Sentence examples for precipitated violence from inspiring English sources

"I think he probably knew that given the scale of Sirisena's victory, it would have precipitated violence if he stayed – and as a politician, he did not want to be blamed for that".

Arrested on April 12 , 1963 during an epic struggle to desegregate Birmingham, Ala., King was in jail when he read the statement of eight white moderate clergymen who criticized the demonstrations as "untimely," branded King "extreme" and chided the protesters for precipitating violence.

You assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence.

We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence".

Mr. Halevi also ignores actions that precipitated the violence.

Afghan officials said an argument had precipitated the violence, which has been the case in other such attacks.

But it also found no evidence to support the accusation that Mr. Dinkins and his police commissioner at the time, Lee P. Brown, deliberately withheld police protection from the Hasidim to allow blacks to "vent their rage" over the episode that precipitated the violence: the death of a black child who was accidentally struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.

Trump received widespread condemnation for claiming there was violence "on many sides" in Charlottesville, without explicitly condemning the white supremacist groups that included Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis that precipitated the violence.

A study from rural Bangladesh also revealed similar findings, where affiliating with a village credit program for economic empowerment had precipitated domestic violence against women by their husbands [ 14].

And while there may be social and historical behaviours and circumstances that precipitate violence, the scourge of abuse of children remains a problem that affects the most modern of cities as well as the most traditional of rural communities.

That could precipitate renewed violence between Hindus and Muslims.