Sentence examples for might be violent from inspiring English sources

A detainee might be violent and dangerous, or reasonably likely to commit sexual offences in the future.

We live, we age, we die; the end might be peaceful, or it might be violent like this – but never does Rembrandt fight shy of the truth.

Both Chakraborti and Ismail warn that people should be careful when intervening, especially if the person might be violent and their intervention could escalate the situaiton.

He adds: "The Muslim Brothers are a special case because we are not seeking power through violent or military means like other Islamic organisations that might be violent.

This is a country that might be violent, where many people might see violence almost daily, but any uniformed force that operates outside the law will not be tolerated.

So all games might be violent, but games are not life.

Agitating for shorter hours and higher pay might sometimes be a useful tactic, but the paramount goal was always to hasten the Revolution, which might not necessarily be violent but would certainly be convulsive.

The conflicts are also on a different scale: food riots and unrest triggered by spiralling prices; clashes between farmers and herders of livestock over land and water; competing demands on water for irrigation or for cities. "It will be within communities or between farmers and it might not necessarily be violent," Adger said.

She supports what might be called violent hip-hop, when it's made for a reason.

However, Hollywood observers had already been questioning whether Iñárritu's film might be too violent and unrelenting for Academy voters, so it's no surprise that the studio moved quickly to shut down the spurious "bear rape" claim.

The concern that there might be a violent encounter at sea between the Israeli Navy and pro-Palestinian activists came six weeks after Israeli naval commandos boarded a Turkish flotilla that had sought to break Israel's blockade on Gaza and ended up killing nine men on board, although the Navy has stopped a number of other boats without incident.