Sentence examples for instruments of violence from inspiring English sources

With control of the Pakistani state comes, in theory, control over the nation's sanctioned instruments of violence: the police and the military.

The instruments of violence were all in the hands of the Shah, but power, it turned out, resided in the Iranian people.

Hands are a vulnerable part of a fighter's body, and in the case of Floyd Mayweather Jr., the delicate instruments of violence hurt chronically.

Both, he said, provide spiritual sustenance for the mission at hand: Spreading the word that Islam and the Koran are instruments of "violence, death and terrorism".

The collection ends - after a sobering array of German weapons and Jewish stars from the wartime occupation - with a mordant collection of the instruments of violence and murder, from knuckle-dusters and rolling pins to knives and guns.

To get something done with a skeptical Congress, the president ought to shift the focus from the instruments of violence to the perpetrators by calling for a substantial increase in the number of people who are listed by the F.B.I. as barred from purchasing guns.

Orestes, when he arrives, is a blank-faced instrument of violence; Mikhail Petrenko plays him as a block of basso ice.

Reading the article, I wondered who had seen that commotion, and I thought about the lock, an instrument of security turned into an instrument of violence.

From there, it traveled to many of the continent's most volatile locales, becoming an instrument of violence in some of Africa's ugliest wars and for brutal regimes.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It can be difficult to disentangle things that happen on Twitter from lighthearted entertainment, but, scrolling through the #myNYPD tweets and accompanying photographs, it's harder not to marvel at what so many people are saying: New York City's police department is widely viewed as an instrument of violence and the abuse of power, and has been for some time.

In the external dimension, through those same organizations and instrument of violence, to safeguard the territorial confines by self-defense from the threats of other sovereign states, in a context tending towards international anarchy.