Sentence examples for violence to memory from inspiring English sources
There were those who did violence to memory and reason by comparing the Israel Defense Forces (who behaved with extraordinary tact and compassion) to Nazis, and their own plight to the destruction of European Jewry.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has said he wants to address gun violence while the memory of the elementary school massacre is still fresh.
According to researcher, C. Sarah Soh, author of "The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan," the comfort women system was viewed as a way "to control the troops through regulated access to sex".
"Writing a novel is like spelunking".: Chang-rae Lee talks about violence, memory, and the challenges of writing about trauma.
Altogether this has been the worst spasm of violence in recent memory.
They refused to leave the House floor until a vote took place, in the biggest congressional mobilization around gun violence in recent memory.
Although Barris's early life was punctuated by police violence, his ugliest memory, Barris said, was something a cop told him when he was sixteen: "You know, no one will care if you die".
Following widespread chaos in the capital throughout Monday night, described by Scotland Yard as the worst UK urban violence in living memory, a newly-returned David Cameron ordered 16,000 police onto the city's streets, also granting officers the option of using plastic bullets, which have never been previously fired on the British mainland.
It sparked some of the worst street violence in living memory.
