Sentence examples for lawlessness spread from inspiring English sources

Armed rebellion gripped the south, while lawlessness spread to northern towns, including the capital, Tirana.

When the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked riots this year, many decided to buy another gun, in case the lawlessness spread.

CAIRO - Protesters and government supporters fought in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while more lawlessness spread around the city.

The lawlessness soon spread to other cities.

"It's why past governments have not stopped lawlessness from spreading".

But officials in Islamabad say lawlessness is spreading, ethnic Pashtuns resent the American presence and support for the Taliban's strict law-and-order governance is growing.

North African states need to help their southern neighbors, and vice versa, to prevent lawlessness from spreading north or southeast across the Sahel into Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

The Taliban, with their roots among the Pashtun, were at first a popular antidote to the endless civil fighting among rival groups, and to the corruption and lawlessness that had spread through the land.

The problems of the Central African Republic are daunting but they are not on the same scale as its giant Congolese neighbour and this should provide us with the impetus to solve them now, to ensure that the cancer of lawlessness does not spread across another border.

Rampant poverty, corruption among local officials, a Taliban resurgence and spreading lawlessness have turned the province into a narcotics juggernaut.

And throughout the past year of revolution in Syria – a year characterized by surging protests, increasingly chaotic and horrific violence, spreading lawlessness, and deepening economic deprivation – she has exuded the relentless cheer so common to Assad's defenders.