Sentence examples for battle violence from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless I wonder about the damage caused by our use of battle, violence and war metaphors to describe political processes.

PAGE A17 national CRACKING DOWN ON GUN SMUGGLING To Battle Violence in Mexico The increase of guns flowing into Mexico from the United States, which is fueling some of the worst drug violence there in years, can only be stopped by cracking down on smugglers the way federal authorities hobbled the Mafia, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.

In honor of courageous women who battle violence in their homes and relationships, and those who fight breast cancer, this blog celebrates Warrior Women past and present.

Much of Bindel's career has involved battling violence against women – she founded the campaigning group Justice for Women with her civil partner, the lawyer Harriet Wistrich, in 1990.

Gabe's final summer in his hometown is crammed with highs and lows as he balances success on the local radio station and dating with battling violence and prejudice and a forcible outing.

The "Magic Mike XXL" actress, who revealed that she was awarded $7 million in the agreement earlier this month, announced that she would donate that money to the American Civil Liberties Union, with a focus on battling violence against women, and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, where she has volunteered for 10 years.

"It was three steps backward in the battle against violence against women".

The students and recent graduates of Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of a mass shooting in February that left 17 people dead and created a renewed effort to battle gun violence, said they don't want a repeal of the Second Amendment or to banish guns.

But speaking to people working on the frontline of the battle against violence against women in Brazil last month, it is evident that despite the legislative push to tackle the problem, more needs to be done at a grassroots level to change embedded social norms.

The act carried great symbolic weight because the Central Cemetery is home to a long list of martyrs in the country's long battle against violence, like Luís Carlos Galán, a beloved presidential candidate slain in 1989 during the last bombing campaign Colombia withstood.

As organisations like Amnesty International and the UN's World Health Organisation have shown through their research, sex workers worldwide battle systemic violence and health risk, not because of what we do but because it's stigmatised and against the law.