But lawmakers as well as American military commanders are concerned by violence in Iraq, particularly about the possibility that tensions between Arabs and Kurds could expand into widespread violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

"It is a history marked by violence and disease and deprivation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

But Rodolfo Lopez-Negrete says there are still many areas untouched by the crime and violence of the drug trade.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

United States officials say the growing violence shows progress by the Mexican government in fighting the drug trade.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

The expression "to bulldoze" also means to make someone helpless, usually by using power or threatening violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

But the violence and threats by insurgents failed to stop millions of Iraqis from voting.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

President Obama said Monday that he was deeply troubled by the violence.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

Alcohol was linked to deaths caused by accidents, injuries and violence.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The latest violence broke out Thursday after a Thai general supporting the protesters was shot, apparently by a sniper.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Mr.Netanyahu also addressed an upsurge in violence in the Gaza Strip,which is ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

Thai authorities say they spread hate speech and lies and instigated violence during a two-month demonstration by thousands of protesters in Bangkok.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Airstrikes and artillery barrages effectively ended months of negotiations to try to avoid violence by establishing Islamic law in parts of the northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Even before the violence, hotels in Bangkok reported that 20 percent of their reservations were being canceled by travelers concerned by the protests.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"We must recognize the profound pain, particularly in communities affected by the conflict and among so many who lost loved ones to the violence.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

The job is complicated by a large number of overseas voters, as well as people displaced from their homes during years of sectarian violence.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"The violence was initiated by those hardcore Turkish activists who came here looking for a fight.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Violence has plagued visits to the Italian capital by English teams over the last decade.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

The visit here by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns came amid rising concern in India about terrorist violence spillingover again into this country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Instability sparked by ethnic violence in northeast Central African Republic has been made worse by the presence of Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the southeast.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"We are fighting an organization whose brutal violence is driven by so called divine justice.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court announced it was opening a preliminary investigation into the violence - a move hailed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

An International Crisis Group report says that by suppressing peaceful outlets for the opposition to express opinions, the Thai government may actually encourage people to use violence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The Obama administration has boosted the number of federal agents and augmented other resources along the U.S.border with Mexico in response to the increasing violence by drug gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

On the one-month anniversary of that violence, Sow says Guineans want to remember that day by inviting everyone, especially women and young girls to stay at home and pray.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28