Sentence examples for violent altercations from inspiring English sources

Here, the protests never escalated to violent altercations.

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

A flattened nose and a depression on his left brow suggest "several violent altercations", the archaeologists say.

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

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

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

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

The polarisation of the club's stands into separate areas that are almost all white and stands that are ethnically mixed proved a backdrop for violent race altercations between the club's own fans.

In Alexandria, Mubarak supporters staged a furious counterprotest in a square that has seen protests for nine days, sparking violent arguments and altercations between rival groups.

The culture of police unaccountability and impunity is partly what fostered Wilson and Pantaleo's mindsets, and though that mindset doesn't always lead to death, it results in violent and unpleasant altercations far too often.

Sometimes, the altercations have turned violent.