Sentences with phrase «by mob violence»
In 2009, eight Christians were killed by mob violence in Gojra.
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As long as Christianity remained recognised by the State as a sect of Judaism (cf. Acts 18:14), the Church had only to fear mob violence and the limited powers of Jewish religious authorities.
The attempted overthrow of a democratically elected government by coup d'etat is clearly unacceptable, but the prime minister's expression of pride in the brutal murder of citizens by others is an appalling encouragement of mob violence that has no place in a democratic regime.
A key misunderstanding, however, seems to pervade popular thinking: that mobs are irrational and are driven to violence by a few bad apples.
Updating a script written by Robert Lowell (a man who has been deceased since 1977), Haley updates the action to modern day Cleveland, but this mob affiliated kidnap caper feels exactly like direct - to - video fodder from the mid to late 90's modeling snappy, impressionistic dialogue around loopy bits of violence and pronounced plot twists, a common template following the success of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).
The Brooklyn Banker (R for violence and profanity) Fact - based mob saga about an ambitious banker (Troy Garity) who comes to regret allowing himself to be recruited by the Mafia.
Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn Ford as the workaday family - man cop driven over the edge when the mob violently kills his wife in a hit meant for him (the scene is the first of the film's explosive eruptions of violence that tear through the poise of normalcy).
Leaves of Grass (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Mob comedy about an Ivy League Classics professor (Ed Norton) who is lured home to Oklahoma by a false report of his pot - dealing, identical twin's death only to end - up embroiled in a cockamamie scheme to topple his rival drug kingpin (Richard Dreyfuss).
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 2, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS American Gangster (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity, violence and pervasive drug content) Oscar - winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off in this mob saga, set in the Seventies, about the efforts of a rogue cop to bring down a drug lord who's been smuggling heroin to Harlem in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
Legend (R for sexuality, drug use, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) Mob saga revisiting the exploits of Reggie and Ronnie Kray (both played by Tom Hardy), infamous identical twins who ran a powerful crime syndicate in London in the Sixties.
The riveting life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who, as his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, sheltered more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.
As black people were murdered by mobs around the country, the flag would appear, marking one of New York City's busiest thoroughfares with a protest of constant racial violence.