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I dislike stuff that supports violence.
Domestic violence is a serious problem.
Tom loathes violence.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
Television shows violence, which influences, above all, younger people.
There is almost no violence in that city.
We abhor violence.
I can't put up with his violence any longer.
Everywhere he went, he taught love, patience, and most of all, non-violence.
He believed that blacks could win their fight for equal rights without violence.
Don't resort to violence.
It is up to the government to take action on violence.
Korean mental hospitals have been compared to concentration camps. Patients are said to be treated like animals who are subjected to violence and maltreatment rather than therapy.
Violence is the last refuge of incompetence.
Cesar Chavez asked that strikers remain non-violent even though farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.
Violence isn't necessarily the best thing, but sometimes it's a solution.
The people were through with violence.
Can you justify the use of violence?
We should not resort to violence.
In Germany today, anti-violence rallies took place in several cities, including one near Hamburg where three Turks were killed in an arson attack on Monday.
You must never resort to violence.
We should appeal to reason instead of resorting to violence.
Gun makers have been able to escape responsibility for firearm violence.
Violence erupted all over the city because of the food shortages.
I hope they don't resort to violence to accomplish their goals.
Violence is the cancer of our society.
We must do away with violence.
It is sometimes acceptable to resort to violence.
Peace is not the absence of violence but the presence of justice.
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Don't resort to violence!
Violence was endemic.
Who would have thought that a hip hop song could lead to any violence?
No violence.
All of these degenerate characteristics check amazingly with the history of the dead man before us, whose life was one of brutality, of violence and murder.
Either we can surrender to an epidemic of crime and violence which will destroy our homes and our community, or we can give warning to the host of other gangsters and murderers that they are through.
Violence will do you no good.
A crew on a long voyage may easily fall into melancholy and violence.
No signs of violence.
No violence, I said. And I meant it.
Help the weak and be on guard against violence.
I read a book once that said women always look their best. in the peace and quiet that follows a storm of violence.
The chase after huge profits is followed closely by their inevitable partners corruption, violence and murder.
Gang violence flared up again in New York tonight when three men died in a spaghetti restaurant on the East Side.
A Shakespearean tragedy with blood and violence?
Violence is the only thing Arabs respect.
I don't want any violence.
No more violence.
I think you've perpetuated violence as a means of regaining what you've lost.
The only way to avoid violence is to turn my back on my cyborg body.
Beware, Vitelozzo, you have been warned of violence.
Without violence.
We now see that the stranger is capable of a furious outburst, and we'll see extreme violence, a portent of his obviously unstable and dangerous state.
Violence against the Jews might make the people forget their stomach.
Derek is just death and violence and kill.
You actually used violence in the army!
Why do humans use violence to resolve issues?
Instead of counting him out, the referee picked him up and rushed him out of the ring to save him from mob violence.
Wielded, I'd say, with a great deal of violence.
I'll do all I can to protect you against mob violence.
When confronted with violence and hoodlumism, the court has no alternative.
It's my duty to warn you, and this goes for the rest of the territory, that any further demonstration of lawlessness or threats of violence will force me to send for troops from St. Michael to maintain order.
The jaguar, in fact all the cat family were considered the personification of force and violence in their religious rights.
The decision was against violence, but there'll be another decision.
I tremble at the thought of such violence.
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There was no question of violence.
Like Pavlov's dog, Alex is being programmed to respond with nausea to violence and sex.
Does diversity authorize such brutal deaths and senseless violence against women simply because some supposedly traditional practice allows them to be married before their bodies are ready and denies them health care when they give birth?
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
When violence erupts in water-starved regions such as Darfur, Sudan, political leaders tend to view the problems in narrow political terms.
The famines in Ethiopia and the violence in Darfur suggest what can lie ahead.
So long as these ideas clash, violence will lurk.
Otherwise, it runs the risk of renewed chaos and violence, but this time in a more destabilized region, as Pakistan's current problems demonstrate.
In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.
The violence must stop.
The reformers believe that such reforms are the only way for Saudi Arabia to survive the threat of violence, instability, and national fragmentation that is looming on its horizon.
By jailing them, the regime has made it clear that violence is the only avenue open to those seeking change.
Like Samson in the temple of Gaza, he wishes to destroy himself in a public act of violence, taking as many people as possible with him.
The Spanish had grown so inured to acts of violence from Basque separatists that the murder of 191 people in Madrid by Islamist extremists in 2004 was met with remarkable sang-froid.
There was no question of violence. There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
A Clockwork Orange was accused of glorifying violence, and some of its scenes are still hard to watch.
But this benign prospect was undermined by the violence needed to maintain the Jewish state and enable the emergence of a Palestinian one.
Ultimately, a society that allows women to be brutalized will remain a breeding ground of generalized violence.
Over the past ten years, the AIHRC has received more than 19,000 complaints related to violence against women.
Violence against women in Afghanistan persists for many reasons.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread impunity for crimes of violence against women.
Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.
Thus, despite some progress, public and official sensitivity to violence against women is only slowly emerging.
Above all, perpetrators of violence against women should be prosecuted and tried under due process of law.
Until Afghanistan's leaders begin to address this problem seriously, our country will continue to bear the scar of violence against women on its face.
In short, more law, rather than less, is needed to help stem the violence.
Nigeria has been convulsed by religious violence triggered by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper months ago.
The violence began in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a protest by Muslims against the cartoons, with the Christian Association of Nigeria reporting at least 50 Christians killed.
Reprisals were swift, and at least 50 Muslims were killed in three days of violence in the southeastern (predominantly Christian) cities of Onitsha and Enugu.
The first calls for the world to deem as utterly unacceptable state violence that seeks to impose conformity and discipline.
Such violence is unjust on its face because it suppresses and intimidates both body and spirit.
Obviously, the legacy of colonialism - widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence - is a major factor in their current poverty.
For six months we have seen escalating violence and repression.