Sentence examples for end of widespread from inspiring English sources

The beginning of the end of widespread gun ownership came when the feudal warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) unified Japan, then disarmed the peasant population by banning civilians from owning swords and firearms in 1588.

Despite this, media presence is still required and necessary for accurate reporting, particularly over something as contentious as Occupy, which has been at the receiving end of widespread police brutality and violence over the last few months.

As British officials promised to end days of widespread riots with "more robust policing," and 16,000 officers fanned out across London, American readers might be surprised to learn that most members of the force charged with ending the rioting remain unarmed.

The Treaty of Westphalia (1648), which released prisoners without ransom, is generally taken as marking the end of the era of widespread enslavement of prisoners of war.

They wonder whether this might signal the beginning of the end of the widespread presence of Internet marketers in mass-media advertising.

The falls exceeded even those of the UK's largest banks yesterday, which were on the wrong end of a widespread sell-off in financial stocks that saw the FTSE 100 close 91 points down at 5,752.

This meant he was on the receiving end of our widespread assumption that when it comes to service industry employees – especially those we can't see – normal rules of engagement do not apply.

2009 could (and should) be the catalyst for a landslide of changes, including the end of the widespread sale of products that quietly poison us and our children.

A3 A Battle in Congo Ends Rwandan troops drove Ugandan forces from Congo's third-largest city after a fierce seven-hour battle that ended a week of widespread shelling and enabled the United Nations to deploy forces between the two armies and prepare for their withdrawal.

Rwandan troops drove Ugandan forces from this city, Congo's third largest, after a fierce seven-hour battle today that ended a week of widespread shelling and enabled the United Nations to deploy forces between the two armies and prepare for their withdrawal.

Results show that in 2007 written policies on most types of end-of-life decisions were widespread in acute hospitals (euthanasia: 97%, do-not-resuscitate decisions: 98%, palliative sedation: 79%).