Sentence examples for rampant level from inspiring English sources

Election officials also privately admit there is nothing they can do in the short time available to make changes to prevent a repeat of the rampant level of fraud that characterised the first round.

At the time, the supreme court's chief justice, John Roberts, argued that policing of racism in elections should be determined by "current conditions" and that, in his view, discrimination did meet the "pervasive, flagrant, widespread and rampant" level that had justified the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s.

The alleged slaying of as many as 58 "emo" Iraqi citizens who are either gay or believed to be gay has sparked concerns from international human rights organizations, with many fearing Iraq may be returning to the rampant level of hate crimes against homosexuals as seen in 2009.

Jon Summers, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, said the senator had long been concerned over "rampant" levels of crime in polygamous communities, including the abuse of women and children, financial crimes like welfare fraud and tax evasion, kidnapping and extortion.

Nevadans have been hit harder than anyone by the rampant levels of fraud in every aspect of the housing market in recent years, with a stunning 60percentt of Nevada homeowners in underwater mortgages.

This is in turn tied to the promotion of research at the expense of teaching; huge lecture classes (typically taught by teaching assistants); high levels of cheating; rampant grade inflation; and a cynical, if tacit, "nonaggression pact" between students and faculty to stay out of each other's way.

While routine small bribes to traffic cops and the like are not nearly as damaging as the rampant high-level corruption in developing countries, the continuous paying of small bribes helps to create an atmosphere in which the multimillion-dollar payoffs are less repugnant.

There is one promising sign, he adds: an e-government programme designed to reduce people's contact with officials is having an effect on rampant low-level corruption.Opposition parties, led by an ageing and exhausted generation, have shrunk to nothing more than "dissident clubs", says Hikmet Hadjy-Zadeh, a prominent member of one of them.

In campaigning, the rather wooden general and his backers gave voice to the serious gripes that Sri Lankans have with their government: economic hardship, after years of high inflation; rampant top-level corruption; and cronyism in a government that includes 109 ministers and allegedly hundreds of Mr Rajapaksa's neighbours and relatives.

While horizontal gene transfer seems rampant at sequence level, its impact appears quite limited at higher levels of structural organization [ 15, 20, 22].

"Corruption is rampant at high levels, and at low levels," said an FBI agent, before adding: "and all levels in between".