Sentence examples for midst of widespread from inspiring English sources

She began attracting followers who believed that she represented an outpost of true faith in the midst of widespread corruption in the church.

When Franco declared civil war in the midst of widespread social agitation in 1936, his crusade was against "separatists" as well as "reds".

It is one of the few segments of the high-technology market that is thriving in the midst of widespread dot-com gloom.

Late last month, the Israeli journalist and musician Noy Alooshe posted a video on YouTube in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extolls Israel's stability in the midst of widespread demonstrations across the Middle East, protests that "shake" so many countries.

"It would have been pretty rough if this thing had gone public and we'd had to repair in the midst of widespread attacks," he says.

So, at first, it strikes me as odd that we're apparently in the midst of widespread board game revivalism.

But they are now the top two leaders in a worldwide industry that saw investment jump 32 percent in 2010, even in the midst of a widespread economic crisis.

Nearly a century ago, the House of Morgan and its founder, J. Pierpont Morgan, preserved the American financial system in the midst of a widespread panic.

It comes in the midst of a widespread revolt in the Arab world, the very wellspring of Al Qaeda, which the terrorist movement had not masterminded and, thus far, has seemed incapable of exploiting, much less leading.

Africa is in the midst of a widespread elephant slaughter, and conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

In the midst of a widespread decline in bees, particularly in the United States, a few bumblebees are finding a way to cope: shorter tongues.