The phrase "a swift and violent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or event that occurs quickly and with great force or intensity.
Example: "The storm brought a swift and violent change to the landscape, uprooting trees and flooding the fields."
Alternatives: "a rapid and fierce" or "a quick and brutal".
He said that when investors start to believe the end is coming for the easy monetary policies in the US, Europe and Japan then there would be a "swift and violent" reaction in the stock markets.
As Russian forces were drawing back from a swift and violent incursion into Ukraine this fall, Moscow was delivering another powerful military statement many miles to the north.
Being put down where we were, with surprise gone and the opposition alerted, and given the German capability for a swift and violent response to any threat to what really mattered, they could expect their hardest fighting and worst casualties, not in defence of the final perimeter, but in trying to get there".
In short, the brigadier says, "the US army has developed over time a singular focus on conventional warfare, of a particularly swift and violent kind".
The execution of a SEAL's duties is swift and violent when required yet guided by the principles that he serves to defend".[8].
The Tsar's army impeded the false Dmitry's advance toward Moscow; but with Boris's sudden death, resistance broke down, and the country lapsed into a period of chaos characterized by swift and violent changes of regime, civil wars, foreign intervention, and social disorder (the Time of Troubles) that did not end until after Michael Romanov, son of Fyodor Nikitich Romanov, was elected tsar in 1613.
In November Mao once more returned to Hunan; there, in January and February 1927, he investigated the peasant movement and concluded that in a very short time several hundred million peasants in China would "rise like a tornado or tempest a force so extraordinarily swift and violent that no power, however great, will be able to suppress it".
The Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, tried to answer them in a conciliatory speech, asserting that despite its swift and violent takeover of Sunni districts in Beirut earlier this month, his Iranian-backed party had no intention of imposing its rule.
Retaliation from the rightwing twittersphere was swift and violent, as Khalek documented in an exhaustive (and exhausting) post at Alternet.
If the Queen had remained alive and well, and continued to broadcast her special scent, the response to any usurper would have been swift and violent: to reproduce in the presence of a healthy queen is strictly forbidden.
When Niru's father finds it — and the notifications populating the home screen from men who want to date his son — the confrontation is swift and violent.
