Sentence examples for had been widespread from inspiring English sources

Executives later told Parliament they had found nothing to suggest phone-hacking had been widespread.

Speedily designed tests showed that use of THG had been widespread among top athletes.

There had been widespread lobbying from Britain's Gujarati population to end it.

But the head of the council, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, said there had been widespread fraud.

There had been widespread expectation in the music industry that Mr. Bronfman, 56, would leave the company soon.

Predictably, Sali Berisha, the mercurial former president who heads the Democrats, refused to accept defeat, alleging fraud had been widespread.

Maduro won a very narrow victory, and Capriles demanded a full recount, alleging that there had been widespread voting irregularities.

But the news since the polls closed has been so bad that this future cannot be taken for granted.Election observers immediately said there had been widespread fraud.

But government officials denied that there had been widespread fraud and urged people to accept the outcome of the election.

There had been widespread media reports that the virus, in its aerosol form, killed every ferret exposed to it.

There had been widespread speculation that as a commercial broadcaster ITV would be pressured to pay more than the BBC.