The phrase "exercise violence" is not correct and should not be used in written English.
Instead, a phrase such as "engage in violence" or "use violence" would be more appropriate. For example: "The protesters refused to engage in violence, even when provoked."
They represent the only opportunity to counterbalance a regime with unlimited power and no institutional oversight, that is armed and willing to exercise violence.
I am extremely impressed by the care with which Hoover Green developed her theory on how military commanders succeed (or fail) in socializing soldiers to exercise violence in battle yet treat civilians in a deliberately nonviolent way". "The Commander's Dilemma is a must-read book that makes a novel contribution to the literature of civilian victimization during civil war.
The impact frequently endures into adulthood, causing some to exercise violence in their own homes or to engage in other criminal behavior.
But this unfettered hospitality also highlights the impunity with which states like India and the US may now exercise violence and the intolerance for minorities and minority views that underwrites that violence.
"The law overprotects the security forces in the exercise of their law enforcement functions, being able to exercise violence against the citizens with impunity and according to their subjective criterion".
Children raised in homes where violence is used will learn to exercise violence in their own relationships, leading to a circle of violence.
When interlopers do arrive – like the lost Americans – they survive only so long as they pay obeisance to the king, who keeps the peace by exercising violence.
For nearly a century, what this mythological creature has embodied is Mexican authoritarianism, the legacy of a state that vows to protect its citizens by exercising violence over them.
They stated the strong role of the family in reproducing IPV: boys and young men learn to exercise IPV because they witness their fathers or other male relatives exercising violence against their intimate female partners.
Evidence shows that young men are the most likely to engage in IPV (26), that men's attitudes to and perceptions of gender relations and IPV are strongly linked with exercising violence against their partners (27), and that programmes that promote gender equality among young men show promising results (6, 27– 31).
That's why certain sectors must exercise force and violence on occasion in order to express themselves.
