Though the hurdles in his case were unusually high, identifying a body can be difficult for immigrants or others who are far from or bereft of family or friends.
The Scottish transport operator FirstGroup has been accused by Canada's government of acting like a "bullying multinational" by slashing rural routes on its Greyhound Canada bus network, in a cost-cutting move that risks leaving far-flung towns bereft of regular links to the rest of the country.
But there is a twist: the games are played far from manicured fields and are bereft of highly paid players.
The nostalgic bias of country music, with its lyrics about grinding poverty, orphaned children, bereft lovers, and lonely workers far from home, held special appeal during a time of wide-scale population shifts.
When I realized, the night of the car wreck, that if Ray died I would be utterly bereft — that it would be far better for me to die with him than to survive alone — I was not thinking of myself as a writer, primarily, or even as a writer at all, but as a wife.
Tom Courtenay, the lovely Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve, Cherie Lunghi, Bernard Hill, Gemma Jones, Frances Tomelty, far from least Ruth Sheen – and I felt quietly bereft at the end.
Eliza's face is far too clean in the flower stalls, which are jarringly bereft of flowers.
So they would arrive completely bereft of energy, their weight would be sometimes far lower than their fat-free weight, which meant they were burning muscle to get to the Delaware Bay.
Another focus: the dozens of small and often bereft mill towns that dot the rivers and valleys far from the shiny downtown core.
Squeezed between far more powerful armies Israel's to the south and America's in Iraq and bereft of friends, the country is under pressure to sue for peace.Enter the other Arab countries.
