How To Use Violence In A Sentence
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Revenge is a by-the-book sequel, crowbarring in all of the memorable features of the first movie, spicing them up with even more ludicrous ultra violence and adding a few new twists to the tale.
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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
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Mandela was convinced of security force "connivance", at least in the form of standing back and allowing violence that they could stop.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Violence between the two sides has been steadily escalating.
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I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. John Lennon
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The orchestrated escort and the accompanying police violence in clearing the picket reflected the involvement of city based police, the local constabulary having been cooperative with the workers.
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It also stokes the emotions, making physical violence more likely.
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“Part of an adult faith, for example, is a commitment to the inviolability of human life from its first moment, radically opposing the principle of violence, precisely in the defense of the most defenseless of human creatures,” the pope said.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
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There is a difference, too, between appeasing men of violence and seeking to limit their appeal, just as the leaders of global terror must be separated from those who could become their followers.
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For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
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Please let's change and be people with brave hearts and forget all about violence against any particular sex in this independent country.
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He is entirely unapologetic about the violence in his movies.
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Our goal is be independent, but we will never be at peace through mindless violence - the blood of those killed in riots and fires are forever on our hands.
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Therefore "energetically" don't we just offer up more emotional violence into the soup?
Time to Re-Assess How We Celebrate Presidents Day
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But more than that they imply a specific theory about the genesis of social violence.
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Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
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Pressure has been mounting for greater Western involvement to end violence and a humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.
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If this age is to survive, it must follow the way of love and non-violence that he so nobly illustrated in his life.
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The soldiers' presence seemed to keep a lid on the violence.
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U.K. and other foreign troops, and by other Iraqis in sectarian violence, Peter Bagnall, who analyzed the documents for Iraq Body Count, said in an interview.
Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths
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Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media.
The Feel Good Presidency
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Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others.
Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
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A reputation for tolerance and civil liberties had been replaced by violence and repression.
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This course focuses on the theory and practice of violence and nonviolence from a gender and feminist perspective, and deals with social conflicts at interpersonal, intergroup, and intersocietal levels.
Short courses in gender and peacebuilding (University for Peace)
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The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
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The film is a reflection of the violence that pervades American culture.
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The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
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That history was one of poverty and violence, of battered women and abandoned children.
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Just 15 percent of shows containing violence carried an advisory or content code at the beginning of the program.
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They admitted that they gave false evidence, but said that they were under duress, having been threatened with violence by various men, one of whom was in the public gallery at the original trial.
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The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
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You very quickly realise the power and violence of the fluid movements in which you are suspended.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
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It seems like some critics who at one moment will adulate a neo-realistic picture for its unwavering depiction of an emotional truth will the next second decry a film for depicting violence in a graphic/real way.
Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me | /Film
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The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it.
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Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
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Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement.
THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
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If chimps and humans are both violent, they are likely to share a genetic legacy for violence with this ancestor.
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It predates the peaceful non-violence of Martin Luther King.
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Their sordid complots are destined to explode into an orgy of violence.
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Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The purpose of the arrests is to cause gangs to police themselves -- if every murder results in a torrent of arrests, gang leaders are more likely to discourage the use of violence to resolve personal disputes.
Chicago Gang Violence: Police Chief Jody Weis Follows Through On Controversial Strategy
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Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action.
Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)
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Clyde must have mistaken violent outbursts to mean outbursts of violence rather than intense, brief tantrums.
DO NO HARM
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Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
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And where does she get a witness at one or two in the morning when violence is most likely to occur?
Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
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He cited a host of causes, from media violence to absent parents to drugs.
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A football match gives no excuse for wanton violence.
The Sun
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They were often subjected to violence and had their homes used as stash houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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An advertising campaign has been launched to raise awareness of domestic violence in teenage relationships.
How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
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Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist.
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
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Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.
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The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It had to demonstrate that it operated to the very highest standards in its training of management of aggression and violence.
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The police are hoping that the violence will soon subside.
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Six of her family are in police safe houses and cops plan to fly out there to see what she knows about the terrifying violence.
The Sun
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The trouble then spreads to town centre takeaways with incidents of criminal damage and violence.
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Inevitably, you must wonder whether barbarism is the natural condition of man let loose, or the depraved state of man when corrupted by violence.
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And so all Israel shall be saved -- To understand this great statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief, is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
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Their job was to secure public order through terror, intimidation and violence.
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But the supposed need for an early revolution did persuade many to accept violence as a temporary necessity.
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Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The violence, the conflict, the clashes have become worse and worse.
The Sun
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Opposition groups fear violence, after weeks of military muscle-flexing from the government.
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Not all of the violence in Miami was spillover from the trial.
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The film had an extraordinary amount of violence.
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Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
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Violence, abusive behaviour and stealing from the family home are unacceptable.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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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
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By contrast, 1 percent of Channel 4 programmes contained violence, with an average frequency of one violent act per hour.
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Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.
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She was found guilty of affray and of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear and violence.
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It's a rare occurrence but, more than any other game in the series, God of War 3 has a sense of suffering in its toysome violence.
IGN PS3
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He was untamable and completely unpredictable, as though he was driven by an interior violence out of his control.
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The original had a thin premise and an anorexic plot, but delivered brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and downplayed gun violence.
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The violence of the past-specifically, the dreaded practice of necklacing, which mingled the smell of rubber with the ‘sickly stench of roasting human flesh’ has been eliminated.
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The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Communal violence broke out in different parts of the country.
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During the war communities in Unita-controlled areas had been subjected to violence, bush justice and plundering, an Institute of Security Studies (ISS) report says.
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Contrary to the sense of chaos and violence offered in unsourced Twitter feeds, Iranian protests have been largely peaceful
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They are very much less likely than their fathers to have suffered from police harassment and violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Putting more police on patrol doesn't provide a real solution to the problem of increasing violence.
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And the scene in which violence erupts is powerful without offering easy catharsis.
Times, Sunday Times
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They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.
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The Group of Eight, the club of the world's richest economies, issued a statement during a meeting of foreign ministers in Trieste, Italy, saying it "deplored" the post-election violence.
Tehran Hard-Liners Seek to Show Their Dominance
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What he did was wrong, but ok, its over, let them move on. rihanna is constantly saying how she wants to be a role model for these girls, buttruth is that if the get out of the situation of domestic violence, theyll sink right back in. she dresses half naked (her white bandaged body @ the award show) and she has gun tatoos and has guns in her her music videos. so shes promoting fire arm then. shes tryign to make him look like a monster, he is just a man. she played her part in the situation, and i just think its time people stop talkin about this. theres no progress in regressing!
ABC Yanks Chris Brown “Good Morning America” Performance
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi
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Amazingly though, their words and thoughts usually lead to yet more dissension, anger and violence.
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We are more often than not the victims of rape, violence, threats and intimidation.
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That would be to condone incitement to violence.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
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Well, under the new rule presumably he's inciting the people to violence.
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The history of the early years following the cession is a sad record of violence and general lawlessness among the white inhabitants, and of deplorable Indian troubles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Sometimes the only way to break the cycle of violence in the home is for the wife to leave.
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The lawyer claimed his client was provoked into acts of violence by the defendant.
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The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
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He also says the connection between drugs and violence helps his case.
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At first, my goal had been to write out a precise 'demonology' of television using elements from Greek mythology as a teaching tool for my Media Violence class that could be developed into a workbook of sorts.
Vamsee Juluri: Writing Mythology in an Age of Reality Crisis
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Love, danger, drugs, family, violence and tenderness power the drama.
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Even Western governments are still utterly incapable of properly distinguishing true incitation to violence and hate from ethnic pride, mild but nonviolent rebellion, and counterculture.
Kicking them out « BuzzMachine
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So that it was not as if she was trying to escape from an immediate threat of violence to her.
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He admitted that some people had left the city some time back apprehending communal violence, but there is no such fear now.
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Show gratuitous violence is unacceptable.
The Sun
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Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
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I hope you will consider the use and practice of non-violence in a more creative and positive way, rather than dismiss it as mere idealism.
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Two more men were summoned and all used violence to force him into uniform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police say drugs traffickers are behind the resurgence of violence.
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Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Hamas is a terrorist organization that refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel.
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But his flashy lifestyle and taste for violence have made him the most feared -- and the most celebrated.
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This is the only humane approach to those fleeing violence, poverty and oppression.
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Sex and violence become rites of passage and initiation which, like the new religious practices, produce a historicity of dissidence and dissent.
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Then again, women and children have been the targets of violence for eons.
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Their doctrine allows the use of violence.
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as its producers predicted Chinese authorities would object to its violence but declined to edit out the more brutal scenes.
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In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly.
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She has strong feelings about the alleged growth in violence against female officers.
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The merest hint of effeminacy is treated as treachery to masculinity, and traitors are subjected to the kinds of violence suffered by women.
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Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion.
Caravaggio
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This demolition is not simply mindless cultural violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of an honourable retirement, Louis was swallowed up by the sharks circling the boxing business, and gradually pulled into the netherworld of drugs, drink, violence and the mob.
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If anything, this act of violence has redoubled our efforts to make this community stronger.
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the film contained no sex or violence
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Charle though has decided to call it a day, the endless violence and bloodshed has become too much.
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Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
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The other violence he recalls was town versus gown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The navicular (scaphoid) and lunate (semilunar) are those most commonly fractured, usually by indirect violence, by forced dorsiflexion from a fall on the extended hand.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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The election was marred by violence following a clash between demonstrators and police officers.
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And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
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He will be shown gratuitous sex and graphic violence, hidden behind innuendo and called a romantic comedy.
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They spoke of incidents of violence, which included a disabled woman twice narrowly escaping injury from a youth firing an air rifle and a pensioner's pet dog being shot dead.
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Thus we get images of dollar bills followed by cheering crowds, or scenes of violence matched with screenshots of video games.
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Could we stop dignifying its vengeance and violence as ‘rulings’?
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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The regime was fatally weakened by the unrest and violence.
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The worst of the looting was over, and there was enough calm in the shattered streets for her to feel the popular elation, despite the fear and violence that lay below the surface.
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He was charged with making inflammatory speeches and inciting people to violence.
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Since his ouster violence has escalated in the capital.
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Against this background, an unprecedented number of acts of violence broke out along the cease-fire line beginning on 5 August 1965.
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It's not inciting you to violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
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The genuine protestors were joined by outside agitators, intent on encouraging violence.
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The violence is not gratuitous, and it is hard to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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This legend of the fall has often been cited as the main reference for violence against women, either physically or mentally.
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The language, the violence, the unapologetic maleness of gangland bonding mixes the excesses of laddish culture with an affectionate tribute to Kray Brothers brutalism.
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It is too early to tell if such aggressive measures will mute the violence or stoke it.
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Within that, one of the biggest challenges we face is changing the attitudes that condone violence against women.
The Sun
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I do not condone violence but no wonder our students are protesting.
The Sun
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The crisis ends with the victimisation of the guilty scapegoat through collective violence.
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Park's naturalistic depiction of brutal violence and sadistic torture often make for uncomfortable viewing.
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The violence was clearly prompted by political motives.
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There's a satire in here but it's hidden under layers of misogyny and vapid violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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War is the most acute form of expression of violence.
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School violence is being assimilated into the broader sense of fatalism and passivity about the perpetration of violence in our nation and in our world.
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Violence and jail receive strong censure.
Christianity Today
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There is a growing recognition of the debilitating effects of teen drug use, teen pregnancy and violence.
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Face à l'échec patent d'une politique fondée sur l'exclusion, la violence, la corruption et le mensonge, Joseph trouve vite des boucs émissaires: Mobutu, les mobutistes et la mentalité mobutiste.
Global Voices in English » D.R. of Congo: Furor Over Kabila’s New York Times Interview
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I would like to point out that even if more unmarried men lead to intrasocial instability, whether this will lead to intersocial violence is not clear.
China's Future: A Clockwork Orange?
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Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
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In the first episode a shocking, random act of violence sees a young woman knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack by a stranger.
The Sun
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Ferris's essay, since the "failure" he notes here seems to be the opposite of the aesthetic's "failure" to conceal its violence that he was discussing earlier: here the law cannot come to representation, whereas earlier, the violence of the aesthetic had to come to representation (or more precisely, to recognition; but even the recognition of a non-representation demands a certain manifestation of this non-representability).
Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism
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He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled.
The Red Queen
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The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, took a tough line, saying that he would not tolerate wanton destruction and violence.
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Growing disorder, eruptions of violence and decades of insecurity have accompanied each rebirth of capitalism in the past.
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Kristoff is speaking conspiratorially, as if sharing a deep and disturbing secret, although it is well-known to anyone who has been following the emo-violence story that gay rights groups have called for tolerance.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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This concern was also used as a justification for focusing the remit of the board on victims of crimes of violence.
Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process
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There is also the risk of liver tumors, kidney damage, strokes, heart disease, and a change in personality that can lead to violence and suicidal tendencies.
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KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul.
U.N. report links spike in Afghan civilian casualties to insurgent attacks
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The core of the diary is an account of violence and death and regret.
Times, Sunday Times
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The media can contribute significantly by taking a responsible and impartial stance on conflicts and violence.
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I don't condone violence in any shape or form.
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Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence.
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Government indifference and racist violence did not break the movement - in fact it radicalised it.
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He/she who needs to resort to violence to prove a point, has a poor argument.
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Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity?
Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
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This spectrum of ‘legitimized’ violence continues through the acts of the eco-terrorists and animal liberationists to widespread rudeness, crudeness and incivility.
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The violence against peaceful demonstrators by police was downplayed, while violence against police was played up.
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The real demonstrators were as revolted as anyone by the senseless violence.
The Sun
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Another road is to wait until someone else has produced wealth, and then to seize it by force and violence.
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Sometimes the only way to break the cycle of violence in the home is for the wife to leave.
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Under current media regulations, all foreign journalists need to be accredited by the government before entering the violence-wracked country.
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The statement said there would be no end to the violence until the terrorists' demands were met.
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It would unleash bloodshed, sectarian violence and regional instability - the very things that the invasion and occupation themselves have produced.
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Is speech that advocates violence at the center of the First Amendment, or at its periphery?
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The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
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Violence is conservatively estimated to cost $ 15. 5 billion a year in medical care nationwide.
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There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues.
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Through his narrative of the illumination, Rousseau mythologized the violence of breaking this mold as the liberation of self through the experience of accident.
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He flared his nostrils, threatened anyone who decided to continue the Patience / Horse argument with violence.
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Police are out in force to prevent a recurrence of the violence.
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In the lift I took to go home yesterday, someone had attached a sheet of paper which said ‘Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship’.
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Among the violence, there are also moments of empathy and humanity, which shine out like a beacon.
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The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
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Viviana has been shocked by her country's bankruptcy, devaluation, rocketing inflation and unemployment, all combined with a bout of rioting, looting and street violence.
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Have you ever thought how great it would be if someone took the ickiest aspects of monogamous lifestyle BDSM, blended it with a double measure of religious-right patriarchy, then added a generous sprinkling of disturbing domestic violence?
Happy Slapping
