Do they think that they will run amok if they are given this power?
Youngsters are running amok, knowing perfectly well that they are largely immune from being caught.
Frankenstein built a complex monster, which, in the end, ran amok, and the only way to destroy it was by fire.
It seems to me that this is yet more bureaucracy run amok.
We have to be careful of psychiatrists now and then perhaps running amok amongst us.
They have been used, for example, to disarm persons running amok, to quell prison disturbances, to apprehend armed criminals and to disperse rioters.
Nobody is going to run amok in this matter.
We have recently seen a "running amok", or the early stages of "running amok", in the hire-purchase business.
