Sentence examples for immense violence from inspiring English sources

I don't know what it means.' It's something you learn to live with for the rest of your life". In any case, she reflects, acts of immense violence are hardly new in human affairs.

As was seen in Iran under Reza Pahlavi, as well as in Mao Zedong's China, these single-minded authoritarian figures, who saw themselves as bending history to their will, inflicted immense violence and suffering on their societies.

With a backdrop of immense violence and the unravelling of state institutions it should surprise no one that a group such as IS captured so much territory and popularity.

The fight of American Revolutionaries against a monarchy, or French Resistance against Nazis, or Africans against colonialists has relied upon armed resistance and at times immense violence with conflicting views on the justification for such.

One thing, however, is certain, the institutions and power sharing agreements that preceded IS were unsustainable, they required the threat of immense violence and sowed the seeds for a plethora of violent, genocidal movements.

Roberts asks why people should even have high-capacity magazines, and Rick Santorum says that there weren't any restrictions on guns or magazine fifty years ago and there was less violence and what does that tell you, huh? (SPOILER ALERT: It tells you that in fifty years time guns and magazines have grown more capable of doing immense violence).

Federico Lombardi, spokesman for the Vatican, said Pope Francis "shares the pain and horror of this absurd violence" adding that the attack created "immense pain and worry".

Thousands of Sikhs were killed in the 1980s in the name of Indian patriotism, we've faced immense backlash violence in the United States (and elsewhere) since 9/11 (many perpetrators calling themselves patriots), and we continue to face a legal ban on turbans in French classrooms and photographs on government-issued identification.

It is a place of immense distances, enormous violence, a cosmic maelstrom in which countless stars are born and die and they and their galaxies are constantly moving "away" - the whole universe expanding from its origins in the big bang billions of years ago.

Weeks of immense suffering and violence in east Aleppo since the Syrian regime and allies began a final push into territory that had been in rebel hands since 2012 have left residents in total despair and increasingly angry at the international community for abandoning them to their fate.

Weeks of immense suffering and violence in eastern Aleppo since the Syrian regime and its allies began a final push into territory that had been in rebel hands since 2012 have left residents in total despair and increasingly angry at the international community for abandoning them to their fates.