Sentence examples for refuse violence from inspiring English sources

"Let's try, in Carlo's name, to be united, to refuse violence". At the family's request, there were no banners and virtually no flowers at the hour-long secular ceremony at the Staglieno cemetery on the outskirts of Genoa.

On the other hand, if it is 'real men' who refuse violence against women and if men are told to strive for a non-violent masculinity, then this may collude too much in gender itself.

John Ralston Saul, in his twin biography of two nineteenth-century visionaries of a unified Canada, Robert Baldwin and Louis Lafontaine, emphasizes how much the country owes to its tradition of avoiding conflict, at times refusing violence even when it means allowing a building to be burned down instead of having the military fire on a crowd.

Hamas has refused to reject violence or recognize Israel, which also considers it a terrorist organization, and has struggled lately to control more militant Islamist groups within Gaza.

Baydemir begged the crowd — in Turkish — to settle down, to refuse further violence, to go home and rest.

They continue to protest, and they refuse to use violence.

NS: But you can understand the principle of not recognising people who refuse to renounce violence and refuse to recognise Israel?

However, groups that refuse to renounce violence as a means of obtaining power, or that reject the legitimacy of democracy, have no place in the new order.

The complaint has called on the company to be more transparent and provide documents about the training procedures for staff and incident logs; provide remediation to victims of violence; refuse to participate in the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers, while also ensuring human rights conditions were improved for those detained, with adequately trained employees.

"We refuse to tolerate violence on our campus.

"We must celebrate it, protect it, and refuse to let violence and hate undermine the progress we have made as a city, a state, and a nation".