Any stealth game is a kind of real-time puzzle game with the option of brutal violence.

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Twice in the last five months, San Francisco sports fans have been the victims of brutal violence at professional games involving arch rivals.

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"The secretary is interested in exploring options that could help end the brutal violence in Syria, but he also recognizes that this is an extremely complex crisis, " a senior Pentagon official said.

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They argue that there are many places in the world where innocent civilians face brutal violence at the hands of their government, and America should not be expected to police the world, particularly when we have so many pressing needs here at home.

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The occasional bursts of violence are brutal, but Imamura manages to bring humor and a gentle poignancy to the affair.

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Karachi manages to hold together because bouts of brutal, though contained, violence are interspersed with dealmaking and calm.

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Possibly, but whatever the truth, it was a brutal reminder of Mexico's scope for organised violence.

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Beginning in the nineteen-eighties, they gradually adopted a strategy that focussed on preventing prison violence rather than on delivering an ever more brutal series of punishments for it.

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The flare-up around violence and attitudes toward women in Indonesia comes amid global outrage over the brutal gang rape and death of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus.

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The US embassy in the capital, Port Moresby, condemned the killing as a "brutal murder", the AFP news agency reports, and evidence of "pervasive gender-based violence" in Papua New Guinea.

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