amock

It is usually after such occurrences as excite their bad passions, that they take to opium and are at last wrought up to the madness of the "amock," which ends their days and griefs together.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784

Mull of our readers niufl have heard of the Mo - hawksjand thefe are thepeojile who are fo denominated, from a corruption of tlv, "word amock, which will be explained by the following ftory and obfcrvations.

A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority [microform] : containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages, undertaken by order of his present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres & c. &c. &c. ... the whole comprehending a full account, from the earliest period to the present time ... 1784

So if you want to put a political spin on it then you have to trace everything back until you find which politicians passed the laws that let the financial sector run amock.

CNN Poll: Blame for recession shifting from GOP to Democrats 2009

UP politicians are masters of identity politics run amock -- enormously complex calculations of how to combine various caste and regional groups, religious communities, and occupational groups -- into winning combinations.

Carl Pope: What's Not the Matter With Uttar Pradesh? Carl Pope 2012

Talk about Hypocrasy run amock, this is despicable to say the least ....

Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries 2009

He lets "tea parties" run amock and uneducated and false rumors regarding health care reform run rampant throughout the internet.

Pawlently takes aim at Obama's address to students 2009

All of it: a seamless garment of gone-amock healthcare and education schemes, prevention of pregnancies and safe-legal-rare abortions in their annual millions, Mengelian experimentation with defenseless human beings, redefinition of the nature and purposes of human sexuality, sowing of division within the US Catholic Church and among Evangelicals, enforcement of usurious contracts, cultivation of new neo-colonial killing fields ... and the list goes on.

Are "'Catholic' Democrats" suggesting Glendon is a racist? 2009

The whole thing sounds like a government running amock with no checks and balances.

Domestic surveillance program began soon after 9/11 2009

Prequels have run amock in Hollywood due to a lack of creativity and an overabundance of greed.

Revisiting Star Trek [Part 7 of 7]: The New Trek Reboot 2009

A society run amock, looking for someone to guide them.

McCain health care plan emphasizes personal responsibility 2008