Synonym: anger, force, fury, intensity, passion, rage, vehemence. Similar words: violent, insolence, malevolence, equivalence, ambivalence, obsolescence, viol, viola. Meaning: [‘vaɪələns] 
n. 1. an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) 2. the property of being wild or turbulent 3. a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc..
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1. Police records attest to his long history of violence.
2. They were substituting violence for dialogue.
3. The world people preach down terrorism and violence.
4. There’s too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
5. Extremists were openly advocating violence.
6. He slammed the door with violence.
7. The film is full of mindless violence.
8. The violence was far from one-sided .
9. Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence.
10. A moment of mindless violence snuffed out his life.
11. Family tensions and conflicts may lead to violence.
12. Delegates wrestled with the problems of violence and sanctions.
13. The violence in the movie revolted me.
14. This election campaign has been characterized by violence.
15. A civilised leader must eschew violence.
16. The jailer did violence to prisoners.
17. A civilized leader must eschew violence.
18. I didn’t like the way the film glorified war/violence.
19. Violence between the two sides has been steadily escalating.
20. The movie contains scenes of violence and bloodletting.
21. There has been sporadic violence downtown.
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22. The group does not advocate the use of violence.
23. Watching violence on TV makes some children more aggressive.
24. They appealed to the protesters to refrain from violence.
25. There is a danger that these films legitimize violence.
26. The film glorifies war and violence.
27. Television violence can encourage aggression in children.
28. Hail fell with such violence that it broke windows.
29. We should prevent the occurrence of physical violence.
30. These misguided people go around preaching up violence.
More similar words: violent, insolence, malevolence, equivalence, ambivalence, obsolescence, viol, viola, violin, violate, violation, malevolent, benevolent, malevolently, equivalency, tolerance, fence, hence, commence, essence, sequence, absence, science, eloquence, sapience, sentence, patience, credence, audience, presence.
Definition of Violence
the use of physical force to harm someone
Examples of Violence in a sentence
The violence continued as more and more protestors were beaten by police in the streets.
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Violence has left over 225 people dead in Chicago just this year.
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To reduce gun violence, lawmakers are asking for stricter laws on who can own firearms.
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Violence continues to happen downtown with several people being beat up and robbed just this week.
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I am a fan of the movie, but the violence and bloodshed in some of the scenes make it bad for children to watch.
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Violence in a sentence
Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word violence in a sentence.
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The dispute fell into violence; R.
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What has violence ever accomplished?
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There was a wave of street violence.
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Threats of violence and lawsuits persisted.
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Stuart did not escape violence in the ECAHA.
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Army National Guardsmen stopped the violence.
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Some reviewers felt the violence was excessive.
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The crisis escalated into violence in late April.
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Political violence became a part of this warfare.
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It was noted for its violence and sexual content.
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The results had been labour militancy and violence.
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The show’s frequent use of violence was criticized.
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And that was the psychological violence of slavery.
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Suspected witches are often subject to mob violence.
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In any case, they reacted swiftly and with violence.
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General violence threatened to break out in Pittsburgh and the city was blockaded.
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This did not stop the violence there, which broke into Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
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Clarence 13X also instructed his followers to try to prevent violence and looting.
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The next morning, she was found drowned in a pit with little evidence of violence.
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Mass protests had been quelled by 8 July, although sporadic violence was reported.
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Unsure how many Texians he actually faced, Piedras was eager to defuse the conflict without violence.
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Some of the film’s sexual content and violence was deemed too extreme by the studio, and was removed.
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The dispute soon descended into violence, and Bonville and Courtenay ravaged each other’s properties.
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This glorification of violence within mainstream American culture is the central theme of the record.
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The early 1980s witnessed an escalation of violence across the country, and many predicted civil war.
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The violence turned public opinion against Dow, and he was denounced in newspapers across the nation.
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As the American Civil War neared, violence spread into Missouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents.
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The article expressed great sadness at the toll drugs and violence are taking on the black community.
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Extrajudicial violence against black residents was so common that it seldom was covered by newspapers.
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Evans initially supported violence against minorities, remembering a lynching he witnessed as a child.
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He lost Louisiana and Georgia, primarily due to Ku Klux Klan violence against African-American voters.
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As the game neared completion, FormGen contacted id with concerns over its violence and shock content.
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The bitter campaign was marked by violence, often set off by provocative language from the candidates.
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In Birmingham, SNYC experienced both successes and failures, as well as arrests and official violence.
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In contrast, Pralayan’s play explored gender inequality and domestic violence instead of unemployment.
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Pierce of the Deseret News summed up the series as «full of violence, questionable messages, violence and more violence».
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He wanted to avoid violence, stating that «if at all possible, we want the revolution to be peaceful and reconciliatory».
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Cuse spoke out against legislation to curb television violence, saying that politicians were «chasing a false objective».
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Southern violence, on the other hand, took the form of individual incidents of lynchings and other extrajudicial actions.
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The Red Shirts used violence and fraud to create Democratic majorities that did not exist, and give Hampton the election.
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The violence of the attack reminded the public of Thomas Becket’s martyrdom, and public opinion turned against Longchamp.
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At the same time, the boys must also deal with the increasing sectarian violence that is starting to extend into Karrada.
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The stories are thematically linked with motifs of frustration, disillusionment, violence, and issues of ethnic identity.
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The election was marked by an unusually low level of crime: only one ballot box theft and a negligible amount of violence.
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The Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 involved several days of work stoppage and violence in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1877.
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When endorsing violence, he did so because he saw no alternative, and was always pragmatic about it, perceiving it as a means to get his opponent to the negotiating table.
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In 2018, Pastor Théodore Mugalu, a leader of Branham’s followers in the Democratic Republic of Congo encouraged his followers to violence against Catholics in his country.
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Jones asked the Duke to intervene but relations remained poor; in 1888 Rowe blocked the telegraph along the Tramway, and in one meeting Jones and Rowe threatened violence.
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The tale also «contested how popular literature employed colonial violence to provide a model of and justification for its continuation in the name of national expansion».
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As part of conditions for the cessation of violence, all of Batavia’s ethnic Chinese were moved to a pecinan, or Chinatown, outside of the city walls, now known as Glodok.
Synonyms for violence
Another way to better understand how a word can be used is to examine what synonyms it has, and how these synonyms can be used. For example, the word violence has the following synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness and force.
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violence — перевод на русский
/ˈvaɪələns/
Derek is just death and violence and kill.
У Дерека — просто смерть, насилие и убийство.
You actually used violence in the army!
Как можно применять насилие в армии!
He doesn’t mean violence any more than the rest of us.
Он настроен на насилие, не больше остальных.
I love him, señor, but he treats me like a slave. He drinks, he stays out late with other women and when he comes home, he beats me. Love and violence walk hand in hand, señorita.
я так люблю его, но он смотрит на меня как на служанку он пьет, проводит время с другими женщинами а когда возвращается домой, он избивает меня любовь и насилие идут рука об руку сеньорита
No, he said love and violence work hand in hand. So then I got a little desperate. And what came up?
нет, он сказал любовь и насилие идут рука об руку тогда я сделала последнюю попытку и что же ты сказала?
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— Violence is so…
Такая жестокость.
It was more a kind of envy but so full, total, absolute and absorbing that i knew it would lead me to violence.
Это было скорее что-то вроде зависти, но такой полной, такой законченной, такой абсолютной, всепоглощающей, что она могла легко сойти за жестокость.
Violence is totally alien to people on this planet.
Жестокость инопланетян к людям на этой планете.
We have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man-— his negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence, and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion,
Нам представелась редкая возможность рассмотреть человеческое сознание, или ислледовать, выражаясь по-земному, роль добра и зла в человеке-— его отрицательную сторону, которую вы называете враждебность, жадность, жестокость, и его положительную сторону, которую люди Земли обозначают как сострадание,
And whether the violence will stop or whether it will last forever.
И либо жестокость прекратится либо останется навсегда.
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And if you try to use violence a signal from Lady Beltham will activate my bodyguards.
Если попробуешь, почувствуешь силу которой обладает леди Бельтам. Моя охрана будет рядом.
So, you’d use physical violence, would you?
Так, ты будешь использовать физическую силу?
Seeing the merchants in the temple, Our Lord used violence,… and chased them out by beating them.
Увидев торговцев в храме, наш Господь применил силу, и разогнал их плетьми.
Even Spock felt the violence of her jealousy.
Даже Спок чувствовал силу ее зависти.
Don’t force me to use violence, now!
Не вынуждай меня применять силу!
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«Proud men have risen up against me, and men of violence seek my life…
«Поднялись надменные и жестокие ищут убить меня…
Violence has increased in all. Teaching people that these things God gives them.
Жестокие люди уже везде, и они учат бедных, что сегодняшняя ситуация не дана Господом Богом.
Like all men of violence.
Как и все жестокие люди.
Dunn’s got a history of violence.
За Данном уже числятся жестокие нападения.
Surprise, speed, violence of action.
Сюрприз, скорость, жестокие удары.
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Show him and everyone else like him That unprovoked violence has a price,
Ему и подобным ему нужно преподать урок о цене неспровоцированной агрессии!
I see you’re not only depressive with a tendency for violence, but you’re also not very smart.
Я вижу, что ты не только депрессивен, и склонен к агрессии, так ты еще и не достаточно умен.
The Jaridians carry within them the demon of violence, which we removed from our species.
Джаридианцы — носители демона агрессии, которого наша раса изжила.
What you call the demon of violence, is the willingness to fight your own battles.
То, что ты зовешь «демоном агрессии» — это готовность бороться за дело, которое считаешь правым.
I’m up in the law now, but it feels good to get my violence on.
Я в законе теперь, но, черт возьми, чувствую себя хорошо позволяя моей агрессии выйти наружу.
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As in Seattle, Prague and Geneva, it is feared there may be acts of violence prompted by the more radical anti-capitalist groups who accuse the IMF and the World Bank of being used by corporations in order to exploit child labor, sell manipulated food and destroy the planet’s resources.
Как и в Сиэтле, Праге и Женеве полиция опасается проведения насильственных акций провоцируемых радикально настроенными антикапиталистическими группами обвиняющими МВФ и Мировой банк в содействии корпорациям по использованию детского труда, продаже генно-модифицированных продуктов и уничтожению ресурсов планеты
His injuries are consistent with violence.
Его ранения говорят о насильственных действиях.
Not unless you’ve got a history of violence I don’t know about.
Если только у тебя есть история насильственных действий.
No. I have a zero-tolerance policy for violence, of any kind.
Я не позволю вам никаких насильственных мер по отношению к ним.
And Willis had motive, means, and the track record of violence.
А у Уиллиса есть мотив, возможность и послужной список насильственных действий.
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«for robbery with violence.»
«за грабёж с применением насилия.»
That’s clever Robbery with violence.
Это умно. Ограбление с применением насилия.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
Грабеж с применением насилия.
You’re out this time after having served eight years for robbery with violence.
На этот раз вы вышли после отбывания 8 летнего срока за грабеж с применением насилия.
We were treated with violence.
Нас лечили с применением насилия.
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Well, I had to threaten the charge nurse with physical violence.
Пришлось угрожать дежурной медсестре физической расправой, и койки нашлись.
She threatened her family with violence.
Она пригрозила своим домашним расправой.
Did he threaten violence against the company?
Он угрожал расправой компании?
No one reported witnessing him being violent, and there’s no way to prove that he threatened you with violence.
Никто не признался в том что был свидетелем его ярости, и нет способа доказать что он угрожал тебе расправой.
— You’re gonna give Muhammad to gingers instead of us just because they are threatening you with violence?
«начит, хотите выдать ћуххамеда рыжим, лишь потому что они вам угрожают расправой?
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Now remember all of you; no violence unless the Sensorites start it first.
запомните, никакого применения силы, пока сенсориты не начнут первыми.
I mean, this guy gets off on violence.
То есть, без применения силы этот парень не может кончить.
And normally I don’t condone violence.
И обычно я против применения силы.
You have a history of violence, Kurt.
За вами числится история применения силы, Курт.
Violence isn’t the answer.
Применение силы не выход
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There was no physical violence.
Ќе было никакого физического насили€.
My lord, although we left a little of our pride back in the wood, there is some capital to be gained from the affair. Beside the violence and the tragedy, it has a humour.
ѕовелитель, хоть мы и оставили нашу гордость, мы кое-что получили. ѕомимо насили€ и трагедий — это веселье.
Your reputation is that you control your business through violence.
¬ы известны тем, что управл€ете своим делом при помощи насили€?
So much violence.
«ак много насили€.
Georgy was a boy … who left us too soon … cut down by violence the world had chosen.
√еоргий был молодым человеком, который оставил нас слишком рано, из-за насили€ в этом мире.
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For peace, joy and love to exist, we should control violence
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Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence
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The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family members, and they tend not to be one-shot deals
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She thought the wizard’s modification called the Instinct would have prevented this, but it only prevented violence done by one human on another
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He had not used violence on her, it became obvious she would have to use violence on him to get the wheel or throttle out of his hands
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There is violence because we are shown daily that the perpretors, who are powerful pillars of the society, examples of success in making money through means usually foul
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And have connections to move freely after indulging in violence
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Violence leads to more and worse violence
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As I said, never underestimate the combination of fear, adrenaline, violence and shock
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tained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of
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«Why don’t we talk about where we are instead of this, why don’t we discuss the philosophy of this civilization, a civilization that exists without violence and coercion
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Fear equals hatred, equals violence
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Moses has defied all odds and drawn nothing but strength from the violence and fear around him
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Out of the corner of my eye, through my own tears, I could just about see that he was sweating, that he too was breathing hard, that he was locked into the violence of the moment
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He knew the culture of violence was born from the struggle to throw off the Americans, but that was four hundred fifty years ago now, get over it
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As far as external stimuli are concerned I remember little other than a dull ache of occasional electric light and the return of Smiler’s simple, direct and low-level violence
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I was an addict strung out on violence and Smiler’s dealing in opiate thuggery
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Over the next few weeks, as the procedures and the rituals bedded down, as Robbie and Mick and the other guards who rotated on shift, mixed bonhomie with casual insults and violence, I started to listen and to watch
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We existed in a world of intermittent but minor-scale violence accompanied by weird and unexpected instances of compassion
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This system that bases itself off of violence and greed is being opposed by a man from Nazareth
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Jesus claims that this entire system that is based off of violence, greed, isolation, and we’re-in-and-you’re-out-mentality is over
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«They don’t perfect their strength and coordination with violence?»
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they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
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I stand and direct the crowds that surge through the shallows of our old world on waves of violence
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While Kassidorians never use violence on each other, they have no such reluctance when it comes to hand-to-hand combat with other species, so all other species have learned to give humans some respect
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The evidence is in the fact that the nations are already stirring into greater degrees of anti-Semitism and violence and wickedness
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People have lived ten centuries with the Instinct now, no one could cope with even the threat of violence
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Anxiety, avarice and violence are evident everywhere in our so-called technologically sophisticated cultures, but no one seems to think of the children
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violence of this sudden attack was terrifying, and when
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a brave man when it came to the realities of physical violence, but
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to this earth, with all its trouble, violence, and war
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There is altogether too much of isolation and violence,
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It’s a small and cold world really, depressing with violence and pestilence
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Stunned, Chas lay on the floor for a moment before leaping to his feet and throwing himself at Mickey, his face a vicious mask of violence
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Since his violence of the night before, she was uncomfortable with him
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To the untrained man, to the casually aggressive, violence is a blunt instrument wielded on a whim and a skin full, but to Alex it is a tool employed with the loving care of a master craftsman
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Maggie is the first to come to her senses, and although she is winded, she is able to shake off the intoxication of violence
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The veneer of affection, the camaraderie of violence, of shared experience, is ripped away from the carcass of their relationship
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competition and violence he was a poet
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Maybe they would look a little different and her tales said there was violence there like in the Energy Age or Troubled Times
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threat of violence must have tipped the balance for
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By finally resorting to violence after all! It’s all about spilling blood in the end, isn’t it?” Justice said, his smile growing
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They had violence, criminality and interpersonal force
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19But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence
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can’t stand the sight of violence
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Threats of violence often are felt by the child as a destruction of
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their rages and violence
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At least back then we only had to worry about violence from the priests and not molesting
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Thoughts are often of violence
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They rule by force and violence, their flesh is still ephemeral
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In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamour, and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage
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The workmen, accordingly, very seldom derive any advantage from the violence of those tumultuous combinations, which, partly from the interposition of the civil magistrate, partly from the superior steadiness of the masters, partly from the necessity which the greater part of the workmen are under of submitting for the sake of present subsistence, generally end in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders
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He was untidy, played music at strange hours, fired guns inside, made smelly experiments; in addition, there was an atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London
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There were always many incidents of violence, rape,
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«Something they used to have in the Troubled Times,» Luray said, «guys who were sent by a slavemaster to do violence to slaves
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It has accordingly been the effect of violence and artifice
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it is a theory of violence
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Violence, crime, terror are not accidental in the history
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In those unfortunate countries, indeed, where men are continually afraid of the violence of their superiors, they frequently bury or conceal a great part of their stock, in order to have it always at hand to carry with them to some place of safety, in case of their being threatened with any of those disasters to which they consider themselves at all times exposed
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It seems to have been a common practice among our ancestors during the violence of the feudal government
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Were the Americans, either by combination, or by any other sort of violence, to stop the importation of European manufactures, and, by thus giving a monopoly to such of their own countrymen as could manufacture the like goods, divert any considerable part of their capital into this employment, they would retard, instead of accelerating, the further increase in the value of their annual produce, and would obstruct, instead of promoting, the progress of their country towards real wealth and greatness
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“Just because I don’t believe in violence, doesn’t mean I don’t believe in protecting the ones I love
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Each of those different branches of trade, however, is not only advantageous, but necessary and unavoidable, when the course of things, without any constraint or violence, naturally introduces it
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The rapine and violence which the barbarians exercised against the ancient inhabitants, interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country
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Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own
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If they were turned out illegally by the violence of their master, the action by which they obtained redress was extremely imperfect
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Towards the end of his reign, his son Lewis, known afterwards by the name of Lewis the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violence of the great lords
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Order and good government, and along with them the liberty and security of individuals, were in this manner established in cities, at a time when the occupiers of land in the country, were exposed to every sort of violence
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After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before
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They still continued to make war according to their own discretion, almost continually upon one another, and very frequently upon the king; and the open country still continued to be a scene of violence, rapine, and disorder
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But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about
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“Historically, you human beings have celebrated great achievements in many areas of development, yet all the while have suffered every kind of difficulty, treachery, and unspeakable aggression and violence that could be imaginable on our planet
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No one knew how many casualties their city would endure by the end and if Cyrodiil would itself remain physically untouched by violence creeping down from the north
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“Of course I do, friend! I care about any who have been struck by this sort of violence
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In the same manner as the latter inflame their workmen, to attack with violence and outrage the proposers of any such regulation; to attempt to reduce the army would be as dangerous as it has now become to attempt to diminish, in any respect, the monopoly which our manufacturers have obtained against us
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy : but the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit, of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot, perhaps, be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves
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Being nighbours, they are necessarily enemies, and the wealth and power of each becomes, upon that account, more formidable to the other; and what would increase the advantage of national friendship, serves only to inflame the violence of national animosity
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jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity, and the traders of both countries have announced, with all the passionate confidence of interested falsehood, the certain ruin of each, in consequence of that unfavourable balance of trade, which, they pretend, would be the infallible effect of an unrestrained commerce with the other
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Even though violence has increased in rape, molestation, break ins, racial
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My heart and prayers and blessings go out to all in any situations of violence of the mind body soul
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Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of the present or that of the two preceding centuries, of several of which we have pretty exact accounts, will find, I believe, that a dearth never has arisen from any combination among the inland dealers in corn, nor from any other cause but a real scarcity, occasioned sometimes, perhaps, and in some particular places, by the waste of war, but in by far the greatest number of cases by the fault of the seasons; and that a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconveniencies of a dearth
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Instead of making profit upon such occasions, therefore, he is often in danger of being utterly ruined, and of having his magazines plundered and destroyed by their violence
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They just seemed to keep it all to themselves though all of these years, you know? I know I heard the stories of violence, of riots after the war
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The Yoga Sutras teach that violence is often a response to fear
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By giving in to violence, you are building an impenetrable wall around yourself, and making it more and more difficult to let go of the hold that self-centered self has on your attention
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Suffices to say that there’s been some violence nearby and he appeared shortly after it
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naturally exercised there with more than ordinary violence
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The law, so far as it gives some weak protection to the slave against the violence of his master, is likely to be better executed in a colony where the government is in a great measure arbitrary, than in one where it is altogether free
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In the Roman history, the first time we read of the magistrate interposing to protect the slave from the violence of his master, is under the emperors
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The violence of these regulations, therefore, seems to have affected neither the quantity nor the quality of the annual produce of wool, so much as it might have been expected to do (though I think it probable that it may have affected the latter a good deal more than the former); and the interest of the growers of wool, though it must have been hurt in some degree, seems upon the whole, to have been much less hurt than could well have been imagined
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The disorders in the government of Indostan have been supposed to render a like precaution necessary, even among that mild and gentle people; and it was under pretence of securing their persons and property from violence, that both the English and French East India companies were allowed to erect the first forts which they possessed in that country
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There are two very easy and effectual remedies, however, by whose joint operation the state might, without violence, correct whatever was unsocial or disagreeably rigorous in the morals of all the little sects into which the country was divided
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When the authorized teachers of religion propagate through the great body of the people, doctrines subversive of the authority of the sovereign, it is by violence only, or by the force of a standing army, that he can maintain his authority
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But should the sovereign attempt irregularly, and by violence, to deprive any number of clergymen of their freeholds, on account, perhaps, of their having propagated, with more than ordinary zeal, some factious or seditious doctrine, he would only render, by such persecution, both them and their doctrine ten times more popular, and therefore ten times more troublesome and dangerous, than they had been before
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The violence which the French government usually employed in order to oblige all their parliaments, or sovereign courts of justice, to
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For though management and persuasion are always the easiest and safest instruments of government as force and violence are the worst and the most dangerous; yet such, it seems, is the natural insolence of man, that he almost always disdains to use the good instrument, except when he cannot or dare not use the bad one
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But there is no order of men, it appears I believe, from the experience of all ages, upon whom it is so dangerous or rather so perfectly ruinous, to employ force and violence, as upon the respected clergy of an established church
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with both hands and with great violence swung
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And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth