Sentence examples for insidious spread from inspiring English sources

The sect's insidious spread has created an atmosphere of mutual surveillance, suspicion and paranoia.

The insidious spread of junk and convenience foods play a very major role, as does a lack of exercise.

A country already shaken by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is in a state of high alert these days because of the insidious spread of anthrax.

Hargey wrote: "Everyone in Britain, including Muslims, should oppose the insidious spread of this vile piece of clothing, which imprisons women, threatens social harmony, fuels distrust, has grave health implications and is a potent security risk".

And while some photographers have hijacked advances in technology for their own kind of snooping (such as Alair Gomes, training telephoto lenses on muscled young men on the beach, or Merry Alpern taking a videocam into a women's dressing room), others have used old-fashioned landscape shots to depict the insidious spread of surveillance cameras in our suburbs and streets.

And in 2003 alone, in addition to the sars epidemic, monkeypox broke out for the first time in the Western Hemisphere (monkeypox causes symptoms that are similar to those of smallpox, but — at least for now — it is not nearly as contagious); West Nile disease continued its insidious spread across North America; and mad-cow disease appeared for the first time in the United States.

He added: "With [police] forces working in close collaboration with the NCA, we can make a difference in tackling this insidious spreading of serious crime".

According to Lincoln Brower, a biologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, the "insidious disease" spreads when infected butterflies scatter spores on milkweed plants, which are then ingested by the next generation of caterpillars.

The way in which terrorism undermines democracy is indirect and insidious by the spread of fear and grotesque provocation of democratic institutions.

Then they become les fleurs du mal, insidious species that spread their pods and twining tentacles into every corner of the state and beyond.

Estrin's instrument was the French horn, and his particular disability is known as embouchure dystonia, which involves various combinations of the lips, the tongue, and the jaw, and has an insidious tendency to spread to other oral activities, including speaking and eating.