Sentence examples for encounters violence from inspiring English sources

Trying to understand his brother's death, he encounters violence and corruption wherever he goes.

The picaresque is a kind of moral education for this wide-eyed guy as he encounters violence and cruelty and food and sex and money and religion and his dear books and the weird customs of men, and beneath all of it his overwhelming desire to swim.

From Mark Miller, the twelve-year-old who asserts that America never encounters violence in its political system (Lincoln, Kennedy, MLK, Ford and Reagan notwithstanding) to the half-dozen or so GOP bigwigs who should be old enough to know better than to circulate racist e-mails, there are plenty of targets out there, people.

The Freedom Riders encountered violence in South Carolina, but in Alabama the reaction was much more severe.

Our children will encounter violence, real or make believe, in their lives.

Women who "deviate" from this moral code may encounter violence from partners, parents or relatives.

The Chicago convention was not the first time that Mr. Silverman encountered violence in American streets during the upheavals of the 1960s.

It is also a country in which divorce sometimes is not an option for many women and those seeking dissolution have encountered violence.

The flamboyant 36-year-old civil rights advocate had been subjected to taunts, threats and racial epithets in leading many earlier protest marches in the predominantly white neighborhood, but had not encountered violence there.

The tranquil shore of Wheatfields Lake, a high-country fishing hole set among the ponderosa and sandstone here on the Navajo Reservation, would seem an unlikely place to encounter violence.

Words are projected on another wall, phrases in Spanish and English that add up to an amorphous narrative about swimming, encountering violence, trying to scream, and then, in that illogical dream way, being carried off in a boat.