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Both Crouch and Schweitzer say they believe the biggest obstacle to getting young doctors into scarcely populated areas is a lack of information and the pervasion of negative stereotypes about rural medicine and its challenges.

From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2018

The subsequent pervasion of moral relativism created an atmosphere that made people uncomfortable passing judgement on crooks, he says.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2012

Not, we may be sure, because of exposure to the elements, or even the tragic loneliness that was theirs before the pervasion of the automobile.

From The Living Present by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

In most and in all great instances there is apprehension, dim and faint, or more distinct, of pervasion of a spirit throughout that which we conceive Beautiful.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

The non-released soul has its intellectual power contracted by the influence of Karman, and hence is incapable of that expansive pervasion without which it cannot identify itself with other bodies.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George