Sentence examples for violence thrust from inspiring English sources

Two others - 'Winter Light' and 'A Season of Regret' - tell the story of loners who have renounced violent pasts for academia only to have violence thrust upon them.

The pasture reflects that humility and is the best way to memorialize not the story of terror, victims and violence, but the story of a people who accept the tragedies that come as part of divine providence and absorb the pain without passing it on, without striking back even in how they memorialize acts of violence thrust upon them.

For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict.

As a result, the NFL faced harsh criticism for how they responded and the issue of domestic violence was thrust into a national spotlight.

The fierce fighting — and the threat that it could undo a long-term truce that has greatly helped to reduce the level of violence in Iraq — thrust the war back into the headlines and the public consciousness just as it had been receding behind a tide of economic concerns.

But Mouse's supernatural gifts give rise to violence, and she is thrust into a life she never planned for herself.

"In August 1966, a 14-year-old boy in Beijing is thrust into violence and chaos as Mao Ze-dong's Cultural Revolution begins to blaze across China.

He said he was very sensitive to the issues of gun violence, which have been thrust into the national debate since the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Hosni Mubarak was thrust by violence into the leadership of the Arab world's most populous country, and was forced out by a wave of popular protest.

When the would-be sophisticate Lenny seeks to impress Ruth with his stories of sexual violence, his hands are significantly thrust down his trousers.

But we may object-vocally, indignantly, rightfully at the specific substitute, at the uncritical way in which it is contrived, at the violence with which it is thrust into place, at the severity of its break with the past.