Sentence examples for slow violence from inspiring English sources

Coates turns away from such sensational stories and focusses instead on the slow violence of institutional racism.

Slow violence is done on a bigger scale by malnutrition, which stalks half the country's children, the worst rate in the Americas.

Nowadays we love a loud racist — a Donald Sterling tape, a ranting Mel Gibson — but Coates turns away from such sensational stories and focusses instead on the slow violence of institutional racism.

While listening to "Hopelessness," I thought about the concept of "slow violence," the theorist Rob Nixon's term for threats that unravel gradually, with a nearly imperceptible rhythm, like deforestation or an oil spill dangers that can't be conveyed in a single image.

If this history goes unrecognized, what we label colorblind adaptation planning is likely to perpetuate what Rob Nixon calls the "slow violence" of environmental racism, characterized by policies that benefit some populations while abandoning others.

Emergencies like the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the slow violence of climate change cry out for active decision support.

The truce slowed violence in Gaza, although Palestinians said Israel broke it by hitting a house in Gaza City.

Israel's "humanitarian window" for parts of Gaza has ended, having slowed violence over its seven-hour period.

A truce on Monday slowed violence in Gaza, although Palestinians said Israel broke it by hitting a house in Gaza City.

A partial truce slowed violence in Gaza on Monday, but Palestinian officials said a young girl was killed in an airstrike which injured at least 15 others.

More than 100,000 people have been killed since the conflict started with political protests in March 2011, and all international efforts to slow the violence have failed.