What's the difference between bloodletting and violence?

Bloodletting


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reference is also made to oxygen therapy, depletion management (bloodletting and-or diuretics, and their possible mechanisms.
  • (2) It is a microcosm of the region’s maladies and the trauma they have wrought on civilian lives – there are people here who have been wounded in sectarian bloodletting, shelling, airstrikes, occupation and crackdowns by dictators.
  • (3) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (4) Far beyond Egypt , the Cairo bloodletting also highlights the uneven progress of the wider Arab spring following the lighting of the spark by an angry and desperate young man who burned himself to death in Tunisia in December 2010.
  • (5) Experiments on test samples of minke and sel whales showed that bloodletting with ice water made the densities of isoelectro-focused bands thinner, although species identification was still possible by using the inside part of muscles.
  • (6) Over the past two years, it has been a commonplace among both Sunni political figures and advisers close to Maliki to repeat that neither side has an interest in a return to the darkest and most terrible days of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting that nightly saw bodies stuffed into drains, abandoned on the rubbish tips, people – where they congregated – slaughtered by bombs.
  • (7) Carr's elevation was marred by another round of Labor bloodletting when reports emerged that ministers including Stephen Smith, who holds the defence portfolio, tried to block Carr's appointment.
  • (8) Bloodletting and leeching declined with the advent of modern medicine.
  • (9) Sigma-Aminocapronic acid and contrical should be added during bloodletting as well as into blood plasma before isolation of fibrinogen to avoid possible fibrinogen proteolysis.
  • (10) Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed Kurdish guerrilla leader and a man the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, once said he would have liked to have seen hanged, called a ceasefire in one of the world's worst and longest-running conflicts : 30 years of bloodletting between the Turkish army and Kurdish militants.
  • (11) Amid all this bloodletting, most of the police stood by.
  • (12) Most of the accused maintain the fiction that the Tutsis were victims of a spontaneous bloodletting provoked by the murder of President Habyarimana.
  • (13) Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to arrest the bloodletting inside the Coalition with a full mea culpa on the election campaign and a message to conservatives that it was Tony Abbott who laid the groundwork for Labor’s successful offensive on Medicare .
  • (14) Both my grandmothers lost brothers in the four-year bloodletting: one in Passchendaele, the other in Gaza.
  • (15) Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said: "What should have been a moment of hope for the security of the Central African Republic turned into a horrific scene of bloodletting and mutilation.
  • (16) Bloodletting in three subjects caused a 20% decrease, reinfusion in one subject a 16% increase.
  • (17) "But to change his record without political bloodletting, he has to work with the existing structure."
  • (18) The Democrats were one of the main beneficiaries of the night, looking forward to the Republicans spending months ahead in bloodletting, using up energy and funds on each other rather than Obama.
  • (19) Other nonsexual cultural practices that do not fit the age distribution pattern of AIDS but may expose individuals to HIV include (1) practices resulting in exposure to blood (medicinal bloodletting, rituals establishing "blood brotherhood," and possibly ritual and medicinal enemas); (2) practices involving the use of shared instruments (injection of medicines, ritual scarification, group circumcision, genital tatooing, and shaving of body hair); and (3) contact with nonhuman primates.
  • (20) What emerges is both the scale of covert killings by US special forces – running 20 raids a night at one point in Afghanistan – and the unmistakable fact that these units are operating as death squads, whose bloodletting is dressed up as "targeted killings" of terrorists and insurgents for the benefit of a grateful nation back home.

Violence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
  • (n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
  • (n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.
  • (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (3) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
  • (4) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (5) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (6) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (7) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (8) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
  • (9) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
  • (10) A one-year study of staff injuries from inpatient violence at a large forensic state hospital found that 121 staff members sustained 135 injuries.
  • (11) We wanted to return to Kabul, but the violence there just kept getting worse.
  • (12) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
  • (13) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (14) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (15) Recent reports from local health centres in South Kivu claim that an estimated 40 women continue to experience sexual violence every day.
  • (16) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
  • (17) These findings suggest that community differences in levels of violence are perpetuated as Zapotec children learn community-appropriate patterns for expressing aggression and continue to express these patterns as adults.
  • (18) The film's rating certificate warned of "moderate violence".
  • (19) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
  • (20) Black physicians should assume a lead role in these inquiries and in the prevention and treatment of violence, specifically black-on-black murder.