But there is equal evidence that sometimes arrests and other tactical moves are haphazard, the reflection of erratic local priorities.
I moved through a haphazard assemblage of surfaces, still gray in the opalescent predawn light.
Compounding these wrongs, Congress is moving in a haphazard fashion to provide a "get out of jail free card" to the telephone companies that violated the rights of their subscribers.
At 6 a.m. yesterday, the darkness at Churchill Downs was defined by shadows, with grooms, trainers and riders moving in a haphazard choreography of chores in the refreshing chill of spring air.
Yevgenia Chirikova, an environmental activist turned opposition leader, said she feared the Kremlin would move beyond the haphazard arrests and the deployment of pro-Kremlin youth groups that have so far marked its response to the protests.
But with no big hits coming out of any of those moves, the strategy looked increasingly haphazard and ill-managed.
Sometimes moving, sometimes funny but more often haphazard, "Velocity" is clearly the work of a talented writer cruising along on automatic pilot.
Absorbing, amusing, and, at times, even moving, the book ultimately suffers from both haphazard organization and a glibness that, though possibly an asset in standup, denies Silverman's story the degree of self-examination it needs.
Despite its haphazard structure, The Trip to Echo Spring is original, brave and very moving.
Carefully balancing knees, elbows, hands and shoulders on the cartons, he moves them forward one by one to plot his own slow, haphazard pathway around the flotsam.
Dr. Dunn hopes that the project will begin to unravel the consequences of moving from caves to creating environments around us in a haphazard way.
