His father's rages were one thing, but the threat of violence was worse.

Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in a family, especially when inflicted on its most vulnerable members.

Executions for political crimes are extremely rare and confined to persons involved in violence or the threat of violence.

This linkage between a personal attack and property weakened as societies developed but the threat of violence remains a key factor.

For what seemed an eternity we provided a stream of cries, entreaties, bribes, threats of violence, tickling, shouts, warnings of imminent but imagined fire and flood, all to no avail.