2.4 The authors state that the Bootboys have a reputation in Norway for their propensity to use violence, and cite 21 particular instances of both threats and the use of violence by the Bootboys between February 1998 and February 2002.

The combination of two fundamental human impulses the evolutionary propensity to move and the evolutionary propensity to distrust newcomers, who frequently brought disease, famine and war often gave rise to tension.

In other words, the propensity to find these patterns goes up when there's a lack of control.

Those developments will buttress war fighting capabilities and enhance the propensity for use.

Environmental liability can also counter the propensity to resort to illicit waste trade in the wake of trade restrictions.

She concluded by observing that poverty could accentuate women's vulnerability and therefore their propensity to commit criminal acts.

They thus have a greater propensity to establish linkages with local firms than their counterparts from developed countries.

They are conscious of a growing need for such alternative means in order to counteract the propensity to carry weapons.

It was known that individuals with a propensity to move tended to do so repeatedly, if only within the same country.

The propensity of a weapon system to produce a large number of ERW would be a feature of this analysis.

Yet the increase in private consumption is expected to be much lower, because of a fall in the average propensity to consume.

Growth in private consumption will, nevertheless, decrease only slightly, as the average propensity to consume is expected to increase in 1996 97.

An attempt to broaden the license to legalized coercion is in itself indicative of the failure to recognize the root causes of the current international crisis, that is, militarism and the propensity to resort to exclusion, coercion and violence on the part of States as well as non State actors.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration.

Could how you speak about time, could how your language forces you to think about time, affect your propensity to behave across time?

So a lot of people are following this person very influential and they have a propensity to talk about what's on TV.

IFRC was increasingly concerned about the propensity of Governments to see the establishment of camps as the standard solution to an influx of asylum seekers.

R amp D intensity tends to increase with firm size, and concentrated industries have a higher R amp D turnover ratio and propensity to patent.

France s seemingly natural propensity to intervene is reinforced in this case by three key factors Sarkozy, Qaddafi, and the context of a wider Arab revolution.

If you do this again and again, the propensity, the tendencies for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it.

They use political violence to intimidate, physical violence to terrorize and mental or emotional violence to undermine.

However, by taking at face value the predominantly publicized interpretations of the threats emanating from one dominant global perspective, the report has lost sight of what is probably the more fundamental threat that lies at the root of the current international maladies, namely the propensity to resort to coercion and violence by State and non State actors.

Violence leads to violence, at least in my view.

How do we deal with our deepest differences, given the human propensity for conflict and the human genius at devising weapons of enormous destruction?

Even primates display physiological and behavioral signs after losses that are unmistakably similar to sadness among humans. There is little doubt that evolution designed people to have a propensity to become sad after such situations.

Remember, violence begets violence.

This might be an opportunity for developing countries that seek to attract FDI, as developing country firms have shown a much larger propensity to invest in developing economies than their counterparts from developed countries.

Robust, prone to violence...

From generation to generation, violence begets violence, as the abused grow up to become abusers.

Churches had begun to include violence against women and domestic violence in their agendas, and their attempts to combat such violence were proving to be effective.

In analysing sources of violence in Haiti, it is clear to us that political violence and criminal violence fuel each other.

Violence only generates more violence.

A law on domestic violence has been drafted. It defines the concept of domestic violence , to include physical, psychological and sexual violence.

Violence against women and domestic violence

This generates violence and counter violence.

Violence related to harmful practices

Responses to Violence Against Women

Violence continues to affect Mogadishu.

Ms. Pimentel said that she wished to know whether the Government had initiated studies on violence against women, including violence in the family and sexual violence, with a view to drafting specific policies and legislation to protect women from such violence.

The approach of responding to violence with violence was futile, for it offered no solutions.

(a) who uses violence or threatens violence

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Domestic and sexual violence

The increase in violence has included general and organized criminal violence and family violence.

The effort also included a model to provide attention to victims of sexual violence, as it was observed that sexual violence could be a component of intra family violence.

Violence against women is condemned and countries have set up legal measures to eliminate such violence.