Today on our program, we visit a town in the western state of Arizona that was saved from being a ghost town by a violent history.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

This forces apart pieces of the Earth's surface in a violent earthquake.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

He became a violent alcoholic and then had a mental breakdown.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

He is here for a violent crime -- assault and battery.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

a frightening bellow that gave Olive a violent shark.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Susan Kelly-Dreiss grew up in a violent home.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The Obama administration considers Pakistan key to its strategy to fight a violent Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Kabeer Faye acknowledges that while many believe Islam is a violent religion, the Islam she knows and embraces is a religion of mercy and compassion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

Israel pulled out of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in 2005, and today it is controlled by Hamas, a violent Islamic militant group that refuses to recognize the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

Despite the nature of the election, staged under a violent backdrop, Miliband said he felt it was still possible to have a final result that the people of Afghanistan can have confidence in.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations;

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Other lesser known acts include a fairly new band from Australia called Violent Soho and the Nigerian-German soul singer Nneka Egbuna.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

I stood up and argued about silly things, in a high voice and with violent hand movements.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Some turned violent. In the North, a political party was created to oppose the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King,Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Their leaders said they were a non-violent democracy movement representing poor and rural people.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

Cesar's mother,Juana, taught him much about the importance of leading a non-violent life.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

O'Neill was an Irish-American with a dark and violent view of human nature.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

It was so violent a crash that the whole house shook.

VOA: special.2009.10.31