Sentence examples for permissible violence from inspiring English sources

Israel's dangerous legal innovations, if accepted, would expand the scope of permissible violence to previously protected persons and places, and turn international humanitarian law on its head.

Within religions that are not wholly non-violent like Christianity and Islam--both of which developed theories of permissible, justified violence--you will find many, many non-violent persons who would not lift a thumb or forefinger in anger against another human being, and you will even find many who would not impair the life of a mockingbird or a fenced cow.

Japan's Foreign Minister, Masahiko Komura, said it was "not permissible to use violence to try to force through one's opinion".

The school's inaction had rendered the violence permissible, and we knew it would have been handled differently had this been an incident of bullying or a fight.

"Unfortunately, more and more youth think that hate and racial violence are permissible".

Large-scale, organized violence becomes permissible and sometimes necessary under totalitarian rule, justified by the overriding commitment to the state ideology and pursuit of the state's goal.

As a co-founder of the first cell of the Islamic Group (al-Gamaat al-Islamiyah) he believed that violence was permissible to spread the message of Islam and establish an Islamic state.

When asked if violence was nevertheless permissible in the West Bank and Gaza Stip, where Hamas insists that it retains a free hand, Mr. Helas responded with questions of his own: "Do you think that people under occupation have the right to resist the soldiers who are occupying them?

Thus, in extreme cases, violence may be permissible; but hatred is never justified.

The basic foundation of his code, Witt contends, was that "virtually any use of force was permissible if required by military necessity," which produced "both a broad limit on war's violence and a robust license to destroy".

For years, Hollywood producers and directors have said the ratings are seriously flawed because the ratings board seems to view violence as far more permissible than sex.