Sentences with phrase «marred by violence»

If dodgy deals like these secret sales helped in part to finance contested polls marred by violence in the past, then now is the time for change.

In 1980, after days spent crowded into the Peruvian Embassy, Alfonzo left by sea on a journey that was marred by violence.

It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness.

The washed - out 1950s suburban setting marred by violence and blood also feels a lot like a Coens film.

Prof. Francis Ezeonu, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, said elections in areas where ballot boxes were seized or where voting was marred by any violence would be voided.

The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City's streets Monday but, once again, was marred by violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical condition.

Officials had posted more police at the festival, which has been historically marred by violence.

Residents reacted strongly to the poster, taking to a closed Facebook neighborhood group to discuss how the message reflected on J'Ouvert, a festive event that nevertheless has been marred by violence that occurs near the celebration.

While the coverage of the march ended up being marred by the violence, it doesn't mean they didn't damage the government, in fact the two student protests last year that ended in violence also hit government support — though the poll effect is probably more from the reminder of unpopular policies and opposition to them, than the violence itself!

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would review the future of the predawn celebration before the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn after two people were shot and killed during the festival long marred by violence.

Past elections have been marred by violence and allegations of vote - rigging.

But the development created tension in Onitsha ahead of Saturday's (today) election amid palpable fear in different parts of the state that the election could be marred by violence.

Yet again the streets of an American city are marred by violence,» Clinton said, referring to the recent riots in Baltimore over Gray's death.

Some other Anambra residents, who spoke with Saturday PUNCH, expressed their readiness to vote while many others pointed out that they had their reasons to be afraid that the exercise could be marred by violence.

He has won elections, but over the past 15 years, these have been reportedly marred by violence against political opponents.

The first leg of Lyon's Europa League quarterfinal against Besiktas last April was marred by violence that led to $ 100,000 fines for each club and a two - year suspended ban from European competition that would activate in case of further incidents.

A Liga MX soccer match between Veracruz and Tigres UANL was marred by violence when fans from both sides confronted each other in the stands.

Puppy Bowl marred by violence as Mark Wahlberg pins Sylvester Stallone at midfield.

Not exact matches

A flurry of domestic violence cases at the collegiate and professional level marred the integrity of the game off - field, as well as questionable handling of the cases by football executives.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

The Italian soccer league's recent history is marred by match - fixing scandals, financial insolvency, and fan racism and violence.

And at a tournament which has been marred by fan violence, it is refreshing to see Muller and his United friends showing that football is meant to bring people together.

The generally peaceful international workers» day protest on May 1 has been marred in recent years by sporadic acts of violence and vandalism and police are working flat out to foil a repetition.

While the deficiency of the Kogi polls was official political gerrymandering, the Bayelsa elections were marred by extreme violence.

The elections were marred by widespread sectarian violence, which claimed the lives of 800 people across the country, Buhari's won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner.

The number of inmates held in solitary confinement on New York City's Rikers Island has fallen sharply, in what city officials say is a sign of a gradual turnaround at a jail complex marred by allegations of violence and abuse.

A statement by head of his media office, Chikwelugo Obidiwe, said the subsequent violence that marred the stakeholders» meeting in Awka on Sunday was not only condemnable, but a weird and dangerous phenomenon, completely unknown to opposition politics in the state.

The Local Government chairmanship primaries of the All Progressive Congress (APC) held in Lagos on Saturday, was marred by massive outbreak of violence leading to the abrupt ending of the exercise.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

Ponet's tenure was also marred by increasing violence and scrutiny by human rights groups and federal officials at Rikers Island.

This was contained in a statement issued by the State Government after the deceased funeral was marred with violence and attacks on innocent persons attending the final rites by some angry youths in Ede.

In the book's introduction, you say that many people have one of two clichéd views of life in the North: individuals vying against harsh though beautiful terrain or individuals living an isolated existence marred by alcoholism and violence.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

By the time he was a teenager, the violence that marred that area of the country had increased, leaving his mother no choice but to give this advice: Get out.

«Instead, school days are marred by gender - based violence, which includes bullying, verbal and sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and corporal punishment.

Not to mention those whose lives have been marred by substance use, violence and severe mental illness.

The history since independence from Great Britain has been marred by intense periods of political rivalries, sometimes resulting in violence, although currently Jamaica is on a much more stable course with a pro-American orientation.