It could be a horrible thing, like an act of violence or a disfiguring disease.
For every act of violence meted out to her, Lila has a swift response.
It is an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred anyplace in America.
"It's now time for mourning those who we lost in this senseless act of violence, " he said.
Jail is appropriate for anyone who uses a gun in the commission of an act of violence.
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Picoult's novel told the story of a bullied, alienated high school student who commits an act of violence.
My prayers are with all the survivors and families of those lost in this cowardly act of violence.
Never had an act of violence seemed so heinous, so horrifying in America.
Our actions will not prevent every senseless act of violence in this country.
In order to keep a random act of violence from being possible, the coping mechanism is most often to place blame.
Another party, the Coalition of the Left and Progress, issued a statement condemning the attack as "a blind act of violence".
"The heinous crimes committed by Seung-Hui Cho were an unprecedented act of violence that no one could have foreseen, " Mr. Owczarski said.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: For every act of violence there is encouraging progress in Iraq that's had to capture on the evening news.
"That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful, " Singh, himself a Sikh, said.
Ellory was the winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010 for his novel, A Simple Act of Violence.
We can do better to make sure that fewer parents have to endure the pain of losing a child to an act of violence.
Strauss-Kahn "absolutely contests having committed the slightest act of violence of any nature whatsoever, " his lawyers Henri Leclerc, Frederique Baulieu and Richard Malka said.
No single law -- no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.
The fact that we can't prevent every act of violence doesn't mean we can't steadily reduce the violence, and prevent the very worst violence.
Oliver King, defending, said it had not been a gratuitous act of violence or part of a pattern of abuse going on for many months.
And as I said on Sunday night, there's no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.
The National Association of School Psychologists, which has 22, 000 members, has provided information about ways to help children begin recovering from "this senseless act of violence".
Around the globe, news about domestic violence is neatly reported by the media, usually packaged in terms of a single incident or a one-time only act of violence.
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Mr. Kirsch shows that this was no daring act of armed resistance but simply a confused and misguided young man driven to commit a random act of violence.
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The point though is that the act of violence is still open to dispute centuries later, and many people tend to fall back upon emotional rather than factual certainty.
It would also cover, no doubt, dozens of incidents in which the fact that a victim is black or homosexual or Catholic is purely incidental to a random act of violence.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti described the attacks as "a cowardly act of violence that prompts disdain and leaves us shocked with its suffering and horror" in a message to President Obama.
And there's no more poignant or painful reminder of how important it is that we do so than the loss experienced by Dennis and Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew was stolen in a terrible act of violence 11 years ago.
DeLarge is eventually jailed for murder, during which time he undergoes an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - it causes him to suffer nausea whenever he contemplates an act of violence.
"I have 1, 900 postal inspectors nationwide, and we have 1, 400 uniformed postal police officers at our major facilities, and what I have told my people, unless it is an act of violence or something you have to respond to, you have one case you're working on, and that's this one, " said Kenneth Weaver, chief postal inspector for the U.S. Postal Service.
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