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violence

noun assault, attack, brutality, clash, disorder, eruption, explosion, ferocity, force, furiousness, fury, inclemency, manus, onslaught, rage, rampage, ruthlessness, savagery, severity, unlawful force, vehemence, violentia, wildness
Foreign phrases: Insanus est qui, abjecta ratione, omnia cum impetu et furore facit.A person is insane who, deerived of reason, does everything with violence and rage. Paci sunt maxime contraria vis et injuria. Violence and injury are especially hostile to peace. Est autem vis legem simulans. Violence may also be masquerading as the law.

VIOLENCE. The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, 32. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty. Merl. h. t, 2. In cases of robbery, in order to convict the accused, it is requisite to prove that the act was done with violence; but this violence is not confined to an actual assault of the person, by beating, knocking down, or forcibly wresting from him on the contrary, whatever goes to intimidate or overawe, by the apprehension of personal violence, or by fear of life, with a view to compel the delivery of property equally falls within its limits. Alison, Pr. Cr. Law of Scotl. 228; 4 Binn. R. 379; 2 Russ. on Cr. 61; 1 Hale P. C. 553. When an article is merely snatched, as by a sudden pull, even though a momentary force be exerted, it is not such violence as to constitute a robbery. 2 East, P. C. 702; 2 Russ. Cr. 68; Dig. 4, 2, 2 and 3.

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Because such violences are more frequently caused by the passions and interests of a part than of the whole; of one or two States than of the Union.

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The savages assured me that there had not--but I was inclined to believe that by deceiving me in this particular they sought to allay the violence of my grief.

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This research is a comparative study of physical violence on women in the rural and urban areas of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Physical Violence on Women: A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Areas of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir

980(a), Petition for Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence.

Amendments to the family law forms

What is astounding is that people are actually surprised when violence shows its ugly face.

Violence against women

MANY COMPLAIN THAT TV AND MOVIE VIOLENCE has become commonplace and coarse, but what I worry about is that too much of it has no cost or consequence.

The walking wounder: far from being redemptive, violence--whether in crimes or in war--comes back to haunt us all, including the perpetrators

Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence BY HECTOR AVALOS (Amherst, N.

Scarce spiritual resources

The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916.

The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916

A challenge to such notions is attempted here through a specific example of how Palestinian Arab society views conflicts and violence and how it is able to manage violence, even when the state is unwilling or unable to do so.

Internal violence: state's role and society's responses

In 2003 a Vatican document written on behalf of John Paul II by then--cardinal Joseph Ratzinger--now Pope Benedict XVI--declared, "Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in [same-sex] unions would actually mean doing violence to these children.

Love is not violence

In the absence of "systematic research" or data linking sexual violence and athletes, media commentators, white feminists and psychologists have taken to the airwaves to castigate Kobe Bryant as part of a larger trend within sports, reducing the problem of sexual violence to a single social institution.

In search of the race card: what did Kobe Bryant's case reveal about the racializing of sexual violence?