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This has contributed to a pent-up anger that explodes in many thousands of acts of social protest, often violent, each year.

As one study of the era puts it, the rich were increasingly portrayed as "not only greedy but often violent and malevolent tyrants. "

An ingrained underclass, Roma are the victims of prejudice, often violent, at home in eastern Europe.

The warning comes in the wake of often violent protests against the handling of the economy across Europe.

strife: Heated, often violent dissension; bitter conflict.

The battles between farmers and the moneyed interests, capital and labor, were long and often violent.

A regime that is confronted with a growing volume of popular protests, often violent, will ignore these needs at its peril.

They include sex offences and are often violent.

Riots, often violent, are a daily occurrence.

K. have been relatively muted compared with the mass, and often violent, protests in countries such as Greece and Spain.

they are prone to irrational , bizarre , and often violent behavior.

Gadhafi last visited Zimbabwe 10 years ago at the height of Mugabe's often violent land-reform program.

An often violent meeting; a clash.

take something away from someone with a quick, often violent, movement

Trigger: v. Be the cause of a sudden (often) violent reaction; set an action or a process in motion