Northern Alliance commanders should restrain their victorious forces from attacking defenseless civilians.

But are they ready to see a film in which Ottoman Turkish soldiers shoot defenseless civilians and burn women alive?

But the Serbs, quick to pound on defenseless civilians, might well shrink from engaging well-armed troops.

We will not back down in the face of attacks either on us or on defenseless civilians.

It became a prototype of how new media could become a powerful tool in the hands of otherwise defenseless civilians.

What would then happen to defenseless civilians, especially those opposed to the war?

The security forces have been humiliated, and now appear capable only of attacks on defenseless civilians.

It was a cowardly act and conducted against defenseless and unsuspecting civilians.

What had happened among the defenseless civilians, the soldiers could not bring themselves to think about.

He called the attack "an act of war undertaken by the Israeli army against defenseless civilians" who were trying to break through Israel's "criminal blockade."