Sentence examples for widespread official from inspiring English sources

Doing business is complicated by widespread official and corporate corruption.

Mr Karzai won office after a dubious election, and he admits to widespread official corruption.

Annoyed with her spiel, I began to enumerate Panama's deficiencies, the most glaring of which is widespread official corruption.

Fort Conger was revealingly named after a friendly senator who had supported Greely's expedition against widespread official antagonism.

He was arrested in August after issuing a manifesto urging the authorities to relax domestic security and end what he called widespread official corruption.

The widespread official view, held by the British and Irish Prime Ministers, is that the Real I.R.A. does not have the backing of the main group.

Child sex abuse is significantly more widespread than official figures suggest, according to research revealing the troubling scale of "invisible" abuse within families.

Formerly subject to widespread, even official ethnic discrimination, the Sami are now legally recognized as a distinct culture and have been granted some measure of autonomy through the Sami Parliament.

Addiction to heroin and other "hard" drugs is going un detected in the armed forces and the use of "soft" drugs like marijuana is more widespread than official statistics show.

Gun smuggling into the U.S. from Canada is not widespread, the official said, given gun control efforts in Canada and the relatively free flow of guns in the U.S.

Somali officials denied that the visa problem was widespread, and officials for the World Food Program said they had not yet seen the report but would investigate its conclusions once it was presented to the Security Council next Tuesday.