Mr. Peterson shrugged, familiar with such a dialogue of distrust between neighbors and police officers during his two decades of living in the housing development in the 75th Precinct, arguably the most violent in New York.
The state has long been a conduit into the United States for cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin; it is also the base of the Arellano Felix brothers' mafia, arguably the most violent Mexico has known.
Fighting broke out last week in Nagorno-Karabakh between the Azerbaijani army and the Armenian separatists who have controlled the enclave since the early 1990s, when they came out on top in what was arguably the most violent war associated with the demise of the Soviet Union – an estimated 30,000 people were killed, and a million displaced, between 1988 and 1994.
El Salvador, together with Guatemala and Honduras, is part of the so called Northern Triangle of Central America, arguably the most violent region in the world.
That doesn't exactly chime with the world we live in: one that is increasingly polarised, violent, and arguably teeming with existential despair.
On one hand there is a decidedly dark and violent (and, arguably, sometimes fun) culture dedicated to blockbusters featuring men in flak jackets invading a strip club or sword-wielding wizards who slash their way through a dragon's alimentary canal.
For years the town's political apparatus was a plaything of the local Camorra clan, which at its height was arguably the most powerful and violent syndicate within the notoriously powerful and violent Neapolitan mafia.
The attack – arguably one of the most violent acts ever committed against American Sikhs – drew a national spotlight onto the religious community that is often the victim of xenophobic harassment or attacks, many times due to the traditional beards and turbans worn by some Sikh men.
We did not find that firearm recovery reduced the incidence of violent criminal activity, arguably the goal of the initiative.
Arguably, this trading activity causes violent moves up and down in a single session that intimidates ordinary investors.
