Sentence examples for rate of murder from inspiring English sources

Nevada, where prostitution is largely legal, has the highest rate of murder of women of any US state.

It comes amid news that the number of violent crimes has risen sharply due to a surge in the rate of murder, rape, gun and knife offences in London and the south east.

The rate of murder and attempted murder has almost halved; that of violent assault is down by a quarter; and that of burglary of residential properties has dropped by 15%.

This can be compared with the number of murders in the general population that year of 660 (which would include the six murders that took place inside), and based on an average overall population of 60,000,000 in England and Wales would produce a rate of murder of one per 100,000 of the general population.

Even as the rate of murder, robbery, assault and other types of violent and property crimes has declined or flattened in the last decade, there has been a marked increase in accounting and corporate infractions, fraud in health care, government procurement and bankruptcy, identity theft, illegal corporate espionage and intellectual property piracy, federal and state officials say.

Even on an "average" year, between 1990-2003, when two prisoners were murdered, this still this equates with a rate of three murders per 100,000 within the prison population, and is thus still three times greater than the rate of murder in the community.

States with less restrictive gun control laws have as much as eight times the rate of murder-suicides as those with the most restrictive gun control laws".

Nonetheless, the murder rate for women in South Africa is more than three times the worldwide average, and the rate of murder-by-partner more than four times.But things are getting better.

This has become more difficult to do, however, because the rate of murders has increased recently and the targets have become bigger.

Chicago's soaring rate of murders and shootings this year has captured national attention and become an issue in the presidential race.

The armed conflict is felt much more acutely in the countryside than in the cities, where the present government has improved security (unless you are a trade unionist where the rate of murders remains disturbingly high).