Sentence examples for violent strain from inspiring English sources

Inventive partnering was made repellent by a violent strain of misogyny.

It is difficult to believe that his reference to an inherently violent strain in Islam was entirely accidental.

Yet if more of the Muslim world is now open to a newly intolerant and violent strain of Islam, no force has been more responsible than Saudi Arabia.

Its roots lie in an extreme and violent strain in Islam that emerged in the 18th century in opposition to what was seen by some Muslims as Ottoman decadence but has gained greater strength in the 20th.

Islamism in the Arab world now covers a wide spectrum; and its sensible end has fast been evolving from a radical, violent strain into a modern, outward-looking variant.

And yet scores, or hundreds, of people shoppers, shopkeepers, worshippers, government workers, college students, housewives, children, most of them Muslims, none of them guilty of anything more than having been born in the wrong country—are being murdered every day, blown to pieces, burned alive, shot to death, beheaded, in the name of an extremely violent strain of Islam.

Mr. Maazel's basic conception — which plays down cuteness in favor of more sophisticated, seductive and violent strains — remained unassailable.

Encountering young men involved in a burgeoning gay porn industry, his sexual appetite becomes more insistent and more violent, straining the sympathy of even the most liberal reader.

The first is between those who believe in tackling hardline Islamist views generally and those who want to concentrate on its violent strains.

Riyadh's principal ally, America, is now at war with Islamic terror, while Saudi Arabia has for years been the principal exporter and bankroller of radical Islam, including some of the most violent strains.

Today's conflict is a grinding civil war fuelled in equal parts by the more violent strains of Salafi Islam and a toxic cycle of never-ending revenge killing.