Sentence examples for commonplace violence from inspiring English sources

In the weeks that follow, Erika exasperates her young lover, but he retaliates: Walter acts not according to the instructions he receives but with the commonplace violence of an angry man asserting his superior strength, and Erika, disobeyed, is bereft.

It is essential that Labor reconsider our support for government policy because over the last two years we have been confronted with report after report from credible sources that detail the commonplace violence, assaults, abuse and rapes suffered by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.

It allows the speaker to claim concern for women's safety, and even more importantly, to decry critics as "anti-woman," without so much as causing a ripple on the surface of entrenched, commonplace violence against women.

Increasingly commonplace sexual violence has combined with plummeting female representation in parliament and a growth in more extreme Islamic views to push the country to the bottom of the region for women's rights.

But some of the proposals that Mr. Obama is expected to make at the White House on Wednesday, which are likely to include a call for expanded background checks, a ban on assault weapons and limits on high-capacity clips, will be intended not only to prevent high-profile mass shootings, but also to curb the more commonplace gun violence that claims many thousands more lives every year.

"But in order for this commonplace to sustain violence, a decisive metamorphosis has to take place: a people must become vermin in fact as well as in metaphor..

In a section of Crown Heights where condominiums and young professionals are becoming more commonplace, the random violence was a throwback to the violent past.

Most successful is Farah's dramatisation of the racial tensions and violence commonplace in many African cities ("Emergencies are a daily routine in our country") and the ways in which his characters deal with and grow accustomed to them.

That someone would feel this sense of impending shame as a motive for violence is commonplace.

Solanka then and there decides to leave them and go to New York, where violence is commonplace.

Other stories are entirely realistic, slices of life showing how people behave when violence becomes commonplace.