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For example, dietetic counsel would recommend that patients eat neither too much nor too little; sleep when necessary, but not excessively; exercise, but not violently; and control anger and stress.
That task will no longer be to spread -- violently or non-violently -- European religion or civilization, Europe’s inventions or its power.
Once that duty has been fulfilled, a logical person will understand that the Parthenon Marbles, long held by a former imperial power’s flagship museum, were violently severed from the rest of the Parthenon sculptures – an outrage against art and an unhealed scar inflicted by the British on the long-suffering Greek people.
In September 1991, the miners returned again to Bucharest and violently toppled the pro-reform government of Petre Roman (who is now the speaker of the Senate).
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime cracked down violently on the protesters, leading some military units to revolt.
It has so far been in vain that left and right wing governments have tried, by force or negotiations, to find a solution: the great majority of the population prefers to remain French, while the various nationalistic "families" are violently opposed, and one no longer really knows which of the successive act of violence are related to political revindications or to the Mafia.
Thailand’s political impasse, amid massive anti-democracy demonstrations, has hit world headlines, and elections have also been violently contested in Bangladesh.
While the regime gradually succeeded in violently quelling the momentum of the opposition Green Movement, the country’s deep internal rifts – both among political elites as well as between government and society – are far from being reconciled.
Today, against the backdrop of the North Arakan Muslim League’s demand for annexation to Pakistan and the Mujahid Party’s effort to secure an autonomous state within Rakhine, a separatist Arakanese Independence Movement has been actively, and often violently, pursuing independence.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn – often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
Even now, Aristide says that he will share power with the opposition, but the opposition says no.Aristide's opponents know that US right-wingers will stand with them to bring them violently to power.
Likewise, Yugoslavia’s multi-ethnic experiment ended violently, following the collapse of its dictatorship.
Moreover, Pakistan’s substantial Shia population might join the ranks of the violently disaffected if the military backed the Saudis in a sectarian war.
Throughout the campaign, Israeli leaders competed over who would deal more firmly (read: violently) with the Palestinians.
The language Haider and many leaders of his party have used over the years is informed by the same racist and anti-Semitic discourse that gave birth to Nazism: in the specific Austrian context, it is violently anti-Slav as well as anti-Turkish.
Their way of dominating the more sophisticated urban elites was to oppress them violently and rebuild the cities according to their own grandiose dreams.
They were violently dispersed, with loss of life, by the Washington police and the US Army under General Douglas MacArthur.
As the brutal crackdown on and following June 3-4 played out, political freedom was being won in Central Europe – first in Poland and Hungary, and then, beginning that fall, in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and, albeit violently and rather undemocratically, Romania.
If conflict-related deaths continue to rise – owing to the eruption of new armed conflicts or the escalation of existing ones – and countries’ homicide rates start to regress toward those of the worst-performing states in their respective regions, over a million people will be dying violently each year by 2030.
The Nicaraguan crisis erupted last April, when paramilitary groups loyal to the government – so-called grupos de choque – violently crushed a small protest against just-announced pension reforms.
When there are movements for self-determination, they are usually suppressed – sometimes violently – and their leaders are accused of “treasonable felony” (itself a colonial artifact).
After Libya’s then-ruler Muammar el-Qaddafi violently quelled a popular uprising in his country in early 2011, for example, the League suspended Libya from the organization and actively supported Qaddafi’s ouster by NATO and Libyan rebel forces later that year.
“Police Suppress Violent Protests” is obviously a very different headline from “Police Violently Suppress Protests,” and neither sends the same message as “Protesters and Police Clash.”
Second, some governments – most recently in Belarus and Nigeria – have tried to quash protests violently.
Floyd’s death followed many previous police killings of unarmed African-Americans who were not behaving violently.
And again hope and despair, alternately chafing the old sores, lacerated the wounds of her tortured and violently fluttering heart.
Over the iron flooring the porters were violently rolling laden trams.
He would not leave his picking, he dealt great strokes which shook him violently between the two rocks, like a fly caught between two leaves of a book and in danger of being completely flattened.
These scamps of twelve to fifteen years shouted abominable words to each other, and to warn them it was necessary to yell still more violently.
And she went off, violently dragging Lénore and Henri who were occupied in picking up nut-shells from the gutter and examining them.
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