Sentence examples for there were pervasive from inspiring English sources

He told us he was innocent, and he said he was terrified of going to the U.S. base, because there were pervasive rumors that prisoners were tortured there.

A unit of the Justice Department that oversees bankruptcy court cases, the U.S. Trustees Program, said in its 2010 annual report that there were "pervasive and longstanding problems regarding mortgage loan servicing," which "are not merely 'technical' but cause real harm to homeowners in bankruptcy".

There were pervasive inequality issues in contraception use by education, residence, and wealth quintile among sexually active adolescents; however, in Ethiopia, the data point to a significant and systematic reduction of inequalities, warranting further studies.

"There are pervasive feelings of animosity and distrust A.N.S.F.

With affordable data rates and brand-new dual-SIM smartphones, there is pervasive smartphone usage.

There are pervasive and persistent disparities in the health of Nonhispanic White Americans and most racial ethnic/minorities; the greatest of these are between Black and White Americans.

There are pervasive rumors that Eric Clapton, members of the Grateful Dead and B. B. King will turn up onstage over the run.

Putting the two premises together, we get the following argument for the existence of narrow content: "(1) There is pervasive intentional content that constitutively depends on phenomenology alone.

So, (3) There is pervasive intentional content that constitutively depends only on narrow factors" (Horgan and Tienson 2002, p. 527; cf. Horgan, Tienson and Graham 2004, p. 300).

She told the Post that there was "pervasive verbal sexual harassment at NBC". .

As a result, there is pervasive corruption and malpractices at all levels of government.