Sentence examples for violent affairs from inspiring English sources

These strikes tend to be violent affairs.

Elections themselves are notoriously violent affairs in Jamaica.

The mass street demonstrations of last June have transformed into smaller but often violent affairs in recent months, dominated by aggressive Black Bloc groups.

THE protests in Frankfurt yesterday outside the offices of the European Central Bank may have had a "rent-a-mob" component, resembling previous violent affairs targeting G8 and World Trade Organisation meetings.

Generally these tended to be rather drunken and violent affairs, closer to an inter-village free-for-all with the ball an incidental curiosity among the aggressive consumption of mead and attempts to bludgeon, gouge and generally sort out one's near neighbours.

Early football games, whether collegiate or professional, were violent affairs in which concussions were a common event.

Plucking these morsels from their habitat, however, is often a violent affair that destroys other denizens of the deep.

It's the two men who embark on a quite violent affair, which starts with Edward accidentally crushing Pete's spectacles — love, obviously, is going to be blind.

Then, at the 18th, he hit a huge hook off the tee and, while his normal swing is always a fairly violent affair, it was nothing to the viciousness with which he swung the club back from his follow through.

Britain's semi-final against New Zealand was certainly a violent affair: Cullen was hit in the face and needed stitches mid-match; Georgia Twigg also took a blow to the head.

What Bush would call a "free Burma" will almost certainly be a messy, violent affair, and the good guys will soon be harder to tell from the bad guys than they were during the thrilling and tragic days of the Saffron Revolution.