Sentence examples for purposeful violence from inspiring English sources

It is purposeful violence to achieve a political goal".

Yet the urge to chuckle is countered by the intensity of the mood and purposeful violence of the movements.

Mark Drumbl, a law professor at Washington and Lee, observes that "whereas the child perpetrator targeting Africans tends to be held as a mindless captive of purposeless violence, the child perpetrator targeting Westerners tends to be held as an intentional author of purposeful violence".

It defines terrorism as the calculated and purposeful use of violence employed to influence the attitudes and behaviour of people and governments, and takes its raw data from the U.S. National Counter-terrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System.

The crime in Tucson, it appears, had more in common with one of those all too frequent schoolhouse or workplace killing sprees than with a purposeful act of political violence.

Frikkie Venter, the head in South Africa of Global Solutions, the firm in charge, says 40 hours of purposeful activities a week means less violence and weaker gangs.

We call on the government to take a lead and collect and publicise statistics on female victims of male violence to move the debate towards a purposeful search for solutions".

Relational violence is defined as "harming others through purposeful manipulation and damage of their peer relationships" [ 22].

In any case, there's no reason to assume that the depiction of violence, in general, serves only one purpose; there are as many reasons to stage graphic violence as there are purposeful directors.

We don't need to think about how purposeful disinvestment from neighborhoods in Chicago has led to more violence.

An interpretive descriptive design guided this study that included 17 semi-structured interviews with a purposeful sample of 12 Canadian registered nurses who self-reported experiencing patient violence within acute care inpatient psychiatry.