Mine was one of four licensed premises in a scattered district of three-hundred-odd souls.
Managing online purchases can be the digital equivalent of digging through a scattered pile of paper receipts.
But it is also because a scattered electorate cannot monitor them as closely as their party superiors can.
Third, a business education can indeed produce entrepreneurs who see opportunity in a scattered puzzle and focus on putting the pieces together successfully.
He also raved about Beijing art duo Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and rhinoceroses, which stood, like a scattered herd, in several fair booths.
Joel was living on State Disability, estranged from any living family members, and just barely surviving in the way the poor do, through a scattered and unreliable network of support, stealing from Peter to pay Paul, and, gaming any system willing to be gamed.
FORBES: Negotiating Life's End on Medi-Cal - First in a Series
By comparison, Yelp has 543 reviews with star ratings for the El Castillito taqueria in San Francisco, while Facebook has 97 likes (none from my friends), and a few scattered wall posts on a sparse unofficial landing page.
For all of LaPierre's tough talk, friends and former colleagues describe a soft-spoken man who's a little scattered.
Usually I just get a few scattered results from people complaining on forums.
FORBES: FTC Remains Silent About Diabetes Telemarketer Complaints
Some 75 booming males were recorded, mostly in the bird's stronghold of East Anglia, but also a handful scattered across other counties including Lancashire, Somerset and Yorkshire.
On Thursday, it said most places would have a dry day with sunny periods, but there would be chances of a few scattered showers during the day.
But in February, Mayer also said Yahoo will be better served with just 12 to 15 mobile applications, down from a "scattered" portfolio of as many as 75 different programs in recent years.
One example: The gene that makes the Epogen protein is expressed in only a few scattered tissues and is hard to detect by conventional gene-finding methods, which discover genes not by looking at DNA but by examining the RNA messengers that ferry genetic code between the DNA itself and the cellular machinery that make proteins.
And indeed, the Fair Folks coffee itself is a variety from scattered regions of the world that end up at a Brooklyn roaster.
WSJ: From Patents to Memberships, Coffee Shops Offer New Perks
The information on which a trader based his decisions was scattered across a number of databases.
The ashes of Tony Nicklinson, who suffered from locked-in syndrome after a stroke, are to be scattered at a rugby ground where he used to play.
This was when the iridium layer was formed (many extra-terrestrial rocks are far richer in iridium than those found on Earth, so a large impact that scattered the iridium seemed a reasonable conclusion to draw), and when the dinosaurs disappeared.
ECONOMIST: Some new ideas about why life on Earth has periodic crises
For a small project in New York's Hudson Valley, he camouflaged a house's exterior by installing a grove of 32 quaking aspen trees in a sort of random, scattered pattern a few here, a few more there, five or six on either side of the structure.
WSJ: The Most Important Garden Designer You've Never Heard Of
For travellers, the main appeal of a car share service is being able to find vehicles scattered around a city at every hour of every day and night.
During the current budget year, the Census Bureau, under orders from Congress, has scattered a unit called Statistical Compendia Branch.
The notoriously conservative Met audience mostly cheered the Tony-winning director following Monday night's production premiere, with only a few boos scattered in.
Still, there may be a few, scattered reservoirs of common sense that can be mined in the effort to bring some sanity to our circumstances.
FORBES: Will A Conversation On Guns Ever Again Be Possible In America?
Between 1966 and 1973, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Lorraine Ellison recorded three albums and a bunch of scattered tracks for Loma Records, the nascent "soul" division of Warner Bros.
Major U.S. newspapers continued to struggle with declining circulation during the six months ended March 31, although a handful of scattered exceptions managed to eke out modest gains.
The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.
And when a wave meets an obstacle of about the same size as its wavelength, it is scattered in a process known as diffraction.
Inspired by the theories of Marshall McLuhan, he envisioned a series of domed theaters scattered around the world, each with its own programming but connected in a networked library of films and images that would have anticipated the World Wide Web.
WSJ: Ghosts in the Machine | New Museum | Beyond Human | By Kristin M. Jones
At Disneyland in Anaheim, the oldest of the company's four theme parks, the company is building California Adventure, a microcosm of the state that will allow the tourist in a hurry to visit Venice Beach, Napa Valley, the Golden Gate, a redwood grove and a host of other sights that in real life are inconveniently scattered, all in a single day.
ECONOMIST: Some of the best tourist destinations are man-made
Thatched bungalows are scattered about a landscaped compound dominated by a cliffside infinity pool.
THEY'RE VERY pretty scattered over a salad or floating on the surface of a chilled spring soup.
应用推荐