To protect themselves from rampant crime and racketeering, the oligarchs tried to privatise parts of the KGB.
I always knew they were a nest of careerists, but recent experience shows that the careerist is now being replaced by worse: the ideologue rampant.
It's enough to make a person go bonkers with all these thoughts running rampant. In addition, being single means that you won't have to worry about going through a heart-wrenching breakup.
In some parts of Brazil, violent crime is still rampant.
In light of this rampant growth, the obvious question is: Why the unyielding surge in international defense expenditures?
More shoppers are joining the campaign, meaning more plastic bags that used to be in rampant use are now lying unused at the checkout.
Since neither neutrality nor a stand could be maintained, their "neutral stand" eventually became a mere attempt to keep a foothold in nd this foothold the Japanese were allowed to run rampant.
The England football team exemplified this collective delusion, and the country's rampant materialism.
Unlike an exquisite painting or a strand of natural pearls, both of which tend to survive dinner parties intact, top wines are finite and ersatz bottles are rampant.
That totalitarianism runs rampant is this kind of new savagery.
While greening farms worldwide, much nitrogen washes into lakes, rivers, and the sea, causing rampant algae growth.
Vigilante groups and gang crime are rampant in other parts of the world.
To his harshest critics, he is squandering the nation's oil wealth, lavishing it on programs to boost his popularity and on Allies abroad while crime and inflation remain rampant and unattended.
This is a scary trend - already rampant in the US - and only education and early intervention about portion control and smart food choices is the solution.
Demand for scans is rampant.
Thousands of people protested in Basra over the weekend demanding police do more to stop rampant crime and restore order.
That, plus China's rampant piracy, is why knowledge-based industries such as software love India but shun the Middle Kingdom.
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