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Example sentences for: violent

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The cynical spin: The Knicks won't tolerate a violent old veteran (Rodman), but a violent young prodigy (Sprewell) is OK.
The WP suggests that U.N. efforts to keep last month's East Timor independence vote from turning violent may have been doomed from the start.
One could point out, in arguing against the safety-valve theory, that as America has grown more profane in the past 30 years, it has also grown more violent, not less.
In 1969, Québécois separatists staged violent but unsuccessful demonstrations to have it transformed into a French-speaking institution.
Thus began a period of prosperity which was only brought to a violent end in 614 when Persian armies invaded.