Yet he consolidated his power, retired potential rivals, and, by scrupulously maintaining the status quo, managed to stay ahead of the three-hundred-thousand-man Army, whose leaders are the arbiters of power in Egypt, and have been for more than forty years.
I haven't managed to become my managerial mother, scrupulously shouldering every burden.
Writing under a pen-name, scrupulously guarding her identity, eschewing literary public relations, the Italian writer has managed, in these days of hype, to find a massive global audience without flogging her physical self as an integral aspect of publication at all.
One has to wonder about the point of being scrupulously unbeholden when the result is a spectacle more lavish in its servility than almost any that Versace — a master of self-promotion who often managed to arrange for photographs from his ad campaigns to be used on the covers of fashion magazines — ever staged on his own behalf.
For a scrupulously mainstream thing, the NBA still manages to be awfully shaggy and interesting and strange, all of which are good reasons to love it.
"Investors need to have an S.E.C. that scrupulously avoids any appearances of conflict," observed Greg Valliere, managing director at Schwab Washington Research Group, a unit of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
I am a devotee of flow sheets in managing my HIV patients and keep them up scrupulously.
In "The Green and the Blue", a scrupulously balanced song about the Celtic and Rangers football teams, she even manages to tease out an upbeat message from a local rivalry that has traditionally acted as a lightning rod for bitter sectarian hostilities.
Ever since Alistair Darling rescued RBS, the Treasury has been determined to manage the taxpayers' stakes in the bailed-out banks at arm's length, being scrupulously careful not to exert undue political influence.
