Sentences with phrase «of mob violence»

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.

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

There were waves of mob violence against Catholics, and churches and convents (mocked as «nunneries») were burned.

Not exact matches

It's almost as if this is an 85 - minute movie about the mob and a 30 - minute story about racial violence north of the Mason - Dixon line are just smashed together.

Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

Reuters: Pakistani mob burns alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Koran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.

He is the lone hero standing up to the mob that is willing to secure justice through the anguished acceptance of violence.

The French Revolution sanctified mob violence and ritualized public executions as noble expressions of liberty.

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.

In August 2008, anti-Christian mob violence swept across the Kandhamal District of India's Odisha State, then known as Orissa, after Christians were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Lakshmanananda Saraswati.

It was a tool for limiting out of control mob violence.

Consider the financial collapse and what will be the collapse of the US as a super power, escalating violence and anarchy (flash mobs becoming the latest fad)... and the list goes on and on.

If the polity doesn't work (if the Liberal Democrats promise one thing and actually do another) and the violence of the mob simply isn't an option, what do you do?

They're inciting mob violence against a pinata of Speaker Pelosi at this week's right - wing lunatic fringe fest.

The Londoners eventually turned to violence, but not necessarily because of mob madness or because the group was made up of individuals with a tendency toward unfettered aggression.

Theft, violence, and even death all resulted from this seasonal wardrobe switch, and the New York Times reported that a «mob of 1,000» took part in the Straw Hat Riots of 1922.

Dolan's Cadillac Rated R for violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the Stephen King short story, when a school teacher's (Wes Bentley) wife is murdered in cold blood for witnessing the crimes of a mob boss (Christian Slater), the teacher vows revenge.

Glenn Ford is the bland 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 placid poise of normalcy).

Dom Hemingway (R for nudity, sexuality, violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Jude Law plays the titular character of this crime comedy as a just - paroled safe cracker who's determined to collect a bonus from his mob boss (Demian Bichir) for not snitching on him while behind bars.

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).

Keyhole (R for sexuality, violence, profanity and graphic nudity) Surrealistic crime saga about a Prodigal mob boss» (Jason Patric) nostalgic return home where he proceeds to reminisce while slowly searching the premises for his wife (Isabella Rossellini), much to the chagrin of his impatient henchmen waiting downstairs with a drowning victim (Brooke Palsson) and a bound - and - gagged hostage (David Wontner).

Gangster Squad (R for profanity and graphic violence) Mob saga, set in the Forties, revolving around the efforts of a half - dozen detectives to prevent the Mafia from gaining a foothold in Los Angeles.

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).

While its tale of near - future mob assassins uses time travel to generate exciting twists and turns, those popcorn elements are in service of a fundamentally character - driven piece about the self - defeating futility of violence.

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).

VanBebber's freak flag flies proudest, though, in the moments between the freak - outs, as a particular, pungent variety of drunken puerile enthusiasm (the type that leads to mob violence, fraternities, and Focus on the Family) seeps off the screen and into our memories of our lowest, most frightened moments.

Precious Cargo (R for sexuality, violence and pervasive profanity) Crime thriller about a mob boss (Bruce Willis) who pressures a seductive thief (Claire Forlani) to recruit her ex (Mark - Paul Gosselaar) for a heist of rare gems.

Yet where Gladiator turned cinemagoers into a mob of Roman spectators baying for ever more bloody excess, «Kingdom of Heaven» instead appeals to the very best in its viewers, and steadfastly refuses to glorify war or violence.

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.

Even a fun cameo from Clark Gregg helps bring some levity to the harsh violence we witness in the Italian / Irish Mob war of the late 1910s.

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.

Transporter 3 (PG - 13 for violence, intense action, sexuality and drug use) High - octane adventure with Jason Statham returning as the gruff, two - fisted chauffeur for a mission where he falls in love with the kidnapped daughter (Natalya Rudakova) of a powerful Ukrainian politician (Jeroen Krabbe) while driving her from Marseilles to Odessa through a gauntlet of mob goons.

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.

Mob violence and firebombing during the Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood District ---- one of the wealthiest African - American enclaves of that period that was often referred to as «Black Wall Street.»

Other cities such as Philadelphia have also experienced flash mob thefts to the point that Philly's mayor announced a 9 p.m. curfew last month «for city children in certain neighborhoods in an effort to stop increasing occurrences of flash mob violence.»

But the issue of teenage violence extends beyond flash mobs.