It could be a horrible thing, like an act of violence or a disfiguring disease.
It is an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred anyplace in America.
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.
Never had an act of violence seemed so heinous, so horrifying in America.
We can do better to make sure that fewer parents have to endure the pain of losing a child to an act of violence.
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.
"It's strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans, " New Orleans FBI spokeswoman Mary Beth Romig said Monday.
Retreating from that, even after an act of criminal violence, would be to deny dancers and audiences the future of ballet.
"The heinous crimes committed by Seung-Hui Cho were an unprecedented act of violence that no one could have foreseen, " Mr. Owczarski said.
He himself might possibly have dreamed up such an act of sudden violence for one of his plots, but religion would never have been the motive.
And the Vice President, as you know, is an author of the original Violence Against Women Act, is keenly focused on this.
Both "The Tree of Life" (2011), a magnificently transcendent view of a Texas family, and "To the Wonder, " now in theaters, which follows an unhappy couple and an anguished priest, show the consequences of even the smallest act of emotional or physical violence.
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