violence

• He also requested the court to hold that the power to constitute a tribunal to inquire into the violence was a residual matter on which only the state House of Assembly was competent to make law, vide section 4 (7) of the constitution. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
• He said a halt to the violence was the immediate priority. —  Signs of the Times
• Apart from the brutal murder of Lakshmanananda Saraswati, another goad for the violence was the distribution of a pamphlet, 'Satya Darshini', which calls Hindu gods and goddesses by the vilest of names.
• Threatened self-esteem accounts for a large portion of violence at the individual level, but to really get a mass atrocity going you need idealism - the belief that your violence is a means to a moral end. —  Dangerous Intersection
• A spokesman for the POA said the violence was the worst at a British prison since an orgy of destruction at Lincoln jail in October 2002 in which one inmate died. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

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