Sentence examples for violent imposition from inspiring English sources

He is smiling, courteous, but essentially shorn of humor; his movements, though as careful and unhurried as a surgeon's, are bent not on the relief of pain but on its violent imposition; and his idea of fun is to weigh a man's life — should he perish, should he survive — on the toss of a coin.

I (and the vast majority of Muslims) detest ISIS and their vicious and violent imposition of their misunderstanding of Islam on the world.

And those who would object that Southerners can choose today whether to be Americans or confederates (who is stopping them, after all?) should respect the moral burden that comes from the historic choice to use force to subjugate the South - for whether that subjugation was justified does not change the fact that the method used to eliminate slavery was nevertheless one of violent imposition.

Such violent impositions helped the conflict to survive the dictatorship.

During the Industrial Revolution, the response of workers to the automation of their labour – hence, the loss of their livelihood – was understandably resentful and often violent: think of the Luddites, who opposed the imposition of power looms in the textile industry by forming militia groups to break the machines and burn down the mills.

The Nigerian police fired on rioters today in the city of Kaduna, where violent clashes began on Monday between Muslims who support the imposition of Islamic law and Christians who oppose it.

The school year at UCSB wrapping up, Leighton is returning to Bangkok this summer -- where who knows? -- this week's imposition of martial law may give way to a violent civil conflict.

In modern times, violent conflict between Iraq and its neighbors has placed political impositions on the national discourse that distort Iraqi historical memory and contribute to the difficulty of establishing a Baghdadi literary canon.

Beyond that, Palestinians may be exhausted from the two intifadas — the second one, in the last decade, extremely violent — that ended with the Israeli construction of the security fence and the imposition of increasingly strict restrictions on movement throughout the West Bank.

That's what lies behind the modern right's fondness for violent rhetoric: many activists on the right really do see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty.This is just silly isn't it?

That's what lies behind the modern right's fondness for violent rhetoric: many activists on the right really do see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty.