In 1803 the French navigator Nicholas Baudin in Le Géographe passed fleetingly along the western side of the territory coast, leaving a scattering of French names.
This leaves a scattering of individual lawsuits against tobacco firms in Europe, but American-style class action and massive awards are an unlikely prospect.Gilded cageOlivetti, an Italian office-equipment firm, is steaming ahead with its hostile bid for Telecom Italia.
Raymond J. Haller, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons, said the project would help the commercial areas compete at a time when "the Internet, the dot-coms and what have you" were draining some of their vitality and leaving a scattering of empty stores.
Otherwise we'd leave a scatter of lost selves babbling in the dust beside the road.
"Wherever she went," her biographer and friend Joanne Grant wrote in Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, "she created a whirlwind, leaving a scatter of papers, notes, leaflets, church programs, and phone numbers in her wake..
These ancient people dominated the eastern Mediterranean throughout the 15th century B.C., and left behind a scattering of remains that give glimpses into an organized and advanced culture.
Sometimes, however, Hwang's neat, tight scripts are so skillful that they feel as though the life had been squeezed out of them — and all that's left is a scattering of great one-liners in search of a play.
The 2001 demolition left a heap of scattered fragments.
Models of rectitude and conventionality turned out to scorn religious observance, to the point that even their funerals were held in the wild, a scattering of ashes leaving no trace.
