Sentence examples for a function of violence from inspiring English sources

Particularly insidious is that the Mafia's success is not just a function of violence; "it is based above all on money and kind words".

The function of violence in this world, I believe, is to attempt to put people "in their places".

"Coke's influence over his New York-based narcotics trafficking co-conspirators, from his base in Kingston, was fundamentally a function of his soldiers' involvement and reputation for violence and the fact that many family members of these US-based traffickers had stayed behind in Jamaica and were, therefore, vulnerable to threats and intimidation".

Hickenlooper told CNN that the shooting and similar acts of mass violence might be a function of the "inflammatory rhetoric we see on all levels".

This image may be a function of the perception of the community about violence as culturally tolerated within a family – but publicly unaccepted – and to be kept hidden.

Both Steinberg and Jensen make the case that the violence hump, too, is a function of weak frontal lobes and oversensitive pleasure centers.

People were beginning to lose hope, seeing violence as genetic, or as a function of poverty.

However, violence could also be interpreted as a function of underlying psychological difficulties.

This differential outcome may be a function of vicarious learning such that witnessing high levels of community violence models aggressive and externalizing behaviors (Cooley-Quille et al. 1995).

This suggested that violence might, to a critical extent, be a function of the conditions of incarceration.

In most of these studies, what researchers measured was the likelihood that violence would be directed toward a woman as a function of the sexy dress she wore.