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domestic violence

  1. acts of violence or abuse against a person living in one's household, especially a member of one's immediate family.


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The report builds on a recent UN report documenting the high economic costs worldwide of domestic violence.

Turkey is not the only country trying to convince the private sector that domestic violence is their problem, too.

The report reframes the issue of domestic violence as not just a problem for society, but also for business.

This year, Kalac was arrested for domestic violence in a case that apparently did not involve Coplin.

Adriana Cazorla immigrated from Mexico in 1995 and is a domestic violence survivor.

Protection against domestic violence is added with equal propriety.

Those interests were, he contended, menaced by “domestic violence” evidently beyond the control of the state power.

The words domestic violence might seem to refer solely to slave insurrections; but such is not the meaning of the words.

Who was to protect them against foreign invasion or domestic violence?

When war and domestic violence were the main cause of social disturbance, the consumption aspect was most prominent.

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