61 examples of violence against in sentences

But Dunstan’s cabal was not inactive during his absence; they filled the public with high panegyrics on his sanctity; they exclaimed against the impiety of the king and queen; and having poisoned the minds of the people by these declamations, they proceeded to still more outrageous acts of violence against the royal authority.

The triumph of the English, upon this signal and decisive advantage, was at first attended with some assault and violence against the Danes; but the king, by the mildness of his character, soon reconciled the latter to his administration, and the distinction between the two nations gradually disappeared.

[MN 30th Aug.] He assembled a synod at Westminster, and there complained of the impiety of Stephen's measures, who had employed violence against the dignitaries of the church, and had not awaited the sentence of a spiritual court, by which alone, he affirmed, they could lawfully be tried and condemned, if their conduct had anywise merited censure or punishment.

It's the last resort of the weak, force against force, violence against violence.

It rises sometimes sixty or seventy feet, and dashes itself with fearful violence against the south and east coasts, doing great damage, but not lasting for any length of time.

In another moment we should have been dashed by its violence against the ship, and all have perished.

And they could also say of him that he never used violence against a wild goose.

The senate met in the temple of Concord, but Cicero himself was persuaded not to attend by his friends, who were afraid of Antonius proceeding to actual violence against him, (and indeed he brought a strong guard of armed men with him to the senate)

Godwin disliked the introduction of the Norman tongue and Norman customs in England, and when Eustace, Count of Boulogne and author of the sausage which bears his name, committed an act of violence against the people of Dover, they arose as one man, drove out the foreigners, and fumigated the town as well as the ferry running to Calais.

The prophet Obadiah brings the following charge against treacherous Edom, which is precisely applicable to this guilty nation:"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall come over thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

The prophet Obadiah brings the following charge against treacherous Edom, which is precisely applicable to this guilty nation:"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall come over thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Whilst on many estates where peremptory demands have been made that work be resumed, or the laborers should leave the estate, downright refusal to do either the one or the other has been the reply; and that reply has been accompanied by threat and menace of personal violence against any attempts to turn them out of their houses and grounds.

The prophet Obadiah brings the following charge against treacherous Edom, which is precisely applicable to this guilty nation:"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall come over thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

The prophet Obadiah brings the following charge against treacherous Edom, which is precisely applicable to this guilty nation:"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall come over thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

There is always danger lest the honest abhorrence of a crime should raise the passions with too much violence against the man to whom it is imputed.

The substance of the story is, that a Boston merchant proposed to gild the lamp over his street-door, but was dissuaded from so doing by the suggestion of a friend, that by savoring of aristocracy the ornamented gas-burner would offend the tyrannical people and provoke violence against it!

Among the favourites of the Prince he had equally marked for destruction the young Prince de Chalais, the Duc de Vendôme, and his brother the Grand Prior; but Richelieu feared by venturing too much to lose all, for his authority had not at that period reached its acme; and he felt all the danger which he must incur by adopting measures of such violence against two Princes of the Blood.

When this had been done and a garrison stationed at many points, there was no further sign of revolution in the city, insomuch that Cicero was even falsely charged with sycophancy; but messages from the Etruscans confirmed the accusation, and thereupon he prepared an indictment for violence against Catiline.

The dowry was confiscated to the state if the woman was convicted of lèse majesté, violence against the state, or murder.

The partisans of Pompey, with the stern and inflexible Cato at their head, deemed them wholly inadmissible, and contended with the most determined violence against them.

But to me it was the worst thing that I saw at Döberitz, this act of physical violence against a man by one who has power over him.

He destroyed some troublesome remnants of feudal courts, and created royal courts: in one year that of Poitiers alone punished for exactions and violence against the people more than two hundred nobles.

In this the justice of Providence seemed very conspicuous, that these having pushed all things by violence against the king, and by arms and force brought him to their will, were at once both robbed of the end, their Church government, and punished for drawing their swords against their masters, by their own servants drawing the sword against them; and God, in His due time, punished the others too.

As soon as she struck she began pounding with tremendous violence against the bottom while the seas broke in great white clouds of spray entirely over her quarter-deck.

He had been thrown with violence against a rock, producing a concussion of the brain, which, combined with the length of time he was under water, produced fever, and finally death.

61 examples of  violence against  in sentences