Sentences with phrase «widespread violence»

This was against a background of the use of torture and ill - treatment by police and intelligence services, alongside widespread violence against women and girls.

Advances in AI could enable people, even a «single person,» to cause widespread violence, the report said.

There is no record in history of such widespread violence and anxiety as mark our time.

We have seen widespread violence to keep our children from fair and equitable education.

It was meant to save the world, and it accepted widespread violence and destruction as a probable side effect.

She realized how crucial it was to make people understand how serious and widespread violence against Indigenous women and girls was, right across the country.

Though Kenya's last election in 2013 was mainly peaceful, the country plunged into widespread violence in the aftermath of the 2007 vote.

Exactly how does a simple labour dispute escalate into widespread violence?

«It is also on record that during the 2011 election campaign, President Buhari's inciting statement led to widespread violence by his supporters in the North after he lost.

It is the first widespread violence in decades.

The great constitutional clash between the Commons and the Lords, which saw the Bill rejected in 1831, prompted widespread violence that frightened the political and social establishment.

The APC further argued that if election in Southern Ijaw should be cancelled on the ground of violence, then the entire polls ought to have been cancelled as there was also widespread violence in other local councils.

The day after huge student protests ended in widespread violence including an attack on a car containing Prince Charles, the assessment of the police response begins.

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups in Nigeria have called for the cancellation of the January 6th council elections in the 25 local government areas of Delta State, adducing alleged widespread violence and electoral malpractices as reasons.

Nigeria, for instance, ranks 30th in terms of overall business environment, because of widespread violence and corruption among other things, yet it ranked first for its entrepreneur pipeline.

The website, called «Signs of End Times,» says pretty close to the top that they «never set dates,» but have drawn their conclusion from things like natural disasters, widespread violence, immorality and Christians around the world being persecuted.

When we look at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;

Their joint message was to ask voters to participate in a peaceful election, avoiding the widespread violence and displacement that took place after voting in 2007.

Given the widespread violence of the 2007 election, which saw about 1,500 killed and 300,000 persons displaced, [ii] both domestic and international actors are carefully watching developments in the run - up to the 2013 elections and searching for a strategy that will dodge previous pitfalls.

Five years ago, lack of faith in Kenya's judiciary meant that challenges to the poll results played out in the streets, leading to widespread violence that swept across the country.

But, as Fraser shows, the passing of the Great Reform Bill was not just about dry electoral detail, but set against a background of widespread violence and fear of revolution, as was seen in France in 1830.

We should not also lose sight of the fact that the widespread violence following relatively orderly balloting in elections in Kenya on 27 December 2007, and in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2008 accentuate the significance of understanding the electoral tension before, during and after elections.

As it were, the PDP seemed to be coasting to victory before the election in Southern Ijaw was cancelled due to widespread violence and late commencement of the voting process.

Caught in the middle of a brutal civil war, six Liberian missionaries in Monrovia flee the widespread violence of their native country.

«We are pleased to see the new federal government's commitment to recognizing the legacy of colonization on Indigenous peoples and its direct relationship to the widespread violence that Indigenous women suffer.

The safety and human rights of Indigenous women and girls in BC continue to be threatened by widespread violence.»