But these days, especially in cities like Bangkok and Chiang Mai, the sprinkling has become a soaking, with everyone a target.
The recent decline of such practices, especially in cities, in favour of choosing your own mate, has coincided with huge demographic shifts.
Throughout America, and especially in cities, the nation's racial mix changed considerably.
According to many independent media reports from all over Iran, women and young voters turned out in record numbers, especially in cities where Moussavi is very popular.
If local wireless networks proliferate as expected, the traffic will generate so much noise that nobody will be able to get a clear signal, especially in cities that already have thousands of transmitters in offices and homes.
Restoring local-government powers, especially in cities, not only fits with Labour's desire to decentralise, but could make it easier to achieve better local solutions to the planning problems which the unexpected revival of cities are bound to create.
Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially in the areas of Math, Science, Technology, Special Education, and English Language Learning.
Life for China's tens of millions of homosexuals has improved markedly since then, especially in big cities.
He described the way people talk and misbehave while he plays, especially in the cities outside Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.
Most important, they are proving immune to the race-based politics that has long characterised American life, especially in the cities.
Women, meanwhile, were going out to work in ever larger numbers, especially in the big cities, in offices and department stores.
Drawing attention to the census is especially important in cities and counties with lots of people who are hard to count.
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Now, with an economic downturn under way, things are getting worse, especially in big cities where the improvements had been most noticeable.
Now prominent chains such as Lao Feng Xiang have ambitious plans to open standalone stores in next few years, especially in smaller cities.
Outside of the United States, iReporters like Larry Langner of Paris, France, found that pay phones were not terribly difficult to find, especially in major cities.
Water purification plants (especially in large cities which recycle their sewage waste right back into the drinking supply) will hopefully get prioritized for energy allocations when rationing starts.
The mandate barring American hospitals from denying treatment to anyone who lands in emergency--the root of the supposed freeloader problem--certainly imposes a heavy burden on some hospitals, especially in inner cities.
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said even though air quality in the UK is "generally good, more needs to be done, especially in the cities, to reduce the harmful effects of air pollution".
In short, sprawl does impose some costs on particular groups in America, especially those in the inner cities.
China housing prices have soared over the last five years, especially in the eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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In big cities, especially those in fast-developing countries in Asia and Latin America, gridlocked traffic is responsible for health-threatening levels of local air pollution.
The property market is buoyant, especially in the big cities.
Waze, which is especially popular in dense cities, would place Facebook at the center of people's cars and could be used to cull more real-time data based on users' behavior.
But royal supporters the Australian Monarchist League is trying to encourage its 15, 000 members to get out and welcome the Queen, especially in the big cities where republican sentiment is strongest.
Home inflation in February was especially pronounced in the top 10 cities, where prices jumped 4.3% from the previous February.
However, the recession has played its part in the recent surge in vagrancy in Japanese cities, especially with the collapse in demand for day labourers.
Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail.
In some cities of Mexico -- especially in the northern part of the country -- cartels have used violence and intimidation to control swaths of land and smuggling routes in their unquenchable quest for money and power.
Global slums are the other side of many global cities, especially in the global South.
You can only add so many towers, especially in crowded, data hungry cities like New York and San Francisco.
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