Violent in sentence

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But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the death of two mayors.

Brazil's northeast state of Pernambuco is one of the nation's most violent regions.

Jail in America is a terrifying, dehumanizing and violent experience.

Murray and Herrnstein also suggest that a lack of critical intelligence explains the prominence of violent crime in poor African-American communities.

Now, you probably don't need me to tell you about the events of last summer, where London and the UK saw the worst sustained period of violent looting and arson for over twenty years.

So I want you to use your imaginations, thinking of these wall-high objects, some of them 10 meters wide, depicting lavish court scenes with courtiers and dandies who would look quite at home in the pages of the fashion press today, thick woods with hunters crashing through the undergrowth in pursuit of wild boars and deer, violent battles with scenes of fear and heroism.

I'd like to share three sets of examples, starting with adapting to violent storms and floods.

In contrast, countries that lack a strong sense of nationalism, like Congo and Somalia and Afghanistan, tend to be violent and poor.

And so there's now a lot of different violent jihads all over the world.

The notion of violent jihad in which more Muslims are killed than any other kind of people is already thoroughly discredited.

Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common understanding is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.

But galaxies are very violent places, and things can be spun out of orbit.

We now have in the violent Horn of Africa pastoralists planning their grazing to mimic nature and openly saying it is the only hope they have of saving their families and saving their culture.

I remind you that I am talking about most of the world's land here that controls our fate, including the most violent region of the world, where only animals can feed people from about 95 percent of the land.

You know, you want to make 50 million dollars selling violent video games to kids, go for it.

And what we haven't seen is this, say, race to the bottom of your violent pornography kind of examples.

Herschel helped by making tidal observations off the coast of South Africa, and, as he complained to Whewell, he was knocked off the docks during a violent high tide for his trouble.

From my seat, I was looking up at a stone town on a hilltop, bright in the noontime sun, when from behind there was a great bang, as loud and violent as a bomb.

So in order to understand the radicalization process, we met with dozens of former members of violent extremist groups.

And because violent extremism isn't confined to any one language, religion or ideology, the Redirect Method is now being deployed globally to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.

The stuff that tends to upset parents is the stuff that has kind of violent or sexual content, right?

And this is why, I think, jealousy doesn't just provoke us to do violent things or illegal things.

I'm not saying they're not violent, but what I am saying is that even though you will read that they are the most violent of all, when you count, when you do the body count, they're actually all the same.

It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you're grateful, you're not fearful, and if you're not fearful, you're not violent.

He was bringing peace to a divided and violent South Africa, one man with an unbelievable sense of his humanity.

The process of the birth of a new solar system and the growth of planets can be a violent and messy business.

And I want you to notice how the same mechanical structure can, at one point, just by the way it moves, seem gentle and caring and in the other case, seem violent and confrontational.

So we went from doing low-level drug crimes that were outside our building to doing cases of statewide importance, on things like reducing violence with the most violent offenders, prosecuting street gangs, gun and drug trafficking, and political corruption.

Less than five percent of all arrests are for violent crime.

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