It described a pervasive culture of secrecy, notably surrounding Mr. Ban.
But several Chinese scholars and articles in the official press have also described a pervasive pattern of torture by the police and prosecutors, usually with the acquiescence of the courts.
Greenwashing, it seems to me, can also describe a pervasive genre of food packaging designed to make sure that manufacturers grab their slice of the $25 billion that American shoppers spend each year on natural or organic food.
The three former service members, the first military sexual assault victims to testify before a Senate panel, described a pervasive culture of harassment and danger in which victims had little or no redress.
New arrivals in Dharamsala describe a pervasive Chinese security presence, severe restrictions on movement, night raids to round up activists and only sporadic access to telephone and internet links.
This is the third completed investigation into a legislator's behavior since an October open letter describing a "pervasive" culture of harassment in California politics pushed the issue of sexual misconduct into the forefront.
The attorney general's report lays out how the racing board repeatedly alerted the association about suspect practices, only to be met by what the report describes as a pervasive "see-no-evil" culture.
They remain committed to the outdoors, despite what Joyce describes as a pervasive snobbery against such work: "It's not a consumer product, and there's no kudos attached to the spaces where it's performed". Even the risk of very public failure doesn't put them off.
In the psychiatric association's diagnostic manual, antisocial personality disorder is described as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood".
But they did not notice or act to prevent what former employees of some loan servicers and law firms now describe as a pervasive disregard for the legal requirements to seize a home.
