The phrase "a violent start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or situation that begins with aggression or forcefulness.
Example: "The movie opened with a violent start, immediately capturing the audience's attention."
Alternatives: "a brutal beginning" or "an aggressive onset".
Tony Blair's book-signing tour got off to a violent start in Dublin, where it was reported that the crowd threw not just eggs, but shoes at the budding author.
The game on Sunday had a violent start, establishing a fierce tone, and amid the constellation of superstars on both teams, the referee, Héber Lopes, somehow emerged as the center of attention.
In Ethiopia, 2016 is off to a violent start.
Meanwhile, the week has already gotten off to a violent start in Chicago.
The year got off to a violent start with 50 homicides in January and rarely let up even after the end of the summer — the peak season for shootings.
They are unlikely to see a negotiating table anytime soon either, with the new fighting season in Afghanistan off to a particularly violent start and with the latest push to restart talks all but abandoned.
Despite the violent start, voter turnout for the first day was relatively high, with Egypt's minister of administrative development claiming that 28percentt of the country's registered voters had cast their ballot that day alone.
Historical eruptions at Mauna Loa are typically Hawaiian in character and rarely violent, starting with the emergence of lava fountains over a several kilometer long rift colloquially known as the "curtain of fire" (often, but not always, propagating from Mauna Loa's summit ) and eventually concentrating at a single vent, its long-term eruptive center.
Inevitably, such coercive measures turned violent, starting with Crusader mobs crying "Convert or die!" Jews mainly resisted, and nobly so.
Police are getting violent, starting to kettle protestors outside Downing Street pic.twitter.com/xeV0EuM4lr.
Though the winter season is usually not one of the city's bloodiest, there have been some violent starts to the year.
