Sentence examples for widespread known from inspiring English sources

On Capitol Hill, American officials apologise and squirm in the face of evidence that the maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was widespread, known about long before it found its way into the public domain, and much more callous as new pictures and videos are said to show than has been depicted in the ugly enough photographs published already.

The practice was widespread, well known -- and comprehensively denied.

The visit outraged Palestinians and sparked widespread violence known as the second intifāḍah (Arabic: "shaking off").

This goes way beyond the hacking scandal which took years to be uncovered, because even though it was widespread and known to be illegal, it was tolerated.

Also, he reasoned, they might file a petition for review in a court they thought would be friendly to their cause a covert but widespread practice known in the legal profession as "forum shopping".

Pieck, Grotewohl and Ulbricht did their best to exploit this widespread apathy (known in German as Ohne-mich-Haltung, 'count-me-out attitude') by playing the pacifist card.

It conceals the losses using an unlawful but widespread practice known as a Tobashi scheme, or Tobashi.

The species is widespread, being known in its natural habitat from all five continents, but is not found in abundance.

The Ndebele fought their way northwards into the Transvaal, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake and beginning an era of widespread devastation known as the Mfecane.

The backlog problem has been exacerbated by a widespread practice known as robo-signing, where mortgage lenders approve paperwork without checking it thoroughly or, in some cases, without reading it at all.

Geophagy or the consumption of soil and clay by animals is geographically widespread and known from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate taxa including humans (summarized in [1]).