Sentence examples for legitimate violence from inspiring English sources

Examples of legitimate violence can be found in rugby and gridiron football and in boxing, wrestling, and Asian martial arts.

How can a state continue to muddle through when it has lost the fundamental requisite of a state, its monopoly on the use and definition of legitimate violence?

He spent two months mulling over the meaning of life and legitimate violence with Shaolin monks in China and returned to study painting at Nottingham University.

No sane society can survive if the state, however fair, however free, cannot enforce order and hold a monopoly on legitimate violence.

A Swiss sociologist, Max Weber, long ago gave a famous definition of the state as the agency which holds a monopoly of legitimate violence in the area under its control.

It is legitimate violence in history.

On the philosophical level, totalization legitimates dogmatism; on the political level, it legitimates violence.

This is known in dense-speak as a "justificatory narrative rooted in apartheid practices that legitimated violence by the dominant group against the disempowered".

Thus the point at which legitimate force becomes illegitimate violence is determined by the symbolic power invested in the state.

"They tell us that there is an overlap in the content between the legitimations that rapists use to legitimate their violence against women and the kinds of things that are said about women in lads' mags," Hegarty said in a video press release on the University of Surrey's website.

But by placing a stamp of approval on "acceptable" ways to make war, they legitimate terrible violence.