Sentence examples for violence deployed from inspiring English sources

This moral justification seemed more compelling with each new assignment, due to the ever-escalating violence deployed by dealers to deter communities from talking to the police.

The character, a martial arts master and mystical peacenik, was portrayed by Mr. Carradine with a preternatural calm and, in moments of heroic violence — deployed only as a last resort — an explosive grace, a reluctant hero more comfortable spouting vaguely Confucian aphorisms than wreaking physical vengeance on even the most evil foes.

The Coens' signature ultra-violence, deployed to such brilliant effect in "Fargo," is a little too nihilistic for my taste in some of the others — e.g., "Blood Simple" and "No Country for Old Men".

Government officials condemned the violence and deployed 400 military police officers to the southern city.

Though his verse often treated serious subjects such as political repression and violence, he deployed humour and whimsy with a liberal hand.

Less widely appreciated is that there are few Iraqi families which have not suffered directly, either in the massacres which crushed the 1991 uprisings, or by the violence routinely deployed by Iraq's secret police.

During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, in Chicago, Mike Gray and other members of a TV commercial crew took a break from a shoot, went out in the street, and found themselves in the midst of police violence being deployed against peaceful protesters.

Most of the time, this form of gender-based violence is deployed during a marital dispute.

Authorities moved quickly to stem the violence by deploying troops, banning unlawful assembly and setting up roadblocks.

In recent months, the city has sought to combat such violence by deploying hundreds of officers, some on overtime, to 20 zones plagued by shootings.

But at least John Major had the decency not to hit out at Neil Kinnock in person (more than one adviser is said to have cautioned against it, warning that Paddy Ashdown might respond to an outbreak of violence by deploying his Marine commando skills, silencing his fellow leaders with a single deadly blow).