Sentence examples for violent epidemic from inspiring English sources

While a horrific gang rape in New Delhi has transfixed India and drawn attention to a violent epidemic, rape is just one facet of a broad range of violence and discrimination that leads to the deaths of almost two million women a year, researchers say.

Multi-year data show us that transgender women of color are facing a violent epidemic.

In both historic and current measles outbreaks, a brief primary infection followed by lifelong immunity results in violent epidemics.

After all, the Hewitts lived in a gated community, the kind of place where the wealthy shield themselves from South Africa's violent crime epidemic.

Specifically, James and his co-director, Kenny Young, argue that systemic and generational poverty, hyper-segregation, and the neglect of local government all fuel the current violent crime epidemic in the city.

The city's violent-crime epidemic shows no signs of waning, with a murder rate far ahead of its nearest American rival.

And he has some other things to worry about, namely the epidemic of violent deaths among his transvestite and transsexual prostitute friends.

Murder rates around the country are far below the record highs of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a crack epidemic spawned violent turf battles.

It is part of a relatively recent trend to look at violent crime as an epidemic and try to bring the rigor of the scientific method to studying it.

Several close shaves since December include a bomb that failed to detonate near the British Airways check-in counter at Nairobi's main airport, ludicrously shrugged off by the interior minister as "an exploding light-bulb .This year has witnessed a sharp rise in violight-bulb .Thisadyear epidemic levels.

More recently, local officials have tried treating violent crime as an epidemic, something whose spread can be contained or even prevented.