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But such sentiment was not nearly widespread enough to bring Mr Gingrich victory: in the end he mustered just 32% of the vote.The result suggests that Mr Romney's appeal is broader than his poor showing in South Carolina had implied.

The proposal failed despite nearly widespread agreement among federal policymakers, financial regulators and financiers that Americans' student debt burdens risk choking U.S. economic growth as student loan payments take ever bigger chunks of workers' paychecks.

Economic growth wasn't quite as strong or nearly as widespread, and the deficit returned.

Wild mushroom hunting is not nearly as widespread in the United States as it is in many other countries.

Some Islamic fundamentalists claim FGM is a religious duty, but it is not nearly as widespread in most other majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East.

Economic distress signals are not nearly as widespread as they were in the early 1990s, and economists are still debating whether there will even be a recession this time.

"Meta" is a liminal term these days; it's creeping more and more into everyday conversations, even if it's not nearly as widespread as, say, "irony".

Companies may decide it is worth trying to get away with it.' Commission members fear underpayment could become nearly as widespread as it was under the old wages councils, which were weakly enforced.

Public entrepreneurship, though not nearly as widespread as its private complement, or perhaps as fashionable as its "social" counterpart (focussed on non-profits and their ecosystem), has been around for a while and so have those who practiced it.

Even the illegal commercial hunting of great apes and other animals for food – known as the bushmeat trade – would not be nearly as widespread if not for the logging and mining roads that are cut through forests, allowing access to previously remote habitat of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.

And he's openly skeptical that noncompliance is nearly as widespread among the self-employed as the IRS figures.