(1) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(2) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
(3) These violent attempters are compared with nonviolent attempters, and the entire population of attempters is compared with suicide attempters in New Haven, Connecticut.
(4) The Mr. Roger's clip was slow, rhythmic, prosocial, and nonviolent, while the G.I.
(5) They could hardly have expected that they would help launch a movement that not only changed the nation and led to national legislation, but offered a toolbox of nonviolent strategies and visions to the world, used in South Africa and Egypt, in Czechoslovakia and the Philippines.
(6) But without structural reform to privatized probation, courts will continue to throw low-income, nonviolent offenders in jail – because those who are poor and commit misdemeanors simply can’t afford the high costs of going free.
(7) Boyling used the name Jim Sutton between 1995 and 2000 in the campaign Reclaim the Streets, which organised nonviolent protests against cars, such as blocking roads and holding street parties.
(8) Testosterone levels were analyzed in a group of nonviolent sex offenders and compared to normal controls; the offenders had significantly lower levels (P = 0.0016).
(9) Neither of these commonly employed two-point types successfully discriminated between violent and nonviolent offenders.
(10) But boys who are raised in nonviolent environments that foster empathy don't grow up to fuse sex with violence or become rapists.
(11) So do advocates and practitioners of nonviolent civil resistance, who have often concentrated on the task of getting rid of dictators with less thought and planning about what comes after.
(12) Within the day unit real life stress situations are recreated around everyday issues, enabling families to find new and nonviolent solutions to the problems of daily life.
(13) Before seclusion most behaviors were disturbed but nonviolent; during seclusion most behaviors were nondisturbed.
(14) 40 violent and 40 nonviolent inmates from a prison population were selected for study.
(15) The hypothesized relation between uncomfortably hot temperatures and aggressive behavior was examined in two studies of violent and nonviolent crime.
(16) You cannot fight a campaign – even a nonviolent one – without decrying your opponents.
(17) There were no differences in the levels of the three substances in violent and nonviolent suicides.
(18) Multiple recidivistic nonviolent criminal behavior was found at a significantly elevated rate in adopted-away sons when mental disorder and criminal involvement were characteristic of the adoptees' biological families.
(19) He was a leader with a soldier’s spirit – even nicknamed Castro because he was always ready for the fight, and there were times that he had to be reminded that theirs was a nonviolent movement.
(20) The former mental patient received fewer guilty verdicts than did the nonhospitalized defendant in the nonviolent robbery condition, while no difference existed in the violent robbery condition.
Violent
Definition:
(a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
(a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
(a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
(n.) An assailant.
(v. t.) To urge with violence.
(v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(4) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
(5) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(6) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
(7) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
(8) The Bolotnaya Square protest in May was the only one to turn violent in the nearly year-long wave of demonstrations that brought on to the streets tens of thousands of people opposed to Putin's return to the presidency.
(9) IPCC found a Gwent police control room operation had downgraded a call relating to her despite police knowing she was trying to escape a violent partner.
(10) A case of complete rupture of the pectoralis major after violent trauma is reported.
(11) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
(12) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(13) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(14) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
(15) Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
(16) Data from almost a third of hospital emergency departments found a 12% fall in injuries from violent incidents in 2013.
(17) The resulting disturbing, violent or disruptive behavior will severely detract from the quality of life the patient and family can share together.
(18) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
(19) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(20) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.