Although the peak of the violence had passed, the city was still unsafe.
Reflecting that, accidents and violence have passed cancer as the leading cause of death after heart disease, something unthinkable for a modern nation.
But after the riots, when the smoke from the arson fires has lifted and the spasms of violence have passed, it is the black residents who, inevitably, have endured the worst of the suffering -- lives lost, neighborhoods destroyed, hopes for the future derailed.
And fighting is just as obviously the chief symptom of a culture of violence that has passed out of control.
A deadline set by the security forces for the violence to end has passed with no immediate sign of police action.
LONDON — A week has passed since the violence in Port Said killed more than 70 at a soccer game, rekindling street protests around Egypt that led to even more deaths.
Exuberant revolution has passed into economic malaise, political stagnation and, worst of all, horrendous violence.
Power has passed back and forth between left and right, but truly radical movements have found little traction, and political violence has been mercifully rare.
In the year that has passed since the first gatherings in Tahrir Square, on January 25 , 2011 Egypt has been riven by paroxysms of protest and violence, crackdowns and martyrdoms.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has passed the episode with a U certificate, while also noting that "Attack on Cloudbase" contains "very mild, fantasy" violence.
