Sentence examples for prefer violence from inspiring English sources

"It is difficult to interpret this latest attack as anything but a signal that Sinn Fein and the IRA are not interested in peace and democracy and prefer violence," said a visibly shaken Tony Blair, speaking from the EU summit in Amsterdam.

Or do they actually prefer violence and killing to our form of nonviolent struggle because it camouflages their ongoing theft and gives them an excuse to continue using us as guinea pigs for their weapons?

Part justified because the flotilla's organizers were offered a peaceful detour away from confrontation and rejected the offer preferring violence to score points at the expense of exposing innocents to unnecessary injury and death.The ringleaders on the ferry were akin to anarchists trying to provoke the police into a confrontation with a peaceful demonstration.

That stopped the assembly line, until it was explained to him that the purpose of the question hadn't been to ask whether he preferred force to violence, rather to elicit from him a comprehensive rejection of both.

One protester found himself pinned to the wall with the manager's hand around his throat, to the horror of some customers who prefer their violence on the screen, before being chucked out.

People who've actually experienced death or violence prefer Vera Lynn.

The pope blessed the efforts of "all those who, rather than resigning themselves to the twisted logic of conflict and violence, prefer instead the path of dialogue and negotiation as the means of resolving tensions within each country and finding just and lasting solutions to the conflicts troubling the region".

When a group of unknown size and unknown firepower has taken over any federal building with plans and possibly some equipment to aid a years-long occupation — and when its representative tells reporters that they would prefer to avoid violence but are prepared to die — the kind of almost-uniform delicacy and the limits on the language used to describe the people involved becomes noteworthy itself.

They prefer invisibility to showy violence.

To your violence I prefer responding with my lyrics.

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