Sentence examples for bordering on violence from inspiring English sources
On Monday and Tuesday in Bangalore, a city otherwise known mostly for its booming information technology industry, bands of movie fans erupted in street protests bordering on violence and brought the city nearly to a halt.
The girls, "sweating and obstinate, their tangled hair flapping in the wind … fearlessly clash with their male opponents and fight for the ball with an energy bordering on violence".
Between them, Jacob Druckman's String Quartet No. 2 (1966) and Betsy Jolas's "Quatuor V" (1994) explored such similar resources — shimmering chordal timbres, pizzicato percussive effects and turbulence bordering on violence — that it seemed as if Ms. Jolas was offering a commentary on Mr. Druckman's earlier score.
The 45-minute session was filled with tears and screaming and bordered on physical violence — several times Faheema's mother grabbed her daughter's arm and held it in an iron grip as if to drag her from the mediation room, through the door and out the gate.
And like his acknowledged influences, Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy, he wrote stories and novels rife with tortuous family drama, events bordering on the supernatural and violence that could erupt with a flash.
But they were also somewhat like lab rats, given to little nips that, in time, as childish energy morphed into adolescent aggression, evolved into violence bordering on the pathological.
The Optimists by Andrew Miller 313pp, Sceptre, £16.99 The optimists of Andrew Miller's title are not much evident in his book, which inhabits a territory bordered on one side by violence and on the other by madness.
This is bordering on abuse.
We are bordering on insanity".
When election violence bordered on riotous in North Mitrovica on November 3rd, EULEX asked KFOR to step in and secure the situation.
