Violence in sentence

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You see, they're much more likely to be victims of this violence than its perpetrators.

Some use and advocate violence.

But that violence is just the tip of the iceberg.

With the rise of jihadist violence, they began to receive threats to call off their events, which they refused to heed.

She's been in the post since 2008 and actually opened an office to investigate cases of violence against women, which she says is the most important area in her mandate.

We met violence with force and chaos with chaos.

We changed the skill set, reducing violence, not just responding to it.

Every day, all around us, we see the consequences of silence manifest themselves in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide and war.

In fact, these were a few insensitive comments which were made in the media by prominent people in response to sexual violence against women in general.

I went to a candlelight vigil where citizens gathered together to talk about the issue of sexual violence openly, and I recorded a lot of blogs in response to how worrying the situation was in India at that point.

In that community, substandard housing and food insecurity are the major conditions that we as a clinic had to be aware of, but in other communities it could be transportation barriers, obesity, access to parks, gun violence.

Let's take it this way: when you're busy solving mathematical equations, and you are memorizing poetry, you forget the violence that you witnessed back home.

The victims of war can hold the keys to lasting peace, and it's the refugees who can stop the cycle of violence.

Now, this is extremely significant, because this is the first time that a victim of domestic violence in Afghanistan was being represented by a lawyer, a law that's been on the books for years and years, but until Sahar, had never been used.

We are the number one champion in homicidal violence.

It's the people I meet who have lost someone they love to drug-related violence or prison or overdose or AIDS because our drug policies emphasize criminalization over health.

But since today is Tuesday, let me just say that legally regulating and taxing most of the drugs that are now criminalized would radically reduce the crime, violence, corruption and black markets, and the problems of adulterated and unregulated drugs, and improve public safety, and allow taxpayer resources to be developed to more useful purposes.

The way we show the world is going to change the way we see this world, and we live in a moment where the mass media are doing a terrible, terrible job at representing the world: violence, extremists, only spectacular events, only simplifications of everyday life.

For the last 20 years, I've been working in countries and cities ripped apart by conflict, violence, terrorism, or some insidious combination of all.

But I want you to take a closer look, and I think you'll see that the geography of violence is changing, because it's not so much our nation states that are gripped by conflict and crime as our cities: Aleppo, Bamako, Caracas, Erbil, Mosul, Tripoli, Salvador.

But when it comes to cities, the conversation is dominated by the North, that is, North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan, where violence is actually at historic lows.

And by South, I mean Latin America, Africa, Asia, where violence in some cases is accelerating, where infrastructure is overstretched, and where governance is sometimes an aspiration and not a reality.

I want to talk to you about four megarisks that I think will define fragility in our time, and if we can get to grips with these, I think we can do something with that lethal violence problem.

What's more, violence is moving south, to Latin America and the Caribbean, to parts of Central and Southern Africa, and to bits of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Now, if violence is re-concentrating geographically, it's also being reconfigured to the world's new topography, because when it comes to cities, the world ain't flat, like Thomas Friedman likes to say.

So urban geographers and demographers, they tell us that it's not necessarily the size or even the density of cities that predicts violence, no.

Now, it's not just youth that necessarily predicts violence.

They're statistically correlated, all those risk factors, with youth, and they tend to relate to increases in violence.

There's a reason why youthfulness and violence are the number one killers in this country.

Some cops are able to predict criminal violence before it even happens.

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