** Widespread student pro-democracy protests are broken up in Burma.

Widespread protests against the Taliban regime broke out in Bhopal, India.

Widespread protests erupted in January 2008, with a strong government response.

Widespread publicity surrounding the case turned it into a cause célèbre among African Americans and white Americans ; it and other race-related Navy protests of 1944 – 1945 led the Navy to change its practices and initiate the desegregation of its forces beginning in February 1946.

Widespread public opposition in every major European country ( even those such as Britain, Italy, and Spain, whose governments supported the invasion ) prompted the February 15, 2003 anti-war protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Madrid and other cities.

Widespread abuse of Usenet with spam and pornography has led to many of these FidoNet gateways to cease operation completely.

Widespread refusal led to legislation against the clergy, " forcing them into exile, deporting them forcibly, or executing them as traitors.

Widespread public outcry in the USA, partly communicated to Congress by postage-paid postcards supplied in the packaging of sweetened soft drinks, led to the retention of saccharin despite its violation of the Delaney clause.

Widespread access to the Internet has led to a dramatic increase in white supremacist websites .< ref name =" Adversity "> Adams, Josh, and Vincent J. Roscigno " White Supremacists, Oppositional Culture and the World Wide Web.

* Widespread use of petroleum in industry — both as a chemical precursor to plastics and as a fuel for the automobile and airplane — led to the vital geopolitical importance of petroleum resources.

Widespread poverty, disruption to an agricultural economy too dependent on cotton, and the falling price of cotton, led within decades to the routine indebtedness of the majority of the freedmen, and poverty by many planters.

Widespread admiration of Auferstehung led to three 1788 performances in Vienna sponsored by the Baron Gottfried van Swieten and conducted by Mozart.

Widespread pressure from the populace and an international outcry eventually led to his release after eighteen months in solitary confinement, and he was released on March 20, 1975.

: Widespread use of slash and burn agriculture has led to deforestation and soil erosion

Widespread use of such sensors in turbomachinery has led to development of industry standards that prescribe their use and application.

Widespread hunger led to mass starvation ; the government distributed money and foodstuffs for poor people in Moscow, but that only led to refugees ' flocking to the capital and increasing the economic disorganization.

Widespread killstealing of entire groups by single players led Sony to implement the currently used method, which considers the combined damage output of the entire party.

Widespread interest in LLVM has led to a number of efforts to develop entirely new front ends for a variety of languages.

Widespread inappropriate use of the procedure later led to it falling from use but was reintroduced by Hermann Schwartze in the nineteenth century.

Widespread soil erosion also led to rapid silting of Aroona Dam.

Widespread online and offline support, from activist and author Cory Doctorow to over 30, 000 Facebook users, led to the tabling of the copyright legislation by Industry Minister Jim Prentice until 2008.

Widespread discontent with these measures led the community to rally behind the archdeacon, Thoma, in swearing to resist the Padroado.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

Widespread decrease in elm pollen across Europe between 8400 – 8300 BC and 7200 – 7000 BC, starting in southern Europe and gradually moving north to Great Britain, may represent land clearing by fire at the onset of Neolithic agriculture.

Widespread use of BRI is further stymied by some small North American CLECs such as CenturyTel having given up on it and not providing Internet access using it.

Widespread use of the term politically correct and its derivatives began when it was adopted as a pejorative term by the political right in the 1990s, in the context of the Culture Wars.

Widespread discontent re-emerged, and in 1902 a movement against forced labour for a cotton scheme rejected by the local population started along the Rufiji River.

Widespread evasion of the maritime and inland trade restrictions by American merchants, as well as loopholes in the legislation, greatly reduced the impact of the embargo on the intended targets in Europe.

Widespread trading was hampered by this problem, as cautious foreign merchants offered poor rates on local electrum coin.

Widespread attitudes of revulsion and fear toward insects are often exploited by Horror and Science Fiction films through insect / insect-like monsters ( Them!

* June 2001 Santa Fe, two concerts by the band Widespread Panic

Widespread appointment of life peers was enabled by the Life Peerages Act 1958.

Widespread use of the wire recording device occurred within the decades spanning from 1940 until 1960, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology ( later Illinois Institute of Technology ).

The Talking Heads song can be found on their 1986 album ( and soundtrack to the David Byrne film of the same name ), True Stories ; the Talking Heads song has been covered regularly by Widespread Panic, whose performance of the song can be heard on their live album, Light Fuse, Get Away.

Widespread corruption by government officials and politicians added to the country's list of problems.

Widespread agreement exists, however, that an exceptionally tall individual was reliably measured at by theodolite in 1880 by a surveyor, George Cornthwaite, at Thorpdale, Victoria ( the tree is known both as the Cornthwaite or Thorpdale Tree ).

Widespread acceptance was additionally hampered by the fact that the 286 only allowed memory access in 16 bit segments via each of four segment registers, meaning only 4 * 2 < sup > 16 </ sup > bytes, equivalent to 256 kilobytes, could be accessed at a time.

Widespread fraud was practised and illegal trading took place by figures who travelled under the unauthorised protection of the British flag, knowing that local customs officials would therefore be cowed into not interfering with them.

Widespread lack of clarity in chain of title results from a 1995 decision by many lenders to rely on a third entity -- often, a specific company, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems ( MERS )-- to hold title nominally, in an effort to enable the buying and selling of mortgage liabilities without registration of changes of ownership with local governments.

Widespread travel by naturalists in the early-to-mid-19th century resulted in a wealth of new information about the diversity and distribution of living organisms.

Widespread adoption of catalytic converters didn't occur until more stringent emission control regulations forced the removal of anti-knock agent tetraethyl lead from most gasoline, because lead was a ' catalyst poison ' and would inactivate the converter by forming a coating on the catalyst's surface, effectively disabling it.

Widespread, it is considered a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN.