The roads crawl with the trucks of Border Patrol agents, who stop unfamiliar vehicles, scrutinize back roads for footprints and hike into the desert wilds to intercept smugglers carrying marijuana on their backs and droves of migrants trying to make it north.
Financial terms of his bid for Manchester City are sure to be scrutinized closely back at home.
EARLIER this week, while Israel's cheerleaders and Las Vegas casino moguls were parsing every syllable uttered by Mitt Romney in Jerusalem as fastidiously as the Olympic judges were scrutinizing every back flip in London, millions of Palestinians issued a giant collective yawn.
Does anyone think that some agent at the FDA with nothing better to do just suddenly, and spontaneously, decided to scrutinize the back of KIND bar packages on the off chance something in the fine print had gone unnoticed?
Scrutinize your back and shoulders.
Every assumption is analyzed, every chain of inference unhooked link by link, scrutinized and snapped back together again.
Bank officials said they had scrutinized their records back to Oct. 18, when the disks were mailed, but had discerned no unusual account activity, and the government pledged that no individuals would be responsible for any losses related to the security breach.
The two had a much scrutinized back-and-forth relationship that ended the first time in 2006 after Law confessed to cheating on Miller with his children's nanny.
His office scrutinized the rating agencies back in 2008, just as the financial crisis was beginning.
At the time, he assumed a covert reference to Ms. F. Later, when he went back and scrutinized her every utterance, it became one of those mysterious manhole covers, briefly raised over the sewer of secrecy.
It's no coincidence that, 20 years to the week after the Spice Girls released their debut album Spice, feminism has never been more championed, scrutinized, picked apart, marketed back at us by big brands, and hailed by celebrity ambassadors.
