Sentence examples for midst of violent from inspiring English sources

Even in the midst of violent argument, they remember to say "ma'am" and "sir".

In both New Orleans and Chicago, his profession often put him in the midst of violent men, thugs, gangsters and murderers.

He's our fetish object — the cop who keeps digging when everyone ignores the truth, the action hero who rescues children in the midst of violent chaos, the outsider with painful secrets and harsh truths and nice arms.

Two US companies have shipped crowd control munitions and teargas to Egypt – one firm repeatedly – in the midst of violent and often lethal crackdowns on protesters by security forces, according to an Amnesty International investigation.

To call back tourists: The travel company Thomas Cook, which is evacuating nearly four thousand Europeans travelling in Tunisia, citing concern for their well-being in the midst of violent protests that have left twenty-three dead.

But against a background of terrorist threats, he cannot risk a situation like Seattle's during the World Economic Forum in 1999, when the city came close to shutting down in the midst of violent protests.

In the midst of this violent, high-tech mysticism, though, there is one point of clear argument: Marinetti loves cars.

And now, in the midst of a violent and unprecedented economic storm, he calmly urges Americans to continue to believe, and invest, in ourselves.

Anticipating a rematch of Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu in spring elections, they dourly envisaged a battle between two failed prime ministers against the backdrop of a deeply flawed political system and in the midst of a violent conflict with the Palestinians.

I'd see him on the news speaking truth to power, speaking out against his country's white rulers and their shameful system of apartheid, or standing in the midst of some violent altercation trying to calm the situation down, and I'd wonder how much longer he'd be able to get away with it.

Lipsius's philosophical interest in Roman Stoicism led to the publication of his highly successful Senecan dialogue, set in the midst of the violent religious and political struggles of the Netherlands, De constantia in publicis malis ("On Constancy in Times of Public Calamity", 1583/4).