How to Use anti-violence in a Sentence

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• Now in its second year, the office has worked on securing funding and distributing it to the network of nonprofits that oversees the city’s gang intervention and anti-violence programs.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Luke Chase was an early member of the anti-violence coalition in Portland, where he's lived for the past eight years with his wife and four children.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
• Rush plans to offer his backing at an event on the city’s South Side that will include an anti-violence march, according to a spokeswoman for the Vallas campaign.
  — Natasha Korecki, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Texas' gun laws have long come under scrutiny from gun reform groups and anti-violence activists who argue that too many loopholes put firearms in the wrong hands.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• Cannon-Grant started the anti-violence nonprofit in 2017 and emerged as a local leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• Holzer has created public signage and projections for anti-gun, anti-violence and get-out-the-vote drives since the mid 1980s.
  — Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• The In Between singer has been vocal in her support of a ceasefire in Gaza, sharing anti-violence messaging across her social media.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• The vaunted anti-violence unit launched in November 2021 when the city’s murder rate was soaring and the community was calling for action.
  — Michael Kosnar, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The result: More deaths than ever This anti-violence strategy has shown results.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• And the bill would allow a gun used in a homicide to be destroyed, a rallying cry for anti-violence advocates in Louisville in the aftermath of last year's Old National Bank shooting.
  — Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the city’s budget last year included more than $150 million for anti-violence efforts, some of it in the form of grants to organizations that could match teenagers with jobs or provide safe places for students after school.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• As someone who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction and became an anti-violence advocate, Hunt said addressing root causes of behavior is the way to change it.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
• In the weeks since his death, anti-violence advocates organized a vigil calling for a number of reforms, including the creation of a civilian review board.
  — Mike Catalini, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Also, the available data on U.S. school shootings shows most shooters were not using psychiatric medicines, which have an anti-violence effect.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
• One of the bill's provisions would allow guns used in a homicide to be destroyed, a rallying cry for anti-violence advocates in Louisville in the aftermath of last year's Old National Bank shooting.
  — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2024
• Pannell noted then that although there are many anti-violence programs in the district, most residents are not attending or are being touched by those efforts.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
• In the short-term, the office is working with nonprofits to oversee the city’s gang intervention and anti-violence programs, as well as manage the expansion of unarmed teams that respond to emergency calls.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• Clinton Noble is a case manager at Helper Foundation, a youth anti-violence nonprofit that helped found the holiday.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• The fatal shooting of Seabrooks, who worked for the anti-violence organization Paterson Healing Collective, has sparked protests and calls for reform.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Our historical consultant, Nikita Shepherd, has been working on that with input from the anti-violence project.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 16 July 2023
• Workers from a local anti-violence organization also fanned out on the block, knocking on doors and looking for witnesses.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
• The shooting occurred shortly after her father purchased ice cream for her, according to anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• The causes are varied, and the Jenesse Center nor other specific anti-violence initiatives are named or specified after 2013.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• In Brownsville, Brooklyn, Rashaan Brown, who works for an anti-violence group, had a different perspective on recent community-police relations.
  — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The 20% annual decrease, which city leaders called the largest ever, suggests Baltimore’s ongoing anti-violence efforts are working.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Traditional anti-violence strategies, such as the mediation program Safe Streets, may have trouble reaching young people, researchers have suggested.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• Before the pandemic, an intern at Pittsburgh’s main anti-violence organization scanned social media posts by young people considered at risk of becoming involved in conflicts.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
• In July 2017, Simpson was granted parole, with the parole board citing his family support, good behavior behind bars and completion of anti-violence classes while incarcerated as reasons for his early release.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• Modernizing our approach by investing in mentorship and anti-violence groups within our communities can steer youth away from violence and promote community mediation.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024