It was even possible that some brochures had been distributed to Mr. Bloomberg's volunteers from the campaign's Staten Island office.
But auditors found that the money had been distributed to roughly 18 Russian commercial banks to support the ruble's value.
Food rations a basic meal had been distributed to less than half of the people the government believed needed them.
Candles, which had been distributed to all, were lighted onstage, and in the audience, where many had already been illuminated during the anthem to brotherhood.
He was persistent; he stood outside the Vladimir Tractor Works, buying stock vouchers that had been distributed to employees, and eventually got control of the company.
Grasping a copy of his hastily compiled Gideon bible that had been distributed to his audience of invited hacks, activists and donors, Osborne laid into the opposition's spending commitments.
Copies of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," Nietzsche's most famous book, had been distributed to German troops in a durable military edition; in rucksacks all along the killing fields, it lay beside the Bible it had been meant to replace.
In April, FEMA officials said that because of bureaucratic missteps and a new interpretation of qualification standards, only $13 million had been distributed to World Trade Center victims, a fraction of the amounts paid in other disasters.
It had been raining, and clear plastic ponchos had been distributed to the audience, about three thousand people, some of whom shouted "Devo!" during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' set.
According to him, a hit list had been distributed to two élite units of the Honduran armed forces, each containing the names and photographs of dozens of activists targeted for execution.
Federal officials said Sunday that meat linked to the investigation of a case of mad cow disease had been distributed to eight states and Guam, more widely than investigators initially believed.
