Sentence examples for violent alteration from inspiring English sources

Revolution, in social and political science, a major, sudden, and hence typically violent alteration in government and in related associations and structures.

Here, the protests never escalated to violent altercations.

He successfully defended several black men who had violent altercations with the police.

Immigrants there had been complaining for months about increasingly violent altercations with white residents, but the police had ignored them.

Apparently, we got into violent altercations every time adults left us alone for five minutes – both reasonably assertive, clearly.

The behavior that prompted it — violent altercations, weapons possession, and so on — was a lot worse than the usual targets of broken-windows policing.

According to police statistics, the number of violent altercations is higher this year than it was a decade ago but lower than in the 1990s, when citywide crime was higher.

Christopher Wilson, vice president of marketing for Radica, said that Radica's market research showed "there had to be a struggle of good versus evil" for children to get involved in the game, but Radica "wanted to avoid violent altercations".

Four men died from gunfire in Brooklyn, and a fifth was near death after a fistfight in Manhattan, all the victims of violent altercations between Tuesday afternoon and sunrise yesterday, the police said.

The ex-husband of the niece's mother had a history of violent altercations with her and might have just discovered that the girl was not his biological child.

But I still wanted to understand why they do it, considering that it's illegal to ride dirt bikes in the streets of Baltimore, and dangerous -- there have been crashes and violent altercations between dirt bike riders and other vehicles and serious collisions with pedestrians, but no deaths recorded this year, according to the Baltimore Police Department.