1.   People have become used to employing violence as a means of resolving conflict or asserting power over others.

2.   Random violence as mobs, gangs, and alienated individuals fight the military and police.

3.   Class boycotts and demonstrations in the preceding month had frequently degenerated into violence as students clashed with the police.

4.   For example, voluntary sector organisations who solely or partly incorporate work on domestic violence as part of their brief, were investigated.

5.   Home Secretary speaks out against rural violence as judge calls for special reforms on lager louts.

6.   Although initially a pacifist faith, medieval Christians embraced violence as a way of spreading their belief.

7.   America cannot turn its back on the conflict, nor should it accept deadlock and escalating violence as regrettable but unavoidable turns in the long road to peace.

8.   And in a December study by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, most of the cities surveyed cited domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness.

9.   And I considered it good taste to leave the violence in as a crucial and important element in telling the story.

10.   Another conclusion was that whatever his motives, Arafat showed that he was not prepared to curb Hamas, and that he had not abandoned violence as an option.