Sentence examples for exercise of violence from inspiring English sources
But the primary threat to the US and Israel is that Iran might deter their free exercise of violence.
And to acknowledge the wrongs – indeed, atrocities – committed on all sides, so detaching those corrupted by the exercise of violence from the arena of policy-making.
There is no special virtue, in other words, in having access to vulnerability, as Sinatra's admirers like to say, when it's simply a kind of self-pity alongside the exercise of violence.
When I asked if he felt sorry for anything he had done in the war, he gave me a long look and said, "The exercise of violence always gives one pause".
George Will has written that, "A defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence.
The U.N. chief called on all parties "to abandon the use of violence, exercise maximum restraint and exert all efforts to move toward a political solution," he said.
The West's tenuous hold on the rule of law and its fluid social fabric necessitated the settling of individual and group conflicts by the use of violence and the exercise of physical courage, and the moral dramas and dilemmas arising within this elemental, even primeval, framework lent themselves remarkably well to motion-picture treatment.
The exercise of righteous violence is what turns action figures into pop-culture icons.
The question of the legitimacy of law thus turns on the question of the legitimacy of an identity-constituting sovereign exercise of foundational violence.
The statement also called on Mr. Mubarak to avoid "at all costs the use of violence against unarmed civilians and on the demonstrators to exercise their rights peacefully".
