Sentence examples for rampant during from inspiring English sources

AIDS was silently becoming rampant during this period, and the characters in your book aren't immune.

Corruption was rampant during Ahmadinejad's two terms, draining oil revenues in bad loans and unlivable public-housing projects.

Con: I am also told that STDs are rampant during Sundance and that the local clinics get overwhelmed.

But I think it's even more rampant during the Obama administration, because I think the national debt has increased by $3 trillion just in the last 18 months.

The penchant for rationalization and revisionism — displayed daily in divorce courts and press offices of dictators — ran rampant during the gaper's block that was his lengthy fall.

Mr. Kibaki won a landslide in December elections with promises to end graft that became rampant during President Daniel arap Moi's 24 years in power.

The rampant speculation during the selection process encompassed many of the best-known names in the party, including Mr. Kerry and Mr. Gore, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and former Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.

Most of the footage used to construct the fictional report was recorded during the second trial of Mr. Khodorkovsky, who was arrested on charges of fraud in 2003, after he appeared to challenge Mr. Putin by raising the issue of rampant corruption during a live television broadcast and going back on a promise to stay out of politics.

As our colleagues Michael Schwirtz and David Herszenhorn reported in December, a video posted online by volunteer monitors that appeared to show rampant fraud during parliamentary elections that month helped to prompt street protests by Russians disgruntled after 12 years of living under Mr. Putin's rule.

In 1797, the great bronze horses of San Marco, which had themselves been pillaged from Constantinople by the rampant Venetians during the Fourth Crusade, were dragged back to Paris (along with a great deal more cultural loot) to adorn the newly refurbished capital.

BEIJING, Oct. 15 — President Hu Jintao promised to address social fissures, a degraded environment and rampant corruption during his second term as China's top leader, but he all but ruled out more than cosmetic political reform in his opening address on Monday at the 17th National Congress of the governing Communist Party.