The Politburo had to abandon its Damascus headquarters, and is now scattered in capitals throughout the Arab world.
Some militias, checkpoints and roadblocks remain scattered across the capital.
The Audit Commission is to all intents and purposes gone, its intellectual capital scattered.
On the other hand, the New Yorkers were thrilled by the organic farms scattered around the capital.
More than 1,300 publicly accessible points will be scattered across the capital – in residential streets, supermarkets, car parks and leisure centres.
Like many of the women who make up 80% of the city's vendors, she is entirely reliant on the income she generates selling produce at the sprawling and chaotic markets scattered throughout the capital.
In the squatter camps now scattered across this capital, there are still people writhing in pain, their injuries bound up by relatives but not yet seen by a doctor eight days after the quake struck.
In the abstract, it sounds like a lot of money, but when you're talking about supporting all of London's far-flung high streets – there are in the order of 600 such local centres, scattered around the capital – it really doesn't add up to very much.
The 50 brightly coloured benches have been scattered around the capital over the summer in the Books about Town project, a collaboration between public art impresarios Wild in Art and the National Literacy Trust, to celebrate London's literary history while raising money for the NLT's work to improve literacy in the UK.
The United States ambassador, while expressing cautious optimism that balloting would be fair and orderly, raised concern that many people, especially the more than one million who have been living in tent encampments scattered across this capital city since January's earthquake, may not be aware of basic information like the location of the island nation's 11,000 polling places.
