Sentence examples for anticipated violence from inspiring English sources

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Police in the city said they had anticipated violence and adapted their crisis training in response to school attacks in the US and neighbouring Finland.

It contributes to planning thought by studying planning practice within a framework of past and anticipated violence.

Many shops, restaurants and other businesses shut down after his death was announced, as his followers prepared to mourn him and others anticipated violence by members of his right-wing and often-militant political party, the Shiv Sena.

However, I know plenty of Israelis who shy away from attending the demonstrations at Bil'in and Nil'in precisely because of the anticipated violence of both the army and the protesters.

Even more cutely, animal parts are often said to be doing their "resting" on a "bed" (of spinach, or parsley coulis, as it might be), waiting for the eater to spear them, in a kind of sexual reverie of anticipated violence, like heaving-breasted heroines leaving their window open for Count Dracula.

A Saturday story in the English daily The Guardian, was titled "12,000 Police Aim to Ensure This Is Just a Storm in a Coffee Cup," noting that "as New York waited on high alert for anticipated violence surrounding the 32nd World Economic Forum, almost every branch of Starbucks north of 40th Street boasted its own detail of four or five armed police".

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Some downtown businesses had earlier boarded up storefronts, anticipating violence.

But Dr. Woo didn't anticipate violence just using math; he also used his knowledge of London neighborhoods.

The spectator, gliding and feinting around the edges of the room with Mr. Polanski's nimble camera, anticipates violence and perhaps hopes for it to erupt.

Police officers patrolled Mumbai's streets in large numbers, anticipating violence by members of Shiv Sena should Mr. Thackeray's condition deteriorate.

Anticipating violence, hundreds of riot police officers took up positions in and around the Old City, prompting Muslims to accuse Israel of provocation.

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