After the power-sharing experiment collapsed, Hume scoured the wreckage, looking for pieces to rebuild into a coherent strategy.
He had scoured the world for the best people to defuse it, and if they did a good job they deserved recognition.
Petrobras issued its much-delayed results on April 22nd, after accountants had scoured its books to find details of many years of scams and kickbacks, which are part of Brazil's biggest corruption scandal.
That fits well with the international ambitions of Werner Seifert, Deutsche Börse's chief executive, who even wants to change his firm's name to make it sound less German.Mr Seifert has scoured the continent for mergers before.
Yet tax rates are not everything when it comes to business location: when Hyundai, a South Korean carmaker, scoured central Europe earlier this year for the best spot to build its European car plant, it chose Slovakia largely because of its good infrastructure; Poland, the runner-up, lost out because of its decrepit roads.
We'd scoured the internet and read books to get as much information as possible.
An asteroid strike would have scoured much of the earth of its vegetable cover, and provided a paradise for ferns.
Dr Gonon, a neurobiologist, looked not at cancer but at another disease that gets a lot of coverage in the press, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD a fashionable diagnosis for children who struggle to pay attention at school.Dr Gonon's group scoured PubMed and Factiva, two databases containing biomedical papers and newspaper articles respectively, for reports on ADHD.
Labour MPs whooped; journalists scoured the small print for the stealth taxes.Some fancied the budget delivered by Alistair Darling on March 24th might offer its own kind of drama.
In Kurunegala, a town near the centre of the island nation, they scoured hotel rooms for unmarried lovers.
They ask whether, as one of the foundations of western law, they really need to be scoured from the public sphere.
