Sentence examples for violently resisting from inspiring English sources

What we are seeing here is abuse of a substance originally approved for one set of circumstances– people "violently resisting"– as a general tool to disperse crowds exercising their free speech rights nonviolently.

Nobody was violently resisting.

When police arrived, Oosterbroek became combative with officers, refusing to be subdued and violently resisting arrest.

At a rally outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization cruise missile base in Comsio, Sicily, Italian police arrested three people on charges of violently resisting orders to disperse.

The program Farfur hosts is pretty much like something you'd run into on PBS in the early afternoon, a colorful half hour of instructional songs on classic lessons like eating your vegetables, brushing your teeth before bed, and violently resisting the oppressive Zionist apartheid.

Pepper spray was in fact promoted specifically to be used for "incapacitating dangerous or violently resisting suspects".

Officials say some villagers violently resisted attempts to disperse them.

The Sentinelese people violently resist contact with outsiders.

"People almost violently resist taking a break," he said.

The second takes that notion further: some Jews actively and violently resisted the Nazi death regime.

Especially when I travel, something in me now violently resists certain kinds of commitment.