Sentence examples for severe act from inspiring English sources

Those given a diagnosis of PTSD were "significantly more likely to perpetrate violence toward their partners," the study found, with more than 80percentt committing at least one act of violence in the previous year, and almost half at least one severe act.

The most severe act of sabotage of the fedayeen occurred on 4 July 1969, when a single militant placed three pounds of explosives under the manifold of eight pipelines carrying oil from the Haifa refinery to the dockside.

According to a report compiled by the CDC in 2014, nearly one in three (31.5percentt) women have experienced physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetimes, and nearly one in four (22.3 percent) have experienced at least one severe act, such as being slammed against something or hit with a hard object or a fist.

However, our figures are greater than those shown in a Russian study with female students using the same operational definition of chronicity and severity (7.7% were severe acts at a mean chronicity of 1.2) [ 41].

When enforced against the parents' will, it is one of the most severe acts that the state can take.

Then, the N.R.C. and the nuclear industry can honestly tell the public that all reasonable measures have been taken to protect them from severe acts of nature.

Mrs. Hackett, 47, also contended that she was subjected to "constant and severe acts of sexual harassment," including being forcibly kissed during company functions by Martin Alonzo, a stock trader at Barings.

An indictment against Mr. Criscuolo, on charges of first-degree rape and predatory assault of a child, says that he committed some of the most severe acts in mid-June — between when the students alerted Ms. Donald and the arrest.

Both sections were introduced in response to three major independent inquiries, including the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which found that racial hatred and vilification causes psychological harm to its targets, and reinforces and normalises more severe acts of discrimination, harassment, intimidation and violence.

President Bush's senior advisers have concluded for now that the most severe acts of retaliation they could threaten in the spy-plane standoff with China -- selling advanced arms to Taiwan, restricting trade, derailing Beijing's bid for the Olympics -- would not speed the release of the 24 American crew members and could harm longer-term interests in Asia, administration officials said.

But they did find a couple of troubling links: Men who were stressed about not feeling masculine enough had the highest rates of DWIs and were more likely to commit severe acts of assault (those involving weapons and/or causing injury).