Sentence examples for term violence from inspiring English sources

When I used the term "violence," I meant not thuggishness or fighting but rather good, honest wreckage.

Although the Labour government ignored one of Lord Lloyd's key recommendations, that legislation against terrorism should closely approximate ordinary criminal law and procedure, they followed his guidance that the definition of terrorism should include the term "violence".

"Research on the impact of this long term violence shows it becomes difficult to leave - one's confidence has been damaged.

Clearly, the most obvious, and I think the most interesting category is that described by Williams with the term "violence" (though that has the contentious, and I think unfortunate implication that all violence is immoral).

A comprehensive definition expands the use of the term "violence" to situations that result from economic poverty, social alienation, or political repression.

The term "violence against women" is based on the UN declaration that was launched in 1993 by the General Assembly entitled "The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women" (DVAW 2003).

When he describes the case for violence, he makes it in political terms: Violence strengthened Fatah, he argues, and is essential to bring Israelis to the bargaining table and keep them there.

Sectarian cleansing of areas (particularly in Baghdad) has further reduced short-term violence.

Can we expect, through short-term violence, to engender long-term peace?

Non-war related free speech rights were also advanced during the Vietnam war era; in 1969, the ACLU defended a Ku Klux Klan member who advocated long-term violence against the government, and the Supreme Court concurred with the ACLU's argument in the landmark decision Brandenburg v. Ohio, which held that only speech which advocated imminent violence could be outlawed.

Similarly, in Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India, Ashutosh Varshney theorized that the likelihood that inciting events would lead to widespread or long-term violence was significantly less in communities where civic ties across lines of religious identity were present.