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‘A violence can be physical.’

[⟨det violence.n⟩ physical.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That’s almost just as bad as the person actually doing the physical violence themselves to you.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They just reacted with physical violence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Not through lawsuits, not through direct threats of physical violence, but by attacking Kev’s
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

McCain told [Barral] that he had not been subjected to’ ’ physical or moral violence,’ ‘and’’ lamented in the interview that’ if I hadn’t been shot down, I would have become an admiral at a younger age than my father.” ’
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’ve yet to bring myself to actual physical violence against her, but sometimes it’s as if she’s goading me into it.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Some of us grew up with parents who were emotionally or physically absent, while others grew up with physical violence and verbal abuse.
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In the British National Corpus:

The violence, of course, may not be physical; in some of the families that Laing and his associates have described, privacy becomes isolation, togetherness becomes a mutual and corrosive manipulation, and love becomes a commodity or weapon (Laing et al.,
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Sexual situations, references of S & M, physical violence, bad language Notes: Takes place in the future.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This massive underworld theft of the American purse is going on in full view of the public, who are being threatened not with physical violence, if they don’t hand over the loot, but with economic violence, as this “Potomac Posse’ ’ has stated that if we don’t succumb to their brazen threats, they’re going to crash the U.S. economy and the world’s.
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In Wikipedia:

Charges leveled against him after the end of the First World War included the failure to maintain a decent condition of the camp which led to many deaths as a result of dysentery, failure to prevent the commission of crimes and to punish the perpetrators thereof and, as well as physical violence directed towards prisoners.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The bonds are strong, but there are the dark sides too, like rivalry, physical violence, the fear of failure?. Yet, no one hollers, no one screams and ever so often, you feel a tug at your heart.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Comments are welcome… unfortunately those involving the application of physical violence won *n’t be acceptable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Could an image like this stir up enough hatred and anger to cause real physical violence?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Offending with words is much less harmful than offending with physical violence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I know that part of it is my PMDD not being treated at all for the past four months, and each month I get a little closer to wanting to exact physical violence on the unsuspecting public, but I wouldn’t be inclined to do so if the Great Unwashed weren’t so bloody infuriating!
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In the British National Corpus:

Lord Devlin, for example, could find “nothing to differentiate a threat of a breach of contract from a threat of physical violence”.
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And 1,715 more sentences.

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Queried on 2013-05-22.