We only use them when a confrontation becomes violent,

It's very dangerous to flee during a violent confrontation.

I am ready to sign the decree if the situation becomes violent.

He was quiet, but when he got angry about something, he would get violent.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself

That's when we all realized that we weren't going to take any pushing anymore. We were going to push back.