Sentence examples for object of violent from inspiring English sources

Natural resources like diamonds became the object of violent struggles.

When the first complete translation of the Bible into English emerged, it became the object of violent controversy because it was inspired by the heretical teachings of John Wycliffe.

He also published books on various periods in Latin-American history, among them Cuadro histórico de las Indias, 2 vol. (1945; The Rise and Fall of the Spanish American Empire), and the trilogy Christopher Columbus (1939), Hernán Cortés (1941), and Simón Bolívar (1949), the last being the object of violent criticism for its iconoclasm.

Nonetheless, Millhone quickly finds herself the object of violent physical assaults.

"It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action," Cupich wrote.

(These monasteries have been the object of numerous violent attacks. Several have been destroyed; others remain under threat).

Her character was the object of a violent quarrel between two brothers played by Amedeo Nazzari, the most popular star of melodramas at the time, and Mastroianni.

Here, Plimpton's moment of glory becomes the object of precise violent choreography by his co-star in the scene, John Wayne, as well as of Hawks's on-the-set rewrite of the ringer's one line.

It's often down to the shoe or the telephone … and the everyday objects of a violent person".

Here, Lenin revived his polemics against the Mensheviks, who objected to his advocacy of violent expropriations and thefts such as the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, which the Bolsheviks were using to fund their activities.

While many R-rated movies are inappropriate for younger viewers because of violent or graphic content, parents may not object to their children seeing certain R films.