Sentences with phrase «threaten violence against another person»

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At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

Those very same people would be outraged if they read that New Zealand students had threatened violence against a university because they had invited a Maori speaker in favour of improved land rights.

Moreover, for speaking the truth about neglect, abuse and needless killing in shelters and for PETA's systematic slaughter of thousands of animals every year, the same people who have made these allegations have called me a «piece of shit,» threatened violence against me (one of them wrote an article called «Nathan Winograd Should be Beheaded) and threatened to kill my dog.

Ecoterrorism.Eco - terrorism is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as «the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against people or property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental - political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.»

A federal statute defines «crime of violence» as «(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or «(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.»

Kansas defines domestic violence as an act of violence or a threatened act of violence against a family member, household member, or between people who are dating.

(a) «Domestic violence» means an act of violence or a threatened act of violence upon a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship, and may include any act or threatened act against a person or against property, including an animal, when used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge directed against a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship.

The mediator shall disclose a participant's threat of suicide or violence against any person to the threatened person and the appropriate authorities if the mediator believes such threat is likely to be acted upon as permitted by law.