Sentence examples for violent reminder from inspiring English sources

Running battles between young Hong Kong residents and police on Monday and Tuesday, in which 100 were injured, were a violent reminder of the simmering tensions in the city.

In a violent reminder that the truce has not yet come into force, Israeli troops killed three militants in Gaza early Monday as they were trying to plant explosives by the border fence.

PORTFOLIO about Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus's "The Sixties"... Mentions the violent end to the latest incarnation of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which was a violent reminder of what life was actually like thirty years ago... Avedon was one of the era's keenest observers.

But still, in a way reminiscent of how HIV/the Aids epidemic confirmed gay mens' worst fears about the pathological nature of their sexuality, working-class black South African lesbians now live with a graphically violent reminder of the unacceptability of their sexuality.

By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, August 9, 1999 P. 41 PORTFOLIO about Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus's "The Sixties"... Mentions the violent end to the latest incarnation of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which was a violent reminder of what life was actually like thirty years ago... Avedon was one of the era's keenest observers.

The killing has shaken up the Rastafarian community, acting as a violent reminder of the unease that simmers between the self-declared pilgrims and some of the local, mostly impoverished Ethiopians who remain bewildered by or even resentful of their presence.

For the wider European scene and the west, what has happened in Paris can only be a watershed and many will see it as a crude, violent, traumatic reminder of the fact we all still live in the post-9/11 era.

It reported that crime was rising; a series of violent robberies was another reminder that Hyde Park existed as a middle-class island in a sea of high-crime urban poverty.

These victims, many of whom are killed after attempting to leave a violent relationship, are a reminder of how for some women simply attempting to assert some control over their own lives can put them in life-threatening danger.

Such ancient gems, so beautiful, so peaceful... " Iraq, where in 2003 all of the American-led delusion and Middle Eastern collusion came to a head, is in its broken, violent state today a reminder of where so much small-mindedness can lead to: Shiite fighting Sunni; neighborhood fighting neighborhood.

Updated at 9.10pm GMT 7.37pm GMT Today Crimean Tatars mourned a man found beaten to death, a reminder that violent clashes have occurred since the beginning of the crisis in Crimea, and that the 12% minority group's general opposition to Russian rule could have serious consequences.