Sentence examples for uniquely violent from inspiring English sources

Comparisons between similar large cities also belie the argument that there is something uniquely violent about America's urban poor.

When he wants to argue, for instance, that the 20th century was not uniquely violent, he cites a list of the 21 worst atrocities in human history and notes that when you adjust for the size of world population only one 20th century horror (World War II, taken as a whole) makes the top ten.

You have to accept a uniquely narrow view not of human nature but of American character — that Americans are so uniquely violent, so paranoid and hate-filled, so incurably homicidal, that they will keep killing each other no matter what laws exist — to believe that the same simple social restraints that have ended epidemic gun violence elsewhere won't work here.

On the other hand, the N.F.L.'s knee-jerk reaction to the relative carnage of last Sunday could be beneficial if it encourages players to act less like blood-lusting gladiators and more like well-compensated professionals who play a uniquely violent game.

You have to accept a uniquely narrow view not of human nature but of American character that Americans are so uniquely violent, so paranoid and hate-filled, so incurably homicidal, that they will keep killing each other no matter what laws exist to believe that the same simple social restraints that have ended epidemic gun violence elsewhere won't work here.

Though the case is exceptional, it can also be seen as a uniquely violent detail within a bigger picture - one in which the division between the real world and the virtual world is becoming increasingly porous, and the seepage between the two can have damaging consequences.

That's a form of American exceptionalism — the belief that Americans are uniquely evil and incorrigibly violent, and that nothing to be done about it — that doesn't seem to be the one that is usually endorsed.

In contrast, only sixth grade problems with substance use forecasted increased likelihood of engaging in at least one risky sexual behavior by the end of middle school (OR 186.40), whereas neither nonviolent nor violent delinquency was uniquely associated with high-risk sexual behavior.

Supporters of capital punishment also claim that it has a uniquely potent deterrent effect on potentially violent offenders for whom the threat of imprisonment is not a sufficient restraint.

Violent men die violently.

Another historian, Matthew C. Hulbert, calls the guerrilla war in Missouri "hyper-violent," making it a "uniquely different wartime experience" from that of ordinary soldiers.