But before Wednesday, the harassment of reporters had been scattered, and attempts to control the gripping images and narratives from Cairo had mostly failed.
The government has sought to control information since large-scale protests against Mr. Mubarak and his subordinates began last month, but overt harassment has been scattered and attempts to control the gripping images and narratives from Cairo have mostly failed.
Anything that's done in a thoughtful, systematic and persistent way has a far better chance of success, than a scattered, halfhearted attempt.
There were discarded screenplays from dead adaptation attempts scattered about Los Angeles even back when I was an up-and-coming actor.
There were scattered signs today of attempts to break the stalemate.
Much of the contemporary art scattered throughout the city attempts, if only briefly, to become part of Venice's noble architecture, as with Spencer Finch's multicolored windows at the Arsenale, the rooftops glimpsed through Mona Hatoum's cutouts of soldiers, and the unexpected projections and installations that seem to wait around every corner.
Given the legal and funding impediments to the work of NGOs and the lack of government support for these initiatives, health care programmes have only managed scattered and broadly ineffective attempts at preventing HIV in sex workers in southern Africa, their clients and by extension, the general population [ 13, 14].
During the next two years, he crushed scattered Ostrogothic resistance and stopped attempts by the Franks and Alemanni to enter northern Italy.
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