Sentence examples for high levels of official from inspiring English sources

Building a new church or even repairing an old one required absurdly high levels of official approval (up to the president).

He was returned to power during a violence-wracked ballot in 2000, with his second mandate marked by high levels of official corruption and political violence before he too was overthrown by an armed insurrection after months of large-scale street protests against his rule.

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 may have officially ended in mid-2009 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, but a deep recession remains in the nation's labor markets with very high levels of official unemployment, underemployment, and hidden unemployment.

The cases, while not directly tied to rights abuses, underscored the high level of official malfeasance that has helped fuel Colombia's conflict.

They spoke of the 210 million people currently out of work worldwide -- the highest level of official unemployment in history.

Air monitoring has not found any alarmingly high levels of toxic chemicals, officials said.

More than 150,000 children's necklaces have been recalled because they contain high levels of lead, federal officials said.

It could, for example, produce withdrawal symptoms in patients receiving high levels of oxycodone, the officials said.

A company has recalled about six million children's necklaces and zipper tags because they contain high levels of lead, federal officials said.

Months later, when independent studies confirmed high levels of lead, state officials reacted initially by denying the results.

The search was hampered by high levels of methane, which caused officials to suspend rescue operations for much of Sunday.