Sentences with phrase «spiraling violence»

"Spiraling violence" refers to a situation where acts of violence continue to increase in frequency, intensity, or scope, often leading to a worsening or escalating cycle of conflict. It suggests that violence begets more violence, creating a dangerous and difficult-to-control situation. Full definition
The proposal is still in its earliest stages but Carnright said a series of violent incidents, including a January nightclub shooting in Lloyd and the Easter Sunday killing at a New Paltz bar, both linked to Poughkeepsie incidents, highlighted the impact of spiraling violence on Ulster County.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in four areas hardest hit by spiraling violence on Saturday.
As are the leagues, which come and go, often failing not for lack of interest but for spiraling violence.
Did it have to be set in Chicago, already tarred as a place of spiraling violence?
Security analysts pin the spiraling violence on fights over heroin production, which cartels have turned to as several U.S. states loosen their marijuana laws.
One of them is a worship service I participated in about seven years ago, with Christians from all denominations who met to pray for peace amidst the spiraling violence of the Iraq war.
If the romance seldom seems «true», the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod - Jacobean kind of way.
The collection of news headlines reiterates the gloom of spiraling violence and the cheapening of human existence in contemporary society, deconstructing the varied impressions, views, pathos and emotions of an artist who has been a long - time resident in a foreign land far from her native Belgium.
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