Sentence examples for ferocious violence from inspiring English sources

Not from Pope Benedict XVI, who condemned the "absurd and ferocious violence".

By mid-afternoon, it was "sustained and ferocious violence", leading the "silver commander" Chief Superintendent Michael Johnson to order full containment of the square.

The corpses were on the grass verges of two large roundabouts between Bab al-Aziziyah, Muammar Gaddafi's compound stormed by the revolutionaries at the weekend and Abu Salim, a loyalist district which saw three days of ferocious violence.

Opposition party leaders assumed that the ferocious violence against its supporters would abate once election observers from across Africa arrived, making it possible for them to campaign openly and mobilize their poll workers.

"There were women and children, old men," among the bodies, Mr. Salihu, a peace activist and journalist, said in a telephone interview from Jos, the central Nigerian city where two days of ferocious violence between Christians and Muslims after a disputed local election has left hundreds of people dead.

In an effort to expand its size and influence, MS-13 dropped its original requirement that only Salvadorans could belong, but is still run by former members of the Salvadoran militias, a fact that has given it a reputation for ferocious violence even by gang standards and a penchant for crimes involving machetes.

To complicate things further, local warlords, or dacoits, such as the legendary bandit prince Twet Nga Lu, launched ferocious campaigns of violence against the Shan.

"You don't glance away when you're talking to someone - because you don't want to be rude!" As a result, the Oculus Rift team predicted that the ferocious levels of violence and horror seen in today's modern games would need to be dialled down in a virtual-reality world.

But a ferocious increase in violence, including the July 26 kidnapping of four reporters, has pushed the profession into a crisis never before seen, drawn renewed international attention and spurred fresh activism on the part of Mexican newsmen and women.

Her art was one of transformations, of ferocious vulnerability and tender violence.

Zarqawi, a ferocious advocate of sectarian violence so extreme that it even frayed ties with Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi was killed in 2006.