1.   And, the figures used to tally the violence over nearly seven weeks continued to rise.

2.   But the crackdown, including a series of police raids and mass arrests, have sharply reduced political violence over the last few months.

3.   By emphasizing waggish, nonstop violence over a cool, slow scare, Sommers and company have made a film as eager to please as it is fatiguing.

4.   Cacho confided that fact later on, also noting that two of his drummers have been killed by street violence over the years.

5.   Congressional leaders stressed that they hoped to keep the Capitol, which has seen sporadic violence over its two centuries, relatively open to visitors.

6.   For now, at least, it is difficult to see a way out of the bitter cycle of violence over Kashmir that seems to endlessly repeat itself.

7.   Israel has had to endure more than its share of political violence over the years.

8.   Most of the speech was devoted to an indictment of religious extremism and intolerance in Pakistan, which has been increasingly torn by sectarian violence over the last decade.

9.   Plans for the mosque have triggered sporadic violence over the course of a two-year political battle that has been cast in religious terms.

10.   So much violence over here is episodic.