Violence in example sentence

That's why sounding the alarm about the impact of racism on health in the United States, the ongoing institutional and interpersonal violence that people of color face, compounded by our tragic legacy of 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 60 years of imperfect equality, sounding the alarm about this is central to doing my job right as New York City's Health Commissioner.

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In Georgia, after years of stalemate, we saw a full-scale resurgence of violence in August, 2008.

In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.

And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.

Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.

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