them -- either the victims or those piecing together their "story" for the judicial system. When Reality Intrudes
Within hours, realising that he may have gone too far, the victim handed himself in.
Beneficiaries often have to submit to small scale victimisation and invasions of their privacy if they are to keep their benefit.
A spokesman said the two victims had died in hospital and added that a massive manhunt was under way. The Sun
In New York, families of fire-fighters and other victims argue over how vast compensation packages are parcelled out.
The notion of addicts as passive victims of their addiction is a gross simplification. Times, Sunday Times
More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.
The eavesdropping charges arose from his use of keylogging software to spy on victims' net activities in 2000.
They say reporting suspected illegals over the Web will result in people being mistakenly fingered, or let people with a grudge turn in innocent victims.
Flood victims were furious today after planners called for a £1 million defence scheme at Stamford Bridge to be put on hold.
The apology must be delayed long enough to recognise the hurt felt by the offended victim - but proffered before there is lasting harm.
He was convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of the alleged victim.
You could potentially become a victim to horrible eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
Preyed upon by hawks, foxes, and weasels, they may also fall victim to domestic cats.
Its victims turn out to be not its depositors but first-time homebuyers three years after the collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Ordinary Māori, many of whom were victimized by the police raids, descended upon Parliament today in a hikoi mass march, and beg to differ. Archive 2007-11-01
There are many agencies that help victims of crime at various stages. Times, Sunday Times
The victim suffered severe cuts to the upper lip, lower lip, the chin and into his neck.
Conservative high command is the victim of wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
The fat boy was victimized by his classmates.
The government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.
The drug ribavirin, which is given to Lassa victims, was given to the fifth Lujo virus patient CBS 11 / TXA 21 - Dallas / Fort Worth's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports
The cut in benefits for the unemployed is a classic case of blaming the victim.
She used to be able to dance and her moneymaker is falling victim to gravity.
The victim then approaches the youth and throws a fierce right-hand jab, punching him on the chin and knocking him unconscious. Times, Sunday Times
Victims of the crash will be compensated for their injuries.
They were at the scene for 90 minutes, helping to free the victims and clear the road.
The Garda witness said the victim was quite inebriated when he saw her later and she had to be helped into a Garda car.
Victims also alleged that members of hospital staff were complicit in the abuse. Times, Sunday Times
It is not only the bank robbers who treat the victims badly.
Two victims will need surgery to remove pellets. The Sun
In many cases, life insurance payouts will run into millions as many victims were top-financial sector workers.
The victim suffered severe brain damage.
The court affidavit describes in hard-core detail how the other victim remembers drifting in and out of consciousness as Warren sexually assaulted her.
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police believe the man conned his way into the 41-year-old victim's house by offering to do building work.
The report slammed police for also ignoring victims who sought help. The Sun
The bulk of the victims appear to be ordinary people who happen to have strayed across the media's radar.
Two of them appeared to be the victims of foul play. Times, Sunday Times
He is undertaking the walk in order to raise money for victims of the tsunami disaster and underprivileged people in the local community.
The constant need for money to buy drugs and increase business also motivates dealers to find vulnerable victims who can provide quick cash.
The principal explanation lies in the obscene moral inversion of victim culture.
Choosing victims heavily laden with carrier bags, he would throw a few coins on the floor and then tell them that they had dropped their money.
Mr Ruto questioned why some people did not want the harambee to take place yet similar fundraisers had been held for Sachang'wan, Nakumatt and Faza Island fire victims. AllAfrica News: Latest
Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who is recruited for the Department of Military Science (DMS) to fight a new threat: a bio-terrorism agent that affects its victims in a way that makes them resemble zombies. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » April
Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
The Doctor's harrowing account of the orthopaedic centres for polio and landmine victims was punctuated with the earthy humour of the people he deals with.
Seven men were involved in the beating, which left one of the victims with head gashes.
Over and over, the new American jingoes depict the U.S. as somehow a victim in the international economy.
The fraudsters do not have to intend to defraud the victim as the primary purpose of the exercise.
Witnesses saw the victim chatting to a group of men and asking them for cigarette papers shortly before the accident.
The civil law deems that the victim did not intend.
The creeps are more likely to hang around waiting for unsuspecting victims in touristy zones like the Zona Rosa, so beware. Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
Although the idea of expiation was not excluded (Lev., i, 4), it retired somewhat into the background, since in the complete destruction of the victim by fire the absolute submission of man to God was to find expression. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The fund was instrumental in obtaining a pardon from the families of the victims in Benghazi, and for the annulation of the death sentence and later for the medics 'release," Pierini said Monday. ANC Daily News Briefing
Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.
In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.
In cases of apparent copycat crime, victims' families sometimes have sued movie or record companies on the theory that they are responsible for the crimes their products inspired.
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. Malcolm X
The harpy, whose name was derived from the Greek word arpazo, ‘to seize’, was a monstrous female demon of insatiable hunger, known as temptress, seductress and tormenter of victims.
In a second letter he tells how he struggled to avoid being drawn in by the ship 's propeller, as some victims were. The Sun
Elise and Sawyer say they have been the most frequent victims of harassment both on and off campus.
Hence, for instance, the new act of parliament that protects people from victimisation if they split on their bosses.
All proceeds go to charities helping quake victims. The Sun
Worshippers of Siva who are victim to anger or hatred refrain from meditation, japa, and kundalini yoga.
In fact, the church will be in collusion with evil if it does not stand on the side of the victim.
From this verbal prestidigitator, we imbibe the lesson that both storyteller and con man make us willing victims. A Small-Town Sorcerer Casts His Spell
They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter. Broken Lives
In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
The fast-acting toxin can be sprayed into a victim's face or dripped into food or water. The Sun
The road was partly closed for about four hours as police and 100 firefighters helped the victims. Times, Sunday Times
Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial.
He has become a victim of the 'gradual', the relativistic slippage of time between the islands. The Times Literary Supplement
Still, Samsung supporters contend the company is actually the victim of bureaucratic excesses in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its counterparts in Europe and Australia.
We are more often than not the victims of rape, violence, threats and intimidation.
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
Embarrassing yourself in public does not come under the category of self-victimisation. 12.
The potential victims of this autocracy were not only liberal democratic values, but also effective government.
The Association said that Dr. Nighat Shaheen and Dr. Bilal were part of first and second team to give gynae opinion and examined the bodies of victims at Shopian. Justice Jan Commission recommendations shall be strictly implemented: Govt Spokesman
If Mann appeared to be targeting another victim en route, the German police would do what was necessary. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The impunity of police and denial of due process to victims is disturbing to rights activists.
Dennis M. Sabangan/European Pressphoto Agency Filipino children offered candles for flood victims on Tuesday during a mass burial in a village that was devastated by rampaging flood waters in Iligan City, southern Mindanao, the Philippines. Asia in Pictures
The victim managed to retrieve her jacket and ran out the door leaving her sweater, mitts, hat and scarf inside.
In The Victim, the Jewish son of an anti-gentile and ghetto-mentality storekeeper is being given a hard time by an insecure and alcoholic WASP. The Great Assimilator
Avenging something or someone implies that you have been a victim of outrages and vengeance is required. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
It should be stated further that in the case of "seppuku," as soon as the act of cutting the abdomen had been completed, always by a single rapid stroke, someone from behind would, with a single blow, behead the victim. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
She believes she is the victim of a smear campaign by former inmates of residential institutions.
Thieves have recently targeted unsuspecting victims by showing them a map and asking for directions.
They were the victims of a cruel hoax.
The program runs a helpline for victims of homophobic abuse.
He felt the students had been victimized because they'd voiced opposition to the government.
Congress has agreed an $11 million relief package for victims of the hurricane.
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
the snake moved gradually toward its victim
This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim.
The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.
In November, Salisbury, a chivalric figure, was killed, the victim of a cannonball.
Relatives of victims of Bradford's worst industrial disaster came together to unveil a memorial stone 120 years on.
Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
Victims of lathyrism, "crawlers", are numerous among the poor in Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal where the affliction remains a present threat. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins. Inflation and War Finance
All those wounded were innocent victims.
We will hear the old arguments about "repugnance" and the rest of us may again be potential victims of this socially destructive, anti-science, proto-fascist attitude that is certainly more dangerous to the public than any cluster of cells in a Petri dish. Dan Agin: Stem Cells Redux: There Will Be Blood
But the banks are not entirely blameless victims in such crime. Times, Sunday Times
He politely insists that his unsuspecting victim, whom he has spied on the stairs of their apartment block, share a drink with him. Times, Sunday Times
An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor.
The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
Will the hot tub be the next victim of the 'ick-factor' attack? Times, Sunday Times
WASHINGTON -- A Republican state legislator in Georgia doesn't like the term rape "victim. Georgia State Lawmaker Seeks To Redefine Rape Victims As 'Accusers'
They were victims of morbific agents encountered at work.
To the ACLU's secular Jewish policy-makers, Christianity is a tool of majority opression of "victimized minorities" which has to be warred on along with other high agenda bugaboos like firearms ownership, bigots who won't let courts impose gay marriage, and "heteronormative" institutions like the Boy Scouts. Protesting minarets.
The case covers dates from around 1988 up to the summer of last year and involves six alleged victims.
But there is a risk of giving far more coverage to former criminals than to the victims of Italy's mafia clans. Times, Sunday Times
The victims are also understood to have left a note saying that they had used cyanide. Times, Sunday Times
The alleged victim, Johnny Jean, and his mother, Rose Marie Jean, told Haitian radio stations he had been raped by Uruguayan marines and provided testimony to a judge in the southern town of Port-Salut, where the incident allegedly took place on July 28. Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by U.N. peacekeepers
The victim of the motorcycle theft can be heard cursing the robber as he lies bleeding in the road by the ditched bike. Times, Sunday Times
A murder victim is not a stage-prop in the drama of his death but an active participant.
Send ground troops to enforce - not just oversee - a peace? Create safe havens for the victims of war?
He acted with some sympathy towards his victim.
I also thought it implied judgment on those who didn't survive or left them out--though the term victim is certainly loaded to. The Terry Fox run/walk/wheel: I AM a survivor
They're innocent victims who've unwittingly exposed themselves, whew, sorted.
It has emerged victims and their families may be due tens of millions of pounds in compensation. The Sun
In the solemn atmosphere of the memorial ceremony, many victims' relatives were unable to contain their emotions as they remembered their loved ones.
He is still a little straitened, a little pestered by the doubting and critical optics which our time turns upon man, a little victimized by his knowledge of limitary conditions and secondary laws. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
Occasionally, a Staff Pro guard is simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In the future, drugs that mimic the effects of the gene could help burns and trauma victims. Times, Sunday Times
Forgiveness can never be demanded of victims and certainly not in the absence of admissions of wrongdoing.
Accordingly, Wilson refused to take on any “mandate,” such as the Armenian territories of Turkey that had been victim of widespread massacres, or embark on an invasion of Russia to assist the anti-Bolshevik forces that were battling communist troops there. Shaping the World at Versailles: A Q&A With the Author of A Shattered Peace - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, leave victims deformed, hamper productivity and normal social interaction, Chan said. 1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
The negligent defendant, or more usually his insurer, takes his victim as he finds him.

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