Sentence examples for had been violent from inspiring English sources

Recently, Hernández said, there had been violent "confrontations" with traffickers.

There is little doubt that at least some of the miners at Marikana had been violent.

But the robbery had been violent, with one robber killed in a police shootout.

He sued her for $10m, claiming she had been violent during their marriage.

But, Justice Kennedy went on, the issue was not whether Mr. Sykes's actual conduct had been violent.

Eisenstein made of it a lyric poem, as calm and as expansive as Potemkin had been violent and compact.

My son has been violent.

"Emerging from this crisis has been violent," Mr. Büsser said.

There have been violent incidents of sectarian strife too.

There have been violent reprisals and counter-reprisals.

Some of the protesters have been violent but the Ethiopian authorities' response has been grossly disproportionate.