Sentence examples for became less violent from inspiring English sources

Even as the Soviet Union became less violent, in the years following Stalin's death in 1953, it remained dishonest and intolerant, insisting on a facade of unity.

"In fact, when I took the course, I found I became less violent with my own children".

"Tariq became a good listener, he stopped wetting his bed and became less violent with his friends and sisters", said Hiba, clearly proud of the changes in her son.

She says that inmates have been found to become less violent after watching a show.

As the sport becomes less violent, naturally there will be strategic implications.

Despite our economic woes, our society is continuing to become less violent and crime-stricken.

But he said some corners that had been problems — like Fenimore Street and Nostrand Avenue, where known members of the Bloods live — had become less violent.

Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, has written a book, "Better Angels of Our Nature," that argues persuasively that humans have become less violent in modern times.

This style is particularly of the moment because it is apparent that football, at least in the short term, will become less violent.

It comes when Gray takes up Pinker's discussion of the post-1980s decline in American crime rates — a decline driven, in part, by mass incarceration on an extraordinary scale: No doubt we have become less violent in some ways.

Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard whose forthcoming book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," argues that humans have become less violent over the millenniums, suggests that the way to think about genetics and crime is to start with human nature and then look at what causes the switch for a particular trait to be flipped on or off.