They can be starved of information and cajoled into scrawling their signatures on documents they hardly understand even declarations of war.
GDP apostasy An ex-cop's connections ReprintsIt was very different in the 1990s when, as a young man, Mr Ma risked being sent to a labour camp for "hooliganism", the crime then attached to homosexual behaviour, by scrawling "I'm gay" on public-lavatory walls in the hope of meeting partners.
Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, who is said to be scrawling his memoir on yellow legal pads, explains that a book will help his grandchildren understand his actions.There is scant evidence, however, that autobiographies change the public's views.
He has long chided his fellow economists for scrawling hieroglyphics on blackboards rather than looking at what it actually takes to run a business.
In one town, I see a scrawling likely to have been written by a protester several years ago: "Dear Syrian army soldier, remember that you are my brother".
The influence of Run The Jewels' production genius El-P is evident throughout Aquaria, in the soundscapes of tracks like "Brooklyn Gamma" and "C.U.R.E ., with their clanking industrial beats, itchy hi-hats, and scrawling squalls of bricolaged noise which spread like bruises through the songs, as Boots essays the stream-of-consciousness raps that leave one baffled but intrigued.
I'm perfectly capable of scrawling a shopping list but last time I was required to write a proper letter, my hand ached after a paragraph and after a page my whole arm started to seize up.
The building is covered in cheery Damien Hirst spots and residents, many with dementia – which now affects 300,000 more of the population than it did in 2010 – are encouraged to relive early memories by scrawling the names of everyone they've ever slept with on the walls of the on-site "Groucho Bar".
Moving quickly to avoid being kettled by police, the group streamed towards Piccadilly Circus, scrawling the words "smash the banks" on walls as they went.
Quite who Piers Morgan will be scrawling his 'X' next to when he goes in to do his civil duty on Thursday remains unclear.
His obdurate nature is exposed after he calls his brain-damaged, middle-aged son an idiot for scrawling on a musical score with a hand-written note by Edward Said.
