Am I saying that gasoline lead is fully responsible for the nationwide drop in violent crime over the past two decades?
The land around it bristles with monuments marking its violent past, but in the village itself there is not the slightest whiff of history.
The paintings recall a violent past that many in east Belfast are keen to forget.
She said Mrs Sinclair was drunk and had been violent in the past to her husband of 10 months.
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Egyptians usually bear this with good-natured stoicism, but in the past, violent Islamist extremists have found fertile ground for their ideas in the poor quarters of Egypt's cities.
Defense attorneys had to get jurors to believe that despite no evidence of Alexander ever having been violent in the past, he had attacked Arias on several occasions, and did so again on the day of his death.
Nel also said Pistorius has shown a lack of realization of what he has done and cast doubt on Pistorius' claims that one of the reasons for his extreme fear that night was that he had been a victim of burglary and violent crime in the past.
Though some types of crime have gone down, the rate of violent house robbery has doubled in the past five years.
His personal theory is that the warm temperatures in the past few days are causing a violent and rapid thaw underground.
These members also worry that the Muslim Brotherhood, a controversial group with a violent past, has an undue influence over the mosque.
In the past year, violent clashes in Port Said, a coastal province along the Suez Canal, have highlighted the longstanding resentment residents there feel toward Cairo.
The frequency of strong-to-violent tornadoes has been cut in half during the past 40 years.
In return for international bailout funds, Greece has agreed to a harsh austerity program and labor market reforms -- measures that have led to violent street demonstrations in the past.
Do we really believe that James Harrison of the Steelers or Dunta Robinson of the Falcons played any differently on those violent plays than they have in playing football for the past 15 years?
The report also says rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than many other countries in western Europe.
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"It is a chilling reminder of a violent past that everyone in the community hoped we had left behind, " they added.
So while the number of people seriously injured in gun-related violent incidents has actually gone up almost 50 percent in the past decade, you are more likely to survive a gun shot today than would have been the case even a few years ago, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
In the past week there have been three violent attacks on women in the state.
Women are less likely than in the past to be the target of violent crimes, including homicide.
Prosecutors say he is a leading member of a notorious Boca Juniors "barra brava", a group of supporters which has in the past been linked to hooliganism and violent behaviour.
Whereas violent crime against men has declined in the past five years, violence against women has increased.
Earlier, the hearing was told officers were aware of his violent past.
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Selling over the past couple of trading sessions has been violent and panicky, as steep declines in the price of bullion were accompanied by the breaking of key technical levels, sparking stop-loss selling, margin calls, and then risk managers and asset allocators offloading commodity holdings to build cash levels.
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Unemployment has averaged 11.3% in Flint the past three years and it ranks third worst for violent crime behind just Detroit and Memphis, Tenn.
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The anti-social behaviour figures follow the release of the UK Peace Index, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, on Wednesday, which found rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade.
In the past year, you were more likely to suffer a violent attack or have your car broken into in Norwich or Peterborough than in London or Birmingham.
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Known collectively as the Crater Lakes, their 65m deep, tranquil ultramarine waters belie a violent past: both were formed anywhere from 17, 000 to 10, 000 years ago by a massive volcanic eruption.
The trend in firearm-related homicides is part of a broad nationwide decline in violent crime over past two decades, including incidents not involving firearms.
Of all the changes in the past 20 years, none has more threatened our sense of national well-being than the explosion of violent crime.
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