Violent in sentence

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I have received violent death threats and abuse for daring to make work that centers fat people's bodies and lives and treats us as worthwhile human beings with valuable stories to tell.

Kim is unapologetically feminine in a world that is often cruel and violent to women who are too proud and too freeing.

Because in my research I found that people who really change the world, who change the way we live and the way we think, are the people who were met with initial and often violent rejections.

I also found men brutalized by racist violence, but who found a way to stop feeling like victims by becoming violent themselves.

Only a very small percent of those who have a mental illness are violent toward other people, but of those who die by suicide, it's estimated that about 75 to maybe more than 90 percent have a diagnosable mental health condition of some kind.

Is that altercation I had with the neighbor down the block going to turn into a violent episode that will end my life or my family's life?

This is the really important point: based on those numbers, it's totally possible that no one in the survey who defined it as violent holy war also said they support it.

These pictures are of a violent or sexual nature.

Standing on our own planet, you might think you’re just an observer of this violent ballet.

So when a police officer overreacts when he sees an unarmed black male and perceives him to be violent and dangerous, we are not necessarily dealing with an inherently bad cop.

But I like schlocky violent movies, but I'm for strict gun control.

We're a miserably violent species.

And there's another complication, which is, in addition to us being this miserably violent species, we're also this extraordinarily altruistic, compassionate one.

El Greco's painting, "The Purification of the Temple," in which Christ, in the center, in a sweeping and violent gesture, is expelling the sinners from the temple of prayer.

Twelve days before my 20th birthday, I was arrested for my role in a violent robbery attempt in lower Manhattan.

My friends Bill and Cory and Arocks, all in prison for violent crimes also, shared their words of wisdom with the young people as well, and received the sense of relevancy in return.

When I would call my family in Tehran during some of the most violent crackdowns of the protest, none of them dared discuss with me what was happening.

Galton thinks that if he combines photographs of violent criminals, he will discover the face of criminality.

So it led me into my work now, where we pose the question, "Why do people join violent extremist movements, and how do we effectively counter these processes?"

In the aftermath of horrible atrocities and attacks in places like Belgium, France, but all over the world, sometimes it's easier for us to think, "Well, these must be sociopaths, these must be naturally violent individuals.

And push factors are basically what makes you vulnerable to a process of radicalization, to joining a violent extremist group.

Now, push factors alone do not make you a violent extremist, because if that were the fact, those same factors would go towards a group like the Roma population, and they're not a violently mobilized group.

What are these violent extremist organizations offering that other groups are not offering?

So the rest I'd like to talk about some of the positive things and the new innovation in trying to prevent and counter violent extremism.

So preventative medicine is, how do we make it so you are naturally resilient to this process of radicalization, whereas that is going to be different if somebody is already showing a symptom or a sign of belonging to a violent extremist ideology.

This one is from Canada, and it's meant to create dialogues within a classroom setting, using storytelling, because violent extremism can be very hard to try to explain, especially to younger individuals.

These two examples show Christianne, who lost her son, who radicalized and died fighting for ISIS, and Daniel is a former neo-Nazi who was an extremely violent neo-Nazi, and they pose questions about their lives and where they're at and regret, and force a classroom to have a dialogue around it.

We see violent religious, national and ethnic disputes.

But the people making the strongest possible claims about ancient, timeless Hindu religion are dressed in brown shorts and white shirts while claiming, oddly, to be the original Aryan race, just like the violent Salafi jihadis who make their claims about their primordial religion while dressed in black military uniforms and wearing balaclavas.

Forced evictions are incredibly violent and, of course, unconstitutional.

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