Hungary has witnessed a spate of especially nasty murders.
Money permitting, maybe a spate of joblessness would jolt me into taking more initiative.
But a spate of strikes has hit the country's factories, and Chinese Labour is getting dearer.
At least 100 Iraqis were killed in a spate of attacks in or near Baghdad.
It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians(Virginia Woolf)
This has been a response to a spate of business wins including Zhujiang Beer, Converse and Swire Properties.
This development is the latest in a spate of good news about solar power, a type of renewable energy.
If a spate of new houses could guarantee growth, critics note, Spain and Ireland would be booming.
Since joining from Marseille in 2008, Nasri had struggled to make his mark after suffering a spate of unfortunate injuries.
A consequential peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia was stifled in its embryonic stage by a spate of bloody events.
Mobile Social photo apps: The end of 2010 witnessed a spate of mobile photo apps including Instagram, PicPlz and Path.
America has produced a spate of musical plays that have been phenomenally pupular abroad as well as at home.
In Jhabua, local news media recently reported a spate of child deaths linked to malnutrition in several villages.
In July, the city suffered a spate of five attacks in just four days, one of which also targeted a college killing six people.
Libor fixing and a spate of other recent cases against financial firms have once again raised the question of whether the culture of Wall Street is corrupt.
But a spate of recent cases reveal shocking flaws in our national emergency response system-at a cost measured in lives.
Thee disappearance of an Indonesia AirAsia jetliner with 162 people on board caps a torrid year for the aviation industry involving a spate of high-profile crashes.
She is very well disciplined about her weight, and if she has had a spate of rich meals, she will simply skip one.
But America is frustrated at Pakistan's reluctance to wage all-out war against the militants and has conducted a spate of missile strikes on the border region.
Scientists believe that during the Cretaceous period, a spate of volcanic activity caused plant life to bloom on the surface of the oceans.
The Washington Post, too, experimented with a blog open to outsiders, and also shut it down after a spate of vandalism.
The killing happened as tensions flare over Israel's planned demolition of Arab homes in East Jerusalem and a spate of new violence in Gaza.
In fact, it seems there's recently been a spate of articles, project management dashboards, and the like that apply health and wellness imagery to software development activities.
The tainted wheat gluten from the companies ended up in pet food in the United States, and was blamed for a spate of dog and cat deaths.
But with 840 firm orders even after a spate of cancellations, the 787 is still the fastest-selling new airliner in history.
Thanks mainly to a wave of mergers, but also to a spate of bank failures in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of banks in America has fallen by half in the past 20 years.
While a spate of non-scores has dropped Al-Attiyah out of title contention, the Qatari remains a threat in his Barwa World Rally Team Fiesta on an event he has shone on in the past.
The bill came following a spate of recent corporate fraudulent accounting scandals. The stock markets had experienced a big loss of over 7 trillion US dollars since March 2000.
Some of southern China's toy makers, which turn out most of the world's playthings, are struggling this holiday season after a spate of massive safety-related recalls in the U.S..
In the wake of a spate of suicides at Foxconn factories last summer, workers were asked to sign a statement promising not to kill themselves and pledging to "treasure their lives".
China said authorities have arrested more than 2,000 people and shut 5,000 businesses in a four-month campaign against recurring food safety problems, following a spate of recent contamination woes.
Climate change may have cost the world over$60 billion in2003, triggering a spate of natural disasters from a deadly heat wave in Europe to massive flooding in China.
