Sentences with phrase «been a violent period»

The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch» ing dynasty.

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Or if you read about fighting in Syria you might think we're living in exceptionally violent times, when in fact we're living in the least threatening period in history.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

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.

So a correction was found as the «70s dawned, the angry voices of the alienated minorities diminished, the bloody Vietnam war ended, the cities grew less hysterical, and the nation discovered that its institutions were strong enough to withstand the enormous challenge of corruption in the highest office of this land, finally expelling that corruption in a violent period of national purging.

But it also has the potential to be the most violent and destructive period in the long history of humankind.

During a long period of research and drafting by civil servants, the proposals were strongly opposed by a lobby of children's and women's organisations on the grounds that any change would be an invitation to violent men to abuse their partners.

Michel Odent, in his review of research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.

«There's just a real human intensity to it, and as a medium for carrying the idea of violent compassion as a radical thing, it has a lot of application to today; a period of almost unprecedented cruelty in politics, certainly compared to the last 30 or 40 years.

After a period of protests, seeking to ensure black people were represented in government and other areas of public life, the revolution against the British occupation and the exploitation of the country's natural resources turns violent.

The methodology of the crime statistics changed significantly during that period, the BBC report suggested, because the alleged victim of the crime, rather than police officers, decided whether it should be recorded as a violent crime.

Those who are released will be closely monitored for a longer period - up to eight years for sex offenders and up to five years for violent offenders.

State Senator James Seward announced Senate passage of legislation he co-sponsors which would allow the New York State Parole Board to extend the period of time between reconsidering parole board denials from two years to five years when the inmate was sentenced for a violent crime.

The Earth's axis fluctuates between having a tilt of 22 degrees and 24 degrees and when the tilt is 24 degrees, there is a larger difference between summer and winter and this has an influence on the violent shifts in climate between ice ages and interglacial periods.

Over that same period, movies with an R rating declined from 40 percent to 23 percent among the top 30, «paralleling a gradual shift of violent content in top - grossing movies from the R to PG - 13 category,» the researchers said.

About 2.6 percent of the study population first attempted suicide and 3.2 percent were convicted of a first violent offense during the study period.

«Any life emerging during the Hadean eon likely needed to be resistant to high temperatures, and could have survived such a violent period in Earth's history by thriving in niches deep underground or in the ocean's crust.»

«We know this period was extremely violent with internal warfare across Italy,» says Turchin.

A new study of the relationship between violent conflict and HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa finds that HIV incidence may be at its worst in the period before hostilities break out.

The more I learned about PCOS, the more things started falling into place — why I had violent, soak - through - clothing periods, why my cycles were 45 days apart, why I had adult acne, and perhaps even why I experienced insomnia!

It's not really a traditional slasher in the sense that it's really that violent, it's actually very tame all things considered, I just mean it in the sense that everybody's gonna die and they have a very short period of time to do so.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

«After surviving an absurd three - day «trial period» involving a.44 magnum, purple - pyramid acid, violent verbal outbursts, brushes with fame and the law, a bevy of peacocks, and a whole lot of cocaine, Alley is invited to stay at the compound where Reade works.

A Most Violent Year (R for profanity and some violence) American Dream drama, set in NYC in 1981, revolving around the efforts of an immigrant couple (Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac) to make it in the corrupt, oil delivery business during one of the most dangerous periods in the history of the city.

Waste of a good cast excessively violent and obssesive period detail cant disguise some poor performances Guy pearce is ott, shitloaf out of his depth and goldman phones in his performance the girls do better with crumbs... chastain is the only interesting character in the film and put another great performance the great Mia recycles her sissy southern drawl to good effect but it just boys with guns with a corny ending

«Over the 5 - year period from 1995 through 1999, teachers were the victims of approximately 1,708,000 nonfatal crimes at school, including 1,073,000 thefts and 635,000 violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault).

The number of principals who have been threatened with violence by parents increased from 19 per cent in 2011 to 25 per cent in 2014; and violent threats made by students increased from 17 per cent to 24 per cent over the same period.

Such procedures shall assure that copies of each violent or disruptive incident report at the building or program level are retained for period prescribed by the commissioner in the applicable records retention schedule, and are available for inspection by the department upon request; provided that a district or board that adopts an electronic reporting system may fulfill such requirement by retaining an electronic record of the information reported at the building or program level.

a minimum suspension period for acts that would qualify the pupil to be defined as a violent pupil pursuant to Education Law, section 3214 (2 - a)(a), provided that the suspending authority may reduce such period on a case - by - case basis to be consistent with any other State and Federal law;

Recreating a period of Australian and British history as evocative and violent as the American frontier era, Only Killers and Thieves is an unforgettable story of family, guilt, empire, race, manhood, and faith that combines the insightfulness of Philipp Meyer's The Son, the atmospheric beauty of Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist, and the raw storytelling power of Ian McGuire's The North Water.

In many Western religious traditions it is expected that there will be a period of violent upheaval before the end of the world.

It's been a violent period, after all.

Frieze.com: Is there a continuity between these complex battle scenes and the violent action of earlier works such as Theory of Catastrophe (2004), or do they belong to different periods, with shifting concerns?

The artist herself referred to the work created in this period of the early 1960s as «very violent and angry,» but by 1964 she was «trying to get out of a violent phase and into something else.»

Jorn's paintings from this period are marked by violent brushstrokes, while he was also influenced by Primitivism / Primitive Art.

«It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming.

The accretion period of planet is relatively a short period of the billions of year of their history - and very violent [rocks falling like rain].

Hailstones are created so it is believed, by a more or less continuous loop of being caught in violent updrafts as found in thunderstorms, ie; above glider example, and then falling out of the updraught cell back down to lower levels where they might be caught up again in another or the same updraft cell and so accumulate water and ice on the core of the frozen hailstone over a period of anywhere from just one passage in the updraft to a number of passages which can be ascertained and recognised by the number of rings when a hailstone is dissected across its diameter.

Rain that falls as a violent downpour doesn't gently soak into the soil, and instead quickly runs off into rivers and is carried back to the sea, leaving the land to get drier and drier between periods of precipitation.

But in a case that marked the start of Ramsay's period of active addiction, roughly a year and a half before the arrest, the client had been accused of taking part in the violent gang rape of a woman in her apartment.

By comparison: in that same period, there were 721 murders and 55,247 violent crimes in Illinois.

If the life assured has an accident caused by outward, violent and visible means and results in the death within a period of 180 days of the occurrence of the incident then this rider benefit shall be payable.

When Johnston suggests that «this violent separation - related behavior can become the crucible within which a negative reconstruction of the identity of the... spouse is made, casting a long shadow over the postdivorce relationship of these couples,» [FN41] she risks discrediting the spouse whose new understanding of the relationship is now more reality based after an earlier period in which her commitment to the relationship led her to minimize or deny the abuse or to take inappropriate responsibility for it.

Pregnancy and birth, particularly of a first child, is a period of major lifestyle changes that can be stressful for mothers and fathers.15 — 17 The highest rates of child neglect and violent abuse occur when children are under 5 years of age, 18, 19 with the most serious cases of injury and death caused by parental violence against children occurring when infants are under 1 year of age.20

For example, in one case a parent may be physically violent to the other over a long period of time.

Factors that may lead to impaired communication during the reintegration period include emotional numbing or avoidance in the service member secondary to post-traumatic stress or depression and unwillingness to talk about wartime experiences, including (often legitimate) concerns about exposing family members to violent or graphic contents, fears of being negatively judged, or the need to protect mission - related information (Lincoln et al. 2008; Riggs et al. 1998).