Sentence examples for expanded violence from inspiring English sources

An expanded Violence Against Women Act would reflect the reality of American life in the 21st century – when gay men and lesbians actually get married and illegal immigrants cannot merely be deported or wished away.

In the past month, the U.S. Congress passed the expanded Violence Against Women Act it had held up for a year and a half, and, separately, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, went to war against sexual assault in the U.S. military, holding the first Senate hearings on this staggering problem in nearly ten years.

"Tell Congress to pass the expanded Violence Against Women Act today".

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We've won some shifts in policy in 2013: We forced Congress to enact an improved and expanded Violence Against Women Act.

The last would expand Violence Against Women Act protections to gay, bisexual or transgender victims of domestic abuse.

In a year in which President Felipe Calderón's party, in power since 2000, may struggle to hang on to the presidency in July elections, the expanding violence is giving political rivals, all promising a more peaceful country, much to run on.

In a day of expanding violence, an Israeli helicopter gunship killed three Muslim militants today in a rocket attack on a car in the West Bank, hours after Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian radar station deep in Lebanon in retaliation for a guerrilla attack on Friday.

In some parts of South Sudan child abduction is a common practice, and with the expanding violence many more families and children may suffer the fate of Mangok's nieces and nephew.

"On reservations and tribal lands, it's open season on women," said Kim A. Gandy, the president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, an advocacy group pressing for passage of an expanded domestic violence law.

To keep our daughters safer, the bill requires colleges to collect and disclose information about sexual assault, and to update and expand domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking services on their campuses.