In another sign of spreading trouble, the National Association of Purchasing Management reported today that its its index of business activity outside of the manufacturing sector fell to 40.6 in October from 50.2 in September, a much steeper downturn that economists had anticipated.
Recent protests in Benghazi and Derna over housing shortages were seized upon as evidence of spreading trouble, but local grievances have not coalesced into opposition at the national level, Libyan opposition figures admit.
Because of Ku Klux Klan threatsEarl's UNIA activities were "spreading trouble" the family relocated in 1926 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and shortly thereafter to Lansing, Michigan, where the family was frequently harassed by the Black Legion, a white racist group.
So, it's easiest to just leave the diseased plants out and avoid the possibility of spreading trouble in your garden.
While investigators say they have weeks of work to do before understanding the precise causes and chronology of the electrical collapse, the failures of Midwestern transmission lines and power plants and the warning system meant to limit the spread of trouble are considered pivotal.
An amputation is performed, but the cancer spreads and trouble follows.
In 2010 fear of energy, water and other raw-material shortages will spread these troubles through the rest of the world.John Parker: globalisation correspondent, The Economist.
The risk, of course, is contagion as the intertwining of European banks and fleeing sovereign holders spread the troubles.
"The women told me the attack was motivated by rumours spread by trouble-making thugs that I was a foreign spy, following a national advertising campaign warning of the dangers of foreigners.
She wrote she was told later "the attack was motivated by rumors spread by trouble-making thugs that I was a foreign spy, following a national advertising campaign warning of the dangers of foreigners".
