And who but Peter Harris, having noted it, would actually call it "rampancy"?. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books] Reference
Always have to straighten out those jesusists. rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [Witt in the Seattle Times - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Is anyone actually prepared to rebut what Lennox and Berlinski said? rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design around the world - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
There is, after all, Lee Spetner – the guy who made the original argument that Archaeopteryx was a fake, and now wastes his time peddling ID drivel. rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewish voice of reason - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
After a painful final meeting with Mizzy at a local Starbucks, Peter heads back to the gallery: "He's not so far gone as to ignore the rampancy of the streets through which he walks.". From Wordnik.com. [Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books] Reference
Their predictions are coming to pass not only with respect to the environment but with regard to the rampancy of the self-destructive greed and the fraud that feeds it in the economic realm. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians” : Law is Cool] Reference
Those who are now telling us, that all danger from revolutionary principles is now passed by, are yet endeavouring to call up again the very arguments which they used at the commencement of the war, in the youth and rampancy of Jacobinism; and repeat the same language, with which they then attempted to lull the nation into security, combined with the same acts of popular irritation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
I was laughing from start to finish. rampancy Said. From Wordnik.com. [Writing English] Reference
Revenue and rampancy are never good enough reasons to permit vice. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Only one problem, it's extremely addictive! rampancy (10 / 31 / 2007 - version 1.1.0). From Wordnik.com. [Mac Game Files] Reference
Meanwhile, lack of international coordination among naval powers patrolling the area has added to the pirates 'rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
He was settling down to what he had made himself; no virtue could claim a share in the diminished rampancy of his vices. From Wordnik.com. [There & Back] Reference
Doug Wilson has a really good response to this article over at his blog, dougwils.com. on 16 Jun 2009 at 1: 23 pm rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [internetmonk.com] Reference
In the first place, this was the time of the year when the flies and manifold sort of vermin, flying, crawling, hopping, hungry, and ever biting, were in the full rampancy of their young vigor. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman] Reference
You are wonderfully intolerant, you in England, of equine consulships, you who bear with quite sufficient equanimity a great rampancy of beasts all over the world -- Mr. Forster not blowing the trumpet of war, and Mr.. Alfred Tennyson not loading the rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
In allowing the public prosecutor's appeal, Sebli ruled that the court concurred with the deputy public prosecutor that the sentence of one-and-a-half years 'imprisonment imposed by the Sessions Court for the offence committed by Mohd Arwin does not reflect the gravity and rampancy of the offence. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Express Newspaper Online] Reference
And as they are come to this height and rampancy of vice, in a great measure, from the countenance of their betters and superiors; so they have took some steps higher in the same from this, That the follies and extravagances of the young too frequently carry with them the suffrage and approbation of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
In full rampancy of their vigor, in the seventeenth century these two systems began that generation of national energy, which in the eighteenth century was consolidated and which in the nineteenth century, though unknown and unsuspected by Europeans or Americans, was all ready for phenomenal manifestation and tremendous eruption, even while Perry's fleet was bearing the olive branch to Japan. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
Oh, and LA Wilson is correct, OS is a great place to study marine biology. rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Episcopalians do something impressive - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Before the plagues, before the rampancy, before the daunting complexities of summer. From Wordnik.com. [Lifescapes] Reference
The substance was as usual insubstantial, and the format was as fawning as you’d imagine. rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Steve in Hawai'i - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
‘And rampant animals too’ repeated Mr Pecksniff with so much determination, that he may be said to have exhibited, at the moment a sort of moral rampancy himself;’ — and Virtue is the drag. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
You are wonderfully intolerant, you in England, of equine consulships, you who bear with quite sufficient equanimity a great rampancy of beasts all over the world ” Mr. Forster not blowing the trumpet of war, and Mr.. Alfred Tennyson not loading the rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
We are the indigenous people of the land, and we receive our legitimacy from our belonging to this land, not from having Israeli citizenship,” he said, describing the poll as “additional evidence underscoring the growing rampancy of racism and fascism in Israel as a result of the ongoing waves of hate against everything and anything Arab.”. From Wordnik.com. [khaled amayreh : shishim] Reference
From the prevailing rampancy of vice, a certain air of over-sternness and rigidity has wrought itself into her character, displacing somewhat of its proper sweetness and amiability: but, in the right view of things, this loss is well made up in that she is the more an object of reverence; albeit I have to confess that she would touch me rather more potently, if she had a little more of loveliness and a little less of awfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
Just… wow. rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [The dog ate my homework - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"I do not want to believe it but I have heard too many reports from various sources of the rampancy. From Wordnik.com. [My Sinchew -] Reference
"Now the question is: What about the perils of dual nationality and can the government be held accountable for the rampancy of this phenomenon?. From Wordnik.com. [Arab Times Kuwait English Daily] Reference
This (the rampancy of drunk driving cases) is one of the main reasons for us introducing Blackberry for all 700-odd police officers to check violations in the nights, "said additional commissioner of police (traffic) Praveen Sood. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
CHEATING i dont think was rampant …. .yaar u tell me … almost evry one belongs 2 retest camp …. on pg polls 3000 want a retest … this speaks much about rampancy of cheating … (i know pg represents only few aspirants … but it has a good enough sample size … otherwise all PG cutoff polls would have miserably failed …) bro even i didnt cheat. .and i want a good b-skool … all i wanna say is im not 4 this retest … .im not stopping u frm protesting … if u succeed … i'll take cat again in jan/feb …. From Wordnik.com. [PaGaLGuY.com - India's biggest CAT 2009, MBA website] Reference
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