Sentence examples for mayhem against from inspiring English sources

The anger runs the other way here in Ban Huay Chan, where the farmers spun violent fantasies of mayhem against the protesters.

Eventually Sylvia and Aminta are joined; Diana kills Orion but is dissuaded from further mayhem against the lovers by Eros, who reminds her of her own tryst with Endymion.

Intelligence and law enforcement officials said the authorities in Boston weighed the risks of some mayhem against their growing fear that time was slipping away and that heavily armed and increasingly dangerous men, and possibly accomplices, could wage new attacks in the Boston area or beyond.

And not just sex, of course, but violence as well, both in the sense of an unwatchably brutal rape in the opening scenes (the BBFC cut 10 seconds from the sequence) and the general vaguely retributive mayhem against men, and indeed women, sprayed about by Bonnie and Bonnie.

Winner of the best documentary prize at this year's South by Southwest and Hot Docs festivals, "Dragonslayer" is a tale of young love and skating mayhem set against the recession-wracked suburbs of Central and Southern California.

The attacks, 17 in all, marked one of the more violent days in the capital in recent months, and demonstrated that Iraqi authorities are still struggling to stem the mayhem directed against security forces as the United States prepares to withdraw its troops by the end of the year.

I'll update this post when we find out how Mayhem fares against flesh and blood.

As the movie begins, we learn that a military coup against the country's democratically elected government has unleashed horrific mayhem, carried out against Christian civilians by Muslim military men (sometimes identified as rebels, sometimes as the national army, but always outfitted in green khakis and crimson berets).

Mr. Yusuf is an Ethiopian-backed military strongman who is expected to take a tough line against militia mayhem.

During the next decade, as the city slid into decline and mayhem, he defended it against its many critics, comparing them, as "they cackle with glee," to "blue-bottle flies settling on carrion, buzzing with delight".

"To guard against possible mayhem from a debt ceiling crisis, some of the nation's largest banks are deploying plans that were developed in 2011 — when the government first looked as if it were on the verge of surpassing its debt ceiling limits," DealBook writes.