"Lives are destroyed and futures are damaged; tragically, women and children suffer the harshest effects of this violent cycle.
"We have to get ahead of that violent cycle, break that continuous chain of sectarian violence...
We saw well over a thousand people killed in the recent Ghouta attacks and the United Nations has reported over a hundred thousand deaths in the seemingly endless violent cycle of the Syrian crisis.
The more he becomes locked into an obsessively violent cycle, the more he adopts the exaggerated language and persona of a Shakespearean hero defending the honour of a noble friend.
Foreign donors have cut tens of millions of dollars in promised aid to his country as punishment for helping the rebels.In a repeat of a violent cycle that goes back to 1998, the two Congolese sides have reached an edgy stalemate.
The cease-fire that ended eight days of bombing and airstrikes between Hamas and Israel should allow Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza to return to some normalcy as the two sides pull back from a violent cycle that killed 140 Palestinians and five Israelis in the past week.
That line began to shift in late April, as the Sunni protest movement turned into a violent cycle of demonstrations, government crackdowns and revenge attacks.
"Kenny realised that if he didn't create his own future, he would merely become a pawn in this scene, trapped in the violent, oppressive cycle of gangsterism.
Why do some couples weather the divorce process relatively smoothly and simply, and others get caught in a violent cycle of emotional legal proceedings?
VIOLENT CYCLE -- Violence surges in Israel as Hamas retaliates for Israel's assassination of a leader of the militant group in July.
