Sentence examples for expanding violence from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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".

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

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.

Now, with the peace process stalled, Israeli hardliners empowered, settlements expanding, escalating violence in Jerusalem and West Bank, and talk of a third intifada, the French have decided it's time for the international community to change its strategy -- and end the U.S. monopoly on the peace process.

He noted the university made staffing changes as well, including creating six new positions in the Office of Sexual Violence Response, planning to open a second rape-crisis center on campus this month and expanding anti-violence education for all students.

It would fund practical support such as crisis accommodation and transport, children's counsellors and other special care for young people who witness violence in the home, support the work of Domestic Violence Victoria to employ additional staff, and expand family violence courts and community legal centres.