Sentences with phrase «at turns violent»

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The violent ups and downs, said Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, may in turn undermine confidence in the economy, and the weakness in the economy can lead to more strident politics — all of which feeds the volatility loop.

Christian protesters turned unusually violent after suicide bombers attacked Sunday services at nearby Catholic and Anglican churches in one of Pakistan's largest Christian communities.

Having come to associate the direct application of Scripture to governance with violent conflict and political instability, English Protestants were primed to turn to Enlightenment ideals that promised a reasonable path to tolerance and peaceful governance at the expense of biblical authority.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

Doctors often encourage teens who have sleep problems to make lifestyle changes — like turning off the cellphone or computer before bed, cutting down on caffeine, or avoiding violent video games or movies at night — to promote good sleeping habits.

Hardly anyone assumes that the uprising at the Nile will become as violent and fanatic as it turned out in Persia 23 years ago.

Hundreds of people gathered at the site of a fatal crash in Charlottesville, Va. to honor the victims one day after the rally that turned violent.

«Right now, if we turn on our televisions or go on the internet, we will see ample evidence of people — specifically people of color — being the subject of violent death in our country,» Soares said at a press conference.

In a chat with pressmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, he decried the way and manner the youths were going about the demonstration was wrong as they had turned what was supposed to be a peaceful protest into violent killings and destruction of properties.

The convoy turned into a field, at which point around 1,300 police descended upon them and a violent confrontation took place.

Ironically, the same Igbo would - be dominators of yore are themselves howling «marginalization» in a Nigeria that just turned 57, even after a futile violent attempt at secession (1967 - 1970).

That discovery not only surprised investigators, it also was at odds with overheated speculation in the media and around dinner tables that violent video games had helped turn Lanza into a killer.

Now liberated from financial problems, Refn has been turning out sharp, violent, innovative genre fare at a prolific clip, including the 2008 biopic Bronson, about the world's most notorious inmate, and 2009's Valhalla Rising, which follows the mythic adventures of a one - eyed mute warrior during The Crusades.

It turns out werewolves aren't violent at all, they just change form under certain circumstances.

He has an explosive scene with the store manager that threatens to turn violent, but at that very moment, a young woman he'd been flirting with earlier as she shopped calls his name.

Beatrix Potter purists might be annoyed at the turn, but there is an exposition dump about Peter's (violent) history with Mr. McGregor done in the classic Potter style, which should soothe sore tempers.

At this point, it's pretty much a given that, if a movie features a scientific experiment that is meant to look like a human being even though it isn't, the experiment will turn violent.

What starts as a routine interrogation soon turns into a violent bloodbath at the hands of Frost's pursuers, with Weston tasked with avoiding the increasing bloodshed as he escorts his duplicitous charge to a new location.

Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior in the vicious games of one - upmanship played by both students and masters.

So Mario + Rabbids takes the X-COM approach to battle — a turn - based strategy where players hide behind cover and take shots at enemies, all while laying devious traps for your enemies to fall into — and despite Mario not being the most violent of chaps, he's more than happy to shoot down some fools in the Princess and Country.

The girls collide in an informal dance contest at school that turns into a brawl (this fight is the most violent moment of the film).

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

The dog will start twitching which will gradually turn in to larger convulsions The convulsions normally become so frequent and violent, that euthanasia is often carried out at this stage.

Using harsh and violent methods will not help at all, because they will turn this powerful dog into a very dangerous one to have around.

As we watch the Hollow Child realize their true nature and gaze with horror at their violent demise, Binary Domain doesn't just reveal its pulp sensibility; it weaponizes it to turn the moment into a bitesized tragedy of Sophoclean richness.

So Mario + Rabbids takes the X-COM approach to battle — a turn - based strategy where players hide behind cover and take shots at enemies, all while laying devious traps for your enemies to fall into — and despite Mario not being the most violent of chaps, he's more than happy to shoot down some fools in the Princess and Country.

My concerns with virtual reality turning beloved game franchises into realistic VR simulators rises when we look at how some of the violent and already realistic franchises and how series such as Grand Theft Auto could, potentially, be seen as VR crime simulators which could, unfortunately, lead to instances where those that previously claimed that violent video games could turn people into thugs could end up being correct.

A widely disseminated aerial photograph of a summer storm looming large over a vulnerable Manhattan served recently as a striking reminder — if one were needed — that natural forces are not only ungovernable, but also can turn violent at the drop of a millibar.

Like Kaprow or land artist Robert Smithson, Nkanga is interested in humanity's fluctuating relationship to land and place, which is, at turns, violent and restorative.

As a sign of the times, those new paintings have taken a brutal turn — they're at once more abstract and more clearly violent, even political, showing little black girls defaced or wielding handguns, occasionally shooting each other dead.

These pioneering photographs publicly exposed the violent consequences of human rights abuses at the turn of the century, and are exhibited alongside newly commissioned work from acclaimed contemporary Congolese artist Sammy Baloji who continues to investigate the colonial legacies and fractured histories that haunt contemporary Congolese society.

It's like the proverbial frog in the pot being boiled with the stove set on high: convection mixing hot water coming up from below with cold water at the top results in more frequent and more violent fluctuations in temperature than would be observed with the stove turned way down, but the frog can not blame any single fluctuation on the stove being on high.

But the revolution of the 1960s eventually turned into conflict that became violent at points.

Six persons were killed and dozens injured as Dalit protests during a day - long nation - wide shutdown on Monday turned violent in India amid anger against a Supreme Court order that dilutes a law aimed at preventing atrocities against Dalits and Tribes.