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

VOA: special.2009.02.02

But soon they stopped. For the cow was now in violent pain, and they could see the calf's whole head.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

During the nineteen fifties, he helped organize non-violent sit-in protests and boycotts of segregated white businesses.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

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

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

The blockade followed the violent takeover of Gaza by Hamas in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

In some places, the strikes turned into riots, and the riots became violent.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

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

VOA: special.2011.01.04

It would not be long before the situation in Kansas became violent.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

"The world has been a very violent place in oil frontier places when we have had enough to go round.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

In the event of violent protests, troops will isolate areas set for demolition and jam the cell phones of settlers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

This year's hunt in the Southern Ocean has been punctuated by violent clashes between the Japanese fleet and radical conservationists.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

More than 15,000 people have died in a series of violent clashes since the return to civil democracy in 1999.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

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

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

He left office after months of violent protests by opponents who charged he had abused the presidency in promoting his business interests.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Aung San Suu Kyi led Burma's non-violent resistance movement for democracy, and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

But many of the NATO troops are not allowed to engage in combat operations or even to operate in violent parts of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

Other countries have contributed about 39,000 soldiers, although many are not allowed to engage in combat or serve in violent areas of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The rebel group failed in its violent quest to establishment an ethnic homeland on the island, which is dominated by the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

It says suicide deaths account for more than half of all violent deaths in the world more than all deaths from wars and homicides combined.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Some Western diplomats have expressed concern about the rise of violent Islamic extremism in Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Today,photojournalist Kian Amani is starting a new life in Washington DC, but last summer he was covering the violent election aftermath on the streets of Tehran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

The group's violent takeover of Gaza in 2007 prompted Israel to impose the blockade.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

"We have battled against the odds in a province that has become increasingly violent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

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

Fambul Tok has helped thousands of people in the war-battered south and east of Sierra Leone come to terms with what happened there over a decade of violent conflict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"But it is an important election in the sense that they need to be free,fair and non violent in order for Macedonia to qualify for certain EU accession membership qualifications."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22