Sentence examples for frequent and widespread from inspiring English sources

Protests against government policy are frequent and widespread.

Floods were more frequent and widespread this year than in any I can recall, and the long-term climate forecast is "wet and windy".

"Physical ill treatment and abuse of authority by police officers," Amnesty International said, was "frequent and widespread," although, for a variety of reasons, "only a small number of ill-treatment cases result in judicial complaints".

Amnesty International has accused Spain, the steppingstone to Europe for thousands of poor immigrants, of "frequent and widespread" mistreatment of foreigners and ethnic minorities, including torture, and called for the authorities to adopt a plan to combat racism.

While violence has been less frequent and widespread in Iraq than it was at the height of the insurgency, insurgents have continued to strike at a variety of targets, with the apparent intent of exploiting sectarian and cultural divides.

The general condition of the community in which milling is both frequent and widespread and in which rumour is recurrent is the crucible in which the more highly organized forms of collective behaviour develop.

False beliefs are frequent, common, and widespread.

"There is a reasonably good reason to believe that these blooms are more frequent and more widespread and occurring in places that they didn't before, but it's very hard to talk about a particular year".

In a study published in September, he wrote, "Our data show quite compellingly that war-related looting is most frequent and most widespread in Kurdish and opposition-held areas, which are, perhaps unsurprisingly, also the regions with the weakest centralized authority".

"The trend has generally been that the attacks are getting more frequent and more widespread geographically".

We also make use of the assumption commonly employed in studies of population genetics – that the haplotype which is most frequent and geographically widespread corresponds to the 'ancestral' haplotype [see 41].