Sentence examples for significant number of violent from inspiring English sources

"There's no suggestion there were a significant number of violent children".

A sampling of large New York City high schools showed that the schools failed to notify the state of a significant number of violent or disruptive episodes in the 2004-5 school year, the city comptroller announced yesterday.

Last month, 41 Indian writers returned the country's highest literary prize in a protest against 'the climate of intolerance' which has reportedly involved a significant number of violent attacks.

"But the new law is preventing significant numbers of violent criminals and people under domestic restraining orders from buying guns.

The beer hall's landlord, Ricky Steinberg, had argued that "a significant number of peaceful and/or violent demonstrators" posed a serious security risk, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, and that other guests would suffer unnecessary "discomfort, inconvenience and worry".

"The prisons are full of two strikers and three strikers, a significant number of whom are not violent offenders.

A significant number of women are controlled by violent gangs, some have been trafficked across borders, some between different towns where they offer "fresh meat" to clients who see the women they pay for as a mere commodity for pleasure.

One of the highlights of the program has been the complete turnaround of a significant number of youth from the engagement in violent activities.

A significant number of these took place in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two theatres of violent activism that are being rapidly consigned to the margins of world affairs, as international troops moved out of one and policymakers' attention moved away from the other.

While nearly a third of maternal imprisonments for the Indigenous population were for violent offences against the person, a significant number of imprisonments for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers were for non-violent crimes and fine default.

But in a small though significant number of cases, he commuted prison sentences for murderers and other violent criminals over the pleas of victims' families, prosecutors and judges.