Sentence examples for violence to put from inspiring English sources

The killings were accompanied by a degree of violence to put Sydney in the shade.

Israelis say he has used and is expected again to use violence to put pressure on Israel during the mood swings of the negotiations.

The Lebanese ambassador, Nawaf Salam, told reporters: "Measures ought to be taken to stop the violence, to put an end to the situation in Libya, to protect the civilians there".

We join you in urging Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate those who use threats of violence to put doctors and patients at risk, before another assassin's bullet strikes.

"The executions show that this government resorts to any kind of terror and violence to put down any challenge to its authority," said Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, which is based in New York.

It's akin to telling victims of gang violence to put themselves in better neighborhoods, or saying victims of home burglaries to have protected their home better.

This week's violence threatens to put paid to any remaining little shoots of optimism that, until then, things could only keep getting better.

But in a modern environment, Mr. Wright says, these impulses are often useless or counterproductive, more likely to perpetuate crime and violence than to put a stop to it.

World history gives us plenty of evidence to prove that peaceful evolution is better than bloody revolution, that it is easier to stir up violence than to put an end to it.

The Prime Minister announced moves to ban extremist organisations which cannot be proscribed under anti-terror laws because they stop short of advocating violence and to put curbs on individuals suspected of trying to radicalise young adults.

Moreover, celebrities recreate the developing world and the people who live in developing countries (including sexual violence victims/survivors), to put it/them in their proper place 'in the neoliberal international system through a performative perpetuation of historically embedded subjectivities' (Repo and Yrjölä 2011, p. 44; Mostafanezhad 2013).