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Violent

Violent meaning

Involving extreme force or motion. | Involving physical conflict. | Likely to use physical force.

Example sentences (20)

Tarantino himself has always crossly rejected any link between violent and real violence, even claiming that those who watch violent don’t turn into violent people but merely into violent film-makers.

Violent and non-violent means seeAlso Some libertarian socialists see violent revolution as necessary in the abolition of capitalist society, while others advocate non-violent methods.

What clear is that playing violent games and watching violent movies doesn't directly cause violent behavior.

However, it is not clear whether a man is violent because he is drunk or whether he drinks to reduce his inhibitions against his violent behavior.

Schools have relied on utilizing law enforcement involvement for violent and non-violent offenses, which creates an unhealthy learning environment.

Similar to the difference in the state’s response towards the non-violent PTM versus its response to the TLP, which was anything but non-violent.

The ex-Head of State recalled that insurgency and other violent crimes had been confronting Nigeria in the last 10 years, adding that the violent threats had spread all over the country.

The guns can, though, at the same time be coming from states with less violent crime into states with more violent crime.

And while there was no significant relationship between heart rate and violent crime when compared to nonviolent crime, there was between lower blood pressure and violent crime.

A year later, Williams transferred to the Cincinnati Field Office as supervisory special agent over the violent crime, transnational organized crime, and violent crimes against children programs.

Expansion of the state’s violent offender statute to include all attempted violent crimes.

He is charged with one count of attempted murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime and unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a violent offense.

If his father has no reservations about being violent to his mother, then why should he, the child, have reservations about picking up a gun or a knife and being violent to a total stranger?

Its violent past – it was the site of one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in history – hardly seems imaginable now.

Sexually violent predators, or SVPs, are people convicted of sexually violent crimes, and diagnosed with a mental disorder that puts them at high risk of re-offending.

So far, there have already been violent attacks on Jews, and violent arrests.

The facilities would still all need to be separated into non-violent and violent offenders.

The footage captured by the man shows the aggressor getting violent, before removing the knuckle duster and repeatedly hitting out at him and making violent threats.

A child that experiences violence as daily occurrences at home would grow up being a violent person, and extends the violent character to the larger society.

In our research, violent expressions of masculinity remained a dominant theme in the school setting, although not all boys were violent.