Sentence examples for spread contagion from inspiring English sources

Their inconsistency, even incoherence, over getting creditors to pay has done much to spread contagion.

To adopt Henry Kissinger's version, a region that falls out of control can become a "virus" that will "spread contagion", inducing others to follow the same path.

The E.C.B. and some countries worry that such a move would be classified as a selective default and thus spread contagion throughout the euro zone.

The danger is that some of the women the medical charity wants to help could have the virus and spread contagion.

Echoing Alan Greenspan, his guru and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he added: "The very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.

And we need to understand what went wrong in this crisis, that the very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.

The Spreading Contagion But contagion was already spreading.

During the pandemic's peak in Europe, from 1348 to 1351, more than 200 Jewish communities were wiped out, their inhabitants accused of spreading contagion or poisoning wells.

The best public-relations advice in the world will not help contain what is, for Murdoch, a spreading contagion that is no longer confined to London.

President Bush plans to announce the measures on Tuesday morning after a harrowing week in which confidence vanished in financial markets as the crisis spread worldwide and government leaders engaged in a desperate search for remedies to the spreading contagion.

Weimar Germany was a sexually sophisticated era and Murnau, who was gay, subtly probes the erotic tensions of the characters and the complacent bourgeois community in which Orlok spreads contagion.