Sentence examples for bedevil from inspiring English sources

An unnamed official in Romania went viral in March after sport.ro revealed what happened when he laid out pitch markings for a lower league game in Timis after returning from a village festival: "Such chaotic streaks as would bedevil any goalline technology".

The majority's approach, Justice Scalia charged, is "result-driven antitextualism" that "befogs" the law and promises to "bedevil our jurisprudence" with years of litigation.

This is where the hoses come in.Pete Beckman, who leads Argonne's effort to break the exaflops (a billion billion flops) barrier, says that supercomputing, though of little direct relevance to most computer users, is always the first to grapple with many problems that bedevil hardware in data centres, desktops and mobile devices.

Gauging whether people are setting aside enough from their current income depends on what you assume those people will want to consume or bequeath in future, what wealth they have already accumulated and what returns on those assets will be.Measurement problems bedevil this process.

The editors should have known better ambiguous phrases in sacred texts often bedevil Americans.Until now, that vague reference was used to justify a ban on gay young men becoming scouts.

The sectarian cracks that always bedevil Lebanese politics (in a country with 18 officially recognised "confessions") have appeared in its ranks.

One judge on the five-person adjudication panel wanted the charges dismissed, but he was replaced.However quirky, this may not be the last such case to bedevil sovereign funds.

And a hiring boom has done little to alleviate the cost-of-living squeeze that continues to bedevil the coalition.

They have invested the money in a battery that enables them to keep sewing through the power cuts that bedevil Rawalpindi, and indeed most of Pakistan, for much of the day and night.Multiply Kamran's experience across the Pakistani economy, and the common estimate that power cuts knock about three percentage points off the growth rate seems extremely conservative.

In 1973 it bought KKB, a downmarket consumer-finance specialist the sort of place, says one banker, you would go to if you couldn't get a loan elsewhere and turned it into an efficient consumer bank.Citi did a fine job of stripping out the high costs that bedevil so many of its rivals.

Such thorny choices are likely to deepen the political divisions that bedevil Thailand.