But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends.

For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

Ælfheah was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death.

During Clinton's re-election campaign he said, " My 1994 crime bill expanded the death penalty for drug kingpins, murderers of federal law enforcement officers, and nearly 60 additional categories of violent felons.

Under Texas law, the death penalty can only be issued if the jury is convinced that the defendant is not only guilty, but will commit further violent crimes in the future if he is not put to death.

Apart from violent overthrow, a head of state's position can be lost in several ways, including death, another by expiration of the constitutional term of office, abdication, or resignation.

Where the cause of death is unknown, the coroner may order a post mortem examination in order to determine whether the death was violent.

Since this fountain ends in death, it may also simply represent the life span of a human, from violent birth to a sinking end.

There has been debate over the reason for Lindow Man's death, for the nature of his demise was violent, perhaps ritualistic ; after a last meal of charred bread, Lindow Man was strangled, hit on the head, and his throat cut.

As the peat was cleaned off the body in the laboratory, it became clear that Lindow Man had suffered a violent death.

Notably, the initial verse, " Poland has not yet died " was replaced with " Poland has not yet perished ", suggesting a more violent cause of the nation's possible death.

Their slow-moving, curious nature, coupled with dense coastal development, has led to many violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships, leading frequently to maiming, disfigurement, and even death.

Her role often involves premonitions of a particular warrior's violent death, suggesting a link with the Banshee of later folklore.

The Prophecy of Berchan is apparently alone in near contemporary sources in reporting a violent death, calling it a kinslaying.

Thomas Hobbes instead founded a contractualist theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they sought ( happiness ) was subject to contention, but a broad consensus could form around what they feared ( violent death at the hands of another ).

Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.

This violent phase of the region's history culminated in a series of events in which the British overcame the indigenous people, including the execution of the Whadjuk elder Midgegooroo, the death of his son Yagan in 1833, and the Battle of Pinjarra in 1834.

After the violent death of his father, Sennacherib encountered numerous problems in establishing his power and faced threats to his domain.

Forensic analysis also suggests a violent death, or perhaps a ritualistic sacrifice, due to presence of noose marks and a puncture wound.

* 23 May 1992 – Able to a violent explosion on Autostrada A29 ( Italy ) section between the ' Punta Raisi Airport and Palermo, caused by the Mafia, causing the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, a hero in the fight against organized crime.

John McLoughlin lost one son to a violent death.

Although the theocratic Bogd Khaanate of Mongolia still nominally continued, with successive series of violent struggles, Soviet influence got ever stronger, and after the death of the Bogd Khaan (" Great Khan ", or " Emperor "), the Mongolian People's Republic was proclaimed on November 26, 1924.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

He was a big thick beefy violent man.

There was no hint of a violent struggle now.

When police arrived the man was still violent, Slate said.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

" He was wounded when an artillery shell exploded near his horse, throwing him to the ground in a violent fall.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

That was so because it not only was proof of excessive pride, but also resulted in violent acts by or to those involved.

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

Alfonso was a fierce, violent man, a soldier and nothing else, whose piety was wholly militant.

The pre-World War I period in Britain was a period of worker strikes and civil unrest involving many violent confrontations between the police / troops, and civilians.

He was an unapologetic ladies man who enjoyed the company of beautiful women, but he was street-smart and could engage in violent hand to hand fighting if the moment called for it.

But, by the publication of Antony's will, which had been put into his hands by the traitor Plancus, and by carefully letting it be known at Rome what preparations were going on at Samos, and how entirely Antony was acting as the agent of Cleopatra, Octavian produced such a violent outburst of feeling that he easily obtained Antony's deposition from the consulship of 31, for which he had been designated, and a vote for a proclamation of war against Cleopatra, well understood to mean against Antony, though he was not named.

The capital was moved to San José in 1824, followed by a violent rivalry with Cartago.

A different story tells of a golem that fell in love, and when rejected, became the violent monster seen in most accounts.

Stock footage of a massive Earthquake from The Mysterians was employed to make the earthquake caused by Kong and Godzilla's plummet into the ocean much more violent than the tame tremor seen in the Japanese version.

The Tartars ruled by Kubla Khan were seen in the tradition Coleridge worked from as a violent, barbaric people and were used in that way when Coleridge would compare others to Tartars.

However, Luanda has recently seen an increase in violent crime, particularly in the shanty towns that surround the colonial urban core.

Through the medium of Scott's novels, the violent religious and political conflicts of the country's recent past could be seen as belonging to history – which Scott defined, as the subtitle of Waverley ("' Tis Sixty Years Hence ") indicates, as something that happened at least 60 years ago.

In 1933 – 34, seen in retrospect as the heyday of the Depression-era outlaw, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde.

The protest began with 3, 000 students in Beijing displaying their anger at the announcement of the Versailles Treaty's concessions to Japan yet rapidly took a violent turn as protesters began attacking the homes and offices of ministers who were seen as cooperating with, or in the direct pay of the Japanese.

" I said the film is the most violent I have ever seen.

Many such artists found themselves at the heart of controversies over lyrics that were seen as glorifying the murder of police officers and other crimes, similar to outcries over violent thuggish lyrics in American gangsta rap.

It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the sixteenth century.

He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck ( 1840 ) and The Slave Ship ( 1840 ).

Equipped with a shiny bald head and a quiet but intense voice to go with his trademark penetrating gaze, he specialised in portraying insane or evil characters, including the violent alcoholic Doc Tydon in Wake in Fright ( 1971 ), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer-Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad ( 1974 ), Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), the first film in which the villain's face is clearly seen.

The historical daughter of Hermocrates died after a violent attack by soldiers ; that Callirhoe merely appears to be dead after being kicked by Chaereas has been seen as a deliberate change allowing Chariton " to resurrect her for adventures abroad ".

The working classes who had previously seen Wilkes as a " man of the people ", then criticised him as a hypocrite ; his middle class support was scared off by the violent action.

Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, and called it " the most violent film I have ever seen ", also reflecting on how the movie personally impacted him as a former altar boy.

This is the most violent film I have ever seen.

He returned to Kentucky after the war, but found it embroiled in violent feuding between those who had supported the Union and those who had supported the Confederacy, so he sold his property and left, explaining, " I've seen enough bloodshed ; I didn't want any more.

" The 2010 / 11 BCS showed overall violence was down 47 per cent on the level seen at its peak in 1995 ; representing nearly two million fewer violent offences per year.

These episodes were referred to simply as Jonny Quest in their opening title sequence ( the same ones seen on the original series since the censoring ), and were noticeably less violent and more " kid-friendly " than the 1960s originals, and introduced the new regular character Hardrock (" The Monolith Man "), an ancient man made of stone.

This negligence was probably seen as criminal at the time of the story's setting, but the poem also presents Lalli as a violent madman.

In a cliffhanger final episode, Catherine is seen walking down a tunnel into a chamber, where Vincent is suffering from a violent madness.

The truce is seen as a symbolic moment of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of modern history.

" Legionaries engaged in violent or murderous acts often turned themselves in to be arrested, and it became common that violence was seen as a necessary step in a world that expected a Second Coming of Christ.

: A violent young man who is first seen being beaten up by a gang of thugs led by a man named Ozawa.

The Batenburgers under Jan van Batenburg preserved the violent millennialist stream of Anabaptism seen at Münster.