Sentence examples for expected violent from inspiring English sources
Cinna was about a conspiracy against the first Roman emperor, Augustus, who checkmates his adversaries by granting them a political pardon instead of dealing them the expected violent fate, boasting that he has strength enough to be merciful.
TALLINN, Estonia, May 24 — When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
If ministers go down this route, they can expect violent protests.
You expect violent death or a crime scene in an alley, in a ghetto, or in front of a bank teller.
"We expect violent actions from the side of the Muslim Brotherhood, and we cannot accept that armed gatherings be labeled as peaceful protests or sit-ins," Khalid Talima, a representative of the coalition formed around the anti-Morsi protests that preceded his ouster, said at a news conference under the banner "Muslim Brotherhood-American conspiracy against the revolution".
A recorded interaction between visiting NATO protesters and Chicago police suggests that some officers are expecting violent encounters with demonstrators.
"The essential difference between our point of view, which is widespread but underreported, and the opinions being presented in the mainstream media," said Rabbi Lerner, "is that we believe it is unrealistic to expect violent and hardline tactics, however well justified by the other side's violence, to build the psychological grounds for peace.
While we would expect violent mortality to be more clearly understood than infectious diseases, for example, we recognize that the same victims affected by violent injuries may also die from diseases that are pre-existing or acquired.
Some shootings, like Columbine, are perpetrated by people of whom no one would ever have expected such violent acts.
"We can expect some violent reaction".
Did I expect that violent a reaction?
