But these sudden bursts of violence test the nerves, judgment, stamina, humanity, character and common sense of news editors and reporters to the limit.
By comparing standardised regression coefficients from models with and without violence at presentation as covariate, we estimated the proportion of direct effects that were mediated by violence and tested their significance using bootstrapped standard errors and confidence intervals (using 1000 repetitions).
His presidency was marred by extremes of violence that tested Colombia's long-term commitment to democracy.
An escalation of intercommunal violence has tested the resolve of South Sudan, the world's newest country, and that of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS.
[When asked if women who have had sexual violence are tested for HIV].
For example, an individual already living with intimate partner violence who tests positive for HIV may be left with a choice between disclosing that diagnosis and risking being subjected to further violence as a result, or not disclosing that diagnosis and risking prosecution for not disclosing that status.
The respondents' knowledge on sexual violence was tested in their answers to the following 5 questions: circumstances that influence rape; complications of rape/CSA; medical care of rape/CSA survivors at health facility; perpetrators of rape/CSA; and the Sexual Offence Act of Tanzania, specifically, the minimum punishment for perpetrators of sexual violence.
It was the third day of an outburst of sectarian violence that is testing the pledges of Egypt's Islamist president to protect the country's Christian minority.
There were ominous signs, too, of communal strife and outbreaks of violence that are testing a government that has built its legitimacy on the promise of stability.
At least five people have been killed in fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in central Myanmar, residents and a hospital official said Thursday, in another sign of a resurgence of communal violence that is testing the country's fledgling democracy.
