At TED, brilliance is rampant.

The selling of girls is rampant across the planet.

This kind of indirect speech is rampant in language.

I wonder how rampant baby snatching is out of hospitals.

Rampant insecurity seems to be the order of the day.

In Indonesia, the rampant smuggling of illegal timber caused massive ecological destruction.

Massive fraud is rampant in the gold and tin sector for various reasons.

Rampant sexual and gender based violence remain a reality in a number of contexts.

Several witnesses used the words ethnic cleansing and rampant expulsions of Palestinians to describe the situation.

Talk of countries exiting, starting with Greece (the Grexit ), is now rampant. And only hard core idealists dismiss altogether the mounting risk of the eurozone s total disintegration.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

The dangers of a rampant drug trade in Afghanistan are not limited to the likely financing of the Taliban.

If you actually didn't realize that plants have sex, they have rampant, promiscuous and really quite interesting and curious sex. Really.

At the same time, economic reforms faltered, and poor management was rampant, contributing to the continued deterioration of the people's living conditions.

So probably it doesn't matter 50 years from now streptococcus and stuff like that will be rampant because we won't be here. But if we are we're going to need something to do with the bacteria.

The most urgent challenge facing the new government is rampant lawlessness and anarchy throughout Palestinian society. Murder, kidnapping, and extortion have reached record heights.

Every day, all of us here, we're building gods that have gone rampant, and it's time we started knocking them down and forgetting their names.

CAMBRIDGE With the approach of the US Congressional elections, questions about the health of America s political institutions and the future of its global leadership have become rampant, with some citing partisan gridlock as evidence of America s decline. But is the situation really that bad?

Pakistan is badly fractured, with domestic terrorism running rampant. Its military lacks the capacity to intervene in Saudi Arabia s defense while maintaining not only domestic security, but also readiness for war against India (an obsession of Pakistani generals).

UNOCI civilian police will continue its liaison with and advise the National Police and the Gendarmerie in support of security arrangements in Abidjan, in particular the authorities' efforts to address illegal activities, including rampant racketeering in the city.

In many areas, rampant unemployment dulls their ambition and undermines morale, and we know that civil conflict can have a particularly devastating effect on the young.

Given this, one might ask how China managed to achieve such impressive growth over the last 20 years, despite rampant corruption. The answer probably lies in its selectocracy.

Education is the only way out of the ghetto for many Roma. But in societies like Bulgaria, where racism is rampant, Roma have to fight for equal schooling.

The world should beware. Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.

The critics point to the 500 billion dollars spent in Africa since 1970 and say, and what do we have but environmental degradation and incredible levels of poverty, rampant corruption?

The time is long past when corrupt leaders plundered public funds and Government coffers and thousands of young people were unable to educate themselves and fell victim to rampant unemployment.

Though Rouhani has made little headway combating rampant inflation, small business and the entrepreneurial middle class seem to be thriving. In early June, I found a recently opened complex of expensive restaurants opposite the new luxury Grand Hotel in Shiraz packed with affluent customers.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule. But it is precisely the absence of effective checks on the exercise of power that encourages and sustains rampant corruption in the first place.

As demand for land and land prices increased, corruption became rampant, with some politicians, industrialists, and bureaucrats using the lack of transparency in land ownership and zoning to misappropriate assets. India s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.

With very few onboard observers, incomplete Vessel Monitoring Systems and limited oversight by flag governments, these nations have no way to verify reported catches or tackle rampant IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing which is estimated to be 5 15 percent of the reported catch.

However, there is considerable evidence that strongly indicates rampant speculation in today s oil markets. One key sign is the documented change in the character of oil trading, with speculators (i.e., financial institutions and hedge funds) now accounting for 70 of trades, up from 37 seven years ago.

The holiday season that is now upon us is a time for festivity, and usually of overeating. But the rampant consumption of sugar that marks this time of year is nothing to celebrate.

If these problems are not seriously addressed it will be almost impossible to eradicate the striking inequalities in development between States and the root causes of rampant poverty in most of our countries.

There are significant political risks related to the overlapping political and business interests of the region s entrenched ruling elites, presenting headaches for investors concerned about their reputations. Corruption is rampant, and most companies are often forced to work with government picked partners, over whom control is severely limited.

In the Islamic Republic, those interested in opening up to the West are typically those with little authority. Ahmadinejad and his faction face a two edged problem Khamenei has boxed them in politically, while rampant economic corruption and failed efforts at reform have disillusioned many of the president s supporters.

Then there is Mexico, which will hold only its fourth democratic election in its history in a context of rampant organized crime, appalling violence, and rising skepticism about President Felipe Calderón s war on drugs. With three contending parties, a terrible electoral law, no run off, and condiderable frustration with 12 years of center right, often ineffective governments, the outcome is highly uncertain.

The Chinese option economic rights and prosperity in exchange for public quiescence is not feasible, owing to these regimes ineptness and rampant corruption. As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.

In 2003, in the face of rampant smuggling and copying of pornographic optical disks, the Press and Publication Administration and the National Anti Pornography, Anti Piracy Working Group launched a nationwide campaign in cooperation with customs and public security authorities to clamp down on the smuggling, production and sale of pornographic material.

Competition will only intensify going forward. In a market of rampant homogenization, how to achieve success, and attain a reputation as a shopping mecca in the hearts of future shoppers deserve serious consideration among all real estate developers.

Even though it's Earth like, and even though early in its history it may very well have harbored Earth like life, it soon succumbed to runaway greenhouse that's an 800 degrees Fahrenheit surface because of rampant carbon dioxide.

All of these developments are now visible in the eurozone, particularly in its peripheral countries. Risk premiums started rising above benign levels in 2009, and then more strongly in 2011 2012, while capital flight became rampant in 2011.

Otherwise, bank runs and debt panics will be rampant. Obstfeld had in mind a bailout mechanism for banks, but it is now abundantly clear that one also needs a lender of last resort and a bankruptcy mechanism for states and municipalities.

One agency where large scale graft and corruption was traditionally rampant was the Department of Public Works and Highways. By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.

Fear of radiation, it seems, poses a far more potent health threat than does radiation itself. Symptoms of stress are rampant, and many residents of affected areas firmly believe themselves to be condemned by radiation to ill health and early death.

BERKELEY Complaints about the inflationary effects of American monetary policy are rampant, despite there being barely a hint of inflation in the United States. Rapidly growing catch up economies are paddling furiously to avoid being dragged down by a torrent of capital inflows.