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Comprehensive and well documented, this biography of the last Tsar's four daughters stops just short of their violent deaths as the tide turns in Russia.

Unless you systematically tabulate violent deaths as a proportion of all deaths or as a proportion of population size, you will be misled.

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

The outcome is not simply theoretical; rabies produces a violent death as the central nervous system is destroyed by the virus, and, tragically, 40 percent of those who die of rabies are children.

Games treat guns, bombs, or violent death as commonplace, rare as they may be in most of our lives.

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And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemute.

The Treviño brothers, Miguel, alias «Z40,» and Alejandro, alias «Omar» or «Z42,» were considered very violent leaders of the Zetas after Lazcano's death and had been connected to several massacres such as the March 2011 Allende massacre.

In addition to larger groups, Newsweek pointed Facebook to a list of eight different smaller groups with names as explicit as Death to Islam that regularly promoted violent imagery directed as Muslims on Facebook.

As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire.As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire.as a social satire...

The fact that the murder of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller is still making headlines nearly two weeks after his death has led some to accuse the media of exploiting the situation to paint all pro-life advocates as violent extremists.

However, most of the cases of undeserved suffering come mixed, with individual human choices, social forces, and physical factors all combined — as in war, poverty, premature or violent death, disease, mental breakdowns, and the like.

Never was a sense of «lets get violent on those folks» mentality present - it has nothing to do with death as a goal one way or another - it does primarily have to do with protecting the freedoms and liberties we enjoy.

I do not think that death simply as such is an evil, but it does make sense to grieve over a premature or ugly or violent death of a sentient being.

How is it possible to affirm, as Christians traditionally have done, that the violent death of Jesus is central to God's eternal plan for human salvation and, simultaneously, that God is not responsible for the murderous anger of Jesus's opponents, the savage brutality of the Roman guards, or the greedy betrayal of Judas Iscariot?

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the sin to which humanity is enslaved.

The themes of the fragility of life and love and the reality of violent death and evil coalesce in The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982) in which Cordelia Gray reappears as the protagonist.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

599 Jesus» violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: «This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.

Others have taught this maxim Which I preach also: The violent man shall die a violent death This I shall regard as my spiritual teacher.72

The closing statement of the editorial is this: «We, and the thousands of other scientists who have signed the statement of protest, stand together in staunch opposition to the violent destruction of required tests on valuable advances such as Golden Rice that have the potential to save millions of impoverished fellow humans from needless suffering and death.»

The pregnant widow of former Cuomo aide Carey Gabay, who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout, wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial yesterday.

Following a recent violent incident at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, as well as the acquisition of documents reporting dozens of deaths there over a three - year span, State Assemblyman Michael Kearns is asking the local acting U.S. Attorney to look more closely.

The pregnant widow of the former Gov. Cuomo aide who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial Monday.

The call comes as violent protests continue to roil Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.

Meanwhile, following the violent clash in Zaria, Kaduna State, between the Nigerian Army and members of the Shiite sect, which led to the death of scores of the sect's members, there is palpable tension in parts of Kaduna as Shiite members have stormed major streets in protest.

A major survey of violent mortality counted a death toll of 397,000 as of April 2005, he observes.

As the chief medical examiner for the District of Columbia, Roger A. Mitchell, Jr.'s job is to solve the mysteries of unexpected or violent deaths.

In addition, reactions to a loss may depend on a person's relationship to the deceased — be it a parent, sibling or child — as well as whether the death was sudden, violent or drawn out.

We used a new disease categorization introduced by Jacobs et al (12), which could underestimate the causes of death primarily due to inflammation because violent death, cancer, and CVD may be preferentially coded as the major underlying cause if these conditions coexisted with an inflammatory - disease — related death.

He made his big screen debut in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), and he subsequently appeared in Lee's Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996), the last of which cast him as a gay man on his way to the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, D.C.Some of Washington's other memorable credits during the»90s included the Hughes brothers» Dead Presidents (1995), the warmly received ensemble romantic comedy Love Jones (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), in which Washington gave a memorable turn as a scheming con's violent brother - in - law; Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998), and Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999), which cast Washington as a man awaiting execution on death row after being falsely accused of murder.

His girlfriend Beth is there for him, but for the rest of the band, their grief takes on a violent edge as they begin to connive to avenge Donnie's death.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

(What exactly remains to be seen: Revenge could equally be paired with March's Death Wish as evidence of a violent lurch to the right.)

The confrontations turned violent, resulting in the deaths of 39 people and leaving hundreds wounded as the riots lasted for five days.

As Hall points out, humans aren't built to survive the conditions of Mount Everest, especially once Death Valley is reached, so it's a dangerous decision in the first place — one made only more dangerous when a brutal and violent storm hits as the team ascends the mountaiAs Hall points out, humans aren't built to survive the conditions of Mount Everest, especially once Death Valley is reached, so it's a dangerous decision in the first place — one made only more dangerous when a brutal and violent storm hits as the team ascends the mountaias the team ascends the mountain.

It's round - about journey to the big - screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue - in - cheek satire on Mexploitation films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.

Shyamalan continually introduces death as a violent tear in the status quo of his characters» lives not just because he's interested in the emotional wounds it leaves, but because he's even more interested in how people heal, move on, and change in the face of it.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter's death, Sawyer goes on a violent road trip from hell, molding him into the monster now known as Leatherface.

This brings to mind a collection of other far - left - leaning pop - films that find our way of life — the concept of the American Dream itself — particularly dubious: Nightcrawler's gaze at death incurred by corporate lingo and unregulated industries, A Most Violent Year's lament for the impossibility of moral management, Foxcatcher's conception of America as a land of slaves and slavemasters, Fury's abject refusal to render Americans the «good guys» even when fighting fascism, the entirety of Inherent Vice.

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Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter's death, the teen goes on a violent road trip from hell, molding him into the monster known now as Leatherface.

Maybe it doesn't matter that we're not made to dislike the characters we see getting killed, so long as some violent death is depicted onscreen, which is maybe all audiences want — and all they ever secretly wanted.

Most of the death scenes have been trimmed to get a rating, and violent grace notes, such as a woman's head getting shredded in the blades of a lawnmower and a boy's arms getting torn from his torso by a pickup truck, are missing entirely.

In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).

Bates and Leigh, who is introduced as an adult (in the book, her character remains a child), have been sworn enemies for 15 years, since the violent death of Bates's husband (the ubiquitous David Strathairn).

Death Wish This is a credible remake of the famous Charles Bronson thriller, taking into account the differences between today and 1974, and starring Bruce Willis as the mild - mannered, upper - middle - class man who becomes a vigilante when his wife and daughters become victims of violent crime.

It's a combination of the absurd, as it deals with cartoonish villains with cartoonish plans, and grim, as it follows the murder of the hero's daughter, and several other gruesome, violent deaths.