During the current budget year, the Census Bureau, under orders from Congress, has scattered a unit called Statistical Compendia Branch.
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.
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.
And when a wave meets an obstacle of about the same size as its wavelength, it is scattered in a process known as diffraction.
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.
Wreckage was scattered over a half-mile area, forcing the closure of the busy roadway for several hours.
Even so, the congressional election may give the scattered opposition a chance to exploit a slowing economy and rising inflation.
Dumisa Ntsebeza said this would give him time to consult his clients, who are scattered across a vast rural area.
In regions with small schools scattered over a large area, providing support was going to be very expensive, particularly as computers grew older.
Stalls scattered throughout a warren of streets opposite the ferry dock display everything from glistening fresh fish to artfully constructed pyramids of spices.
Habib and the village elders recalled the attack while sitting in the middle of the devastated school, where debris was still scattered across a vast yard.
Then there is the ancient city of Palmyra, another Unesco World Heritage site, whose ruins lay scattered across a desert oasis 150 miles northeast of Damascus.
In its central aim of giving the scattered Jews a sense of national peoplehood and providing them with a haven, Zionism has been a brilliant success.
Various animal bones were also discovered scattered across a field.
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.
Run by the same Croatian-Italian clan since it opened as a single villa in 1909, the hillside property overlooks an idyllic cove and has expanded into seventeen rooms tucked into charming bungalows and cottages, scattered throughout a lush, century-old botanical garden roamed by imported peacocks.
Scattered across a 125-mile network of well-marked trails managed by the local not-for-profit Methow Valley Sport Trails Association lie aspen groves, isolated ranches, foraging mule deer, and enough slippery descents to make even the most experienced powder hounds grip tightly to their ski poles.
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.
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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.
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Mine was one of four licensed premises in a scattered district of three-hundred-odd souls.
Earlier, Mr Le Drian said the jihadists had now scattered, marking a "turning-point" in France's intervention.
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.
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