Sentence examples for spread of illegal from inspiring English sources

If that bill passes in the Senate, where a majority backs it, the question of who's to blame for the spread of illegal guns may find another answer.

The "explosion" in opium production which started in 2005 corresponded with the spread of illegal payments to officials and parts of the economy being swamped by "black money", said the report.

TEHRAN — Iran's vice president delivered a baldly anti-Semitic speech on Tuesday at an international antidrug conference here, saying that the Talmud, a central text of Judaism, was responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world.

That's a shame, but it's inevitable, given the spread of illegal weapons, mass immigration and the break-up of communities (caused by positive developments such as wealth, freedom, prosperity and mobility).

The photographs were shot in late April and early May, but the government released them now because of growing concerns that disease and the spread of illegal logging threaten to destroy the tribe's way of life.

The animal groups are going to make a lot of noise about needing Helmsley's fortune to tackle problems such as the 2m dogs being "needlessly euthanised" each year, the rapid spread of illegal dog-fighting, and the potential health risk to humans if animal welfare is not properly funded.

Online traders told the Guardian that ignorance of the law led them to create listings that had spread hundreds of illegal specimens across the country.

With record youth unemployment, the spread of this illegal practise is a big and emotive issue for young people.

"The biggest hindrance for peace talks and for a political solution is the spreading of the illegal settlements," Liv Tørres, the general secretary for Norwegian People's Aid, a humanitarian organization that lobbied for the Norwegian boycott, told me.

The matter remains under investigation, but the timing of the news – on the eve of an Ashes decider, a rare blue-riband event on cricket's congested calendar – is a blow for a sport desperate to rid itself of the match-fixing stigma yet increasingly concerned that the spread of Twenty20 has provided illegal bookmakers with fresh opportunities to snare players.

In the Amazon, some 95 per cent of forest destruction has occurred within 5km of a road, and for every 1km of legal road, there were another 3km of illegal roads spreading off it, he said.