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Officers had hastily devised a plan to subdue Mr. Boyd before dark, but nothing appeared to go as expected.

Meanwhile, the home-affairs department hastily devised a competition to showcase the merits of "outstanding migrants"; and on June 7th Johannesburg will host an AU summit, where much talk of transcontinental solidarity will doubtless be heard.But rhetoric and reality are a long way apart.

It dropped the matter, and Truman's hastily devised legal claim became a historical precedent.

Some corporate governance experts say hastily devised compensation curbs in the bailout package would be a mistake and perhaps open the door to unintended consequences.

But how was that huge sum to be raised with the agreement of the politicians who wanted to keep control of their hastily devised rescue?

Then, how was that huge sum to be raised with the agreement of the politicians who wanted to keep control of their hastily devised rescue?

French Socialist ministers turn out to be keen property investors; almost none holds shares.Mr Hollande hastily devised the new rules after his former budget minister, Jérôme Cahuzac, had confessed to lying about a secret foreign bank account.

Congress ignored Chief Justice William Rehnquist when he urged it to resist tagging hastily devised revisions of the federal sentencing guidelines onto the recently approved Amber Alert bill.

The higher offer — the initial price was $236 million — comes after a tumultuous week on Wall Street and in Washington because of the near collapse of Bear and the hastily devised deal to save it.

The renegotiation, which would set a sale price of more than $1 billion, comes after a tumultuous week on Wall Street and in Washington because of the near collapse of Bear and the hastily devised deal to save it.

The VdU was founded by two liberal Salzburg journalists former Nazi Germany prisoners who wanted to stay clear of the mainstream socialist and Catholic camps and feared that hostility following the hastily devised postwar denazification policy (which did not distinguish between party members and actual war criminals) might stimulate a revival of Nazism.