Around Besançon strong tremors were felt, and a tracing point of the seismographic apparatus there was broken by the violence of the shock.
This developed into a dialogue about a mother and son, a relationship broken by the same violence still present.
But his own chart showing the decline of great power conflict seems to track pretty well with the rise of first Great Britain and then the United States: It depicts a gradual decline in warfare that's broken by irruptions of violence when first France and then Germany challenges the Anglosphere's hegemony.
Over the next several days I interviewed female and male rape survivors, households that were headed up by children and families broken by domestic abuse, violence, drugs and death.
He hopes the photographs will form part of a major project documenting the long-lasting effects of war on the millions of people around the world who, like him, have been profoundly affected - but not broken - by violence.
It's been 33 days since the nation's heart was broken by the horrific, senseless violence that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School, 20 -- 20 beautiful first-graders gunned down in a place that's supposed to be their second sanctuary; six -- six members of the staff killed trying to save those children.
Mingled with the preparations for the party, the stream-of-consciousness exploration of Mrs Dalloway's inner state is broken by an irruption of senseless violence when Septimus, who is waiting to be taken to an asylum, throws himself out of a window.
Past deals to end the violence have been broken by both sides, however, plunging the world's newest country into a humanitarian crisis.
Honduras is filled with communities broken by desperate migration -- migration driven by poverty and violence.
She called for the yoke of silence to be broken by all stakeholders, including children themselves on the "hidden" and underreported incidents of violence, in particular, sexual violence against girls.
Turning the other cheek does not condone the wrong of the other, but it affords us an opportunity in our responses to break cycles of violence by not sowing more violence.
