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were violently

adverb

In a violent manner.

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At least 18 protesters were violently arrested.

She is blurred, as if she were violently recoiling from him.

Two middle-aged women had died during the night, and three men were violently ill.

Reporters, diplomats and Chinese activists who tried to visit Mr. Chen were violently repelled by guards.

The press were violently against it, mainly because of the cost.

Often they were violently manhandled by the police and roughs in the crowds.

It might be like the Vietnam war: some people were violently against it, some people were violently against the people who were against it, but I never met anybody who was for it".

The secular clergy were violently ejected from Winchester and some other places; Oswald gradually replaced them with monks at Worcester.

Small protests in the capital on Tuesday and Wednesday were violently dispersed by the authorities, who arrested scores of demonstrators.

Trends that were violently disrupted cannot merely be projected, and planners do not have the power of prophecy.

Mr. Gbagbo's thugs and militant Young Patriots were violently opposed to any Western influence, which also meant foreign journalists.

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