Sentence examples for normal violence from inspiring English sources

At his most provocative Mr. Mamdani questions the distinction between what is often labeled counterinsurgency and genocide, saying the former, even when it kills more people, is deemed "normal violence" while the latter is considered "amoral, evil," and typically it is the West that does the labeling.

But rather than a gradual rise to normal violence from a period of tranquility, this past week saw a sudden spike in American mass shooting violence.

Slaves who felt mistreated by a master (beyond the "normal" allowed violence) had the right to appeal to the local military commander — and they sometimes won.

Everybody has been taught this is normal; that violence is part of human nature, that religious conflict is inevitable and has always been with us, and only the Enlightenment and its secular ideals made it better.

From the "new normal" of violence perpetrated by home-grown AND home-facilitated extremism, Kenyans saw the foregoing set of factors combine to create a general feeling of national malaise in a year accurately characterized by the Daily Nation as an "annus horribilis".

How do you distinguish between a boy's normal fascination with violence and an abnormal expression of emotions?

His political organization, Shiv Sena, eventually became synonymous with the disruption of normal life and violence against unarmed citizens in Mumbai and other parts of the country.

With the breakdown of Syrian-Israeli peace talks earlier this year, the normal level of violence in the security zone intensified, eventually bringing a rain of Israeli bombs on Lebanese civilian targets like electrical generating plants.

The seeming breakdown of normal expectations about violence and public life reminds some of 1968, a terrible year although, if you think this is like 1968, you weren't there, since that year was marked by a generational breakdown far more extreme, a continuing foreign war far more violent, and a departing President infinitely more unpopular.

When the STAND Hotline, that serves Contra Costa County, fielded more than 12,500 calls for help in the first seven months of 2009, triple the number in a normal year (if violence is ever normal)?

Many people think violence is normal – it's not".