| When not bedevilled by his personal demons his mind is razor-sharp and positive and he uses his cue as if it was a magician's wand. |
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| With its over-educated, overworked, underpaid legions, publishing is an industry bedevilled by pessimism. |
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| It's also a product of the economism that has bedevilled the union movement in this country. |
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| He brought a wealth of experience and hardheaded pragmatism to a problem bedevilled by fond hopes, misperceptions and sheer ignorance. |
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| In the strange pandemonium that has always bedevilled Sudanese politics, even weirder things have happened. |
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| No such illusion bedevilled the artifice of the opera, the equivalent art form of the late seventeenth century. |
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| My three-day tour in the French Basque country was bedevilled by all sorts of trouble. |
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| And the database on aid to education is still bedevilled by conceptual problems and reporting inadequacies. |
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| The shot indeed captured the club at an extremely low ebb, relegated to the Second Division and bedevilled by hooliganism. |
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| Their game for most of the first 50 minutes had been bedevilled by individual errors: the collective will was there but not the skill. |
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| The business enterprise without records is bedevilled by the rush to catch up with developments that records would have enabled it to anticipate. |
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| This crisis was caused in part by failures to meet the same challenges that bedevilled the architects of the original Bretton Woods system. |
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| Either wages will have to go up sharply to meet the demand for more staff or the scheme will be bedevilled by labour shortages. |
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| Portraiture is an art unusually bedevilled by duplicates and copies. |
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| By his selections and approach, he has shown that he is determined to find a way through the racial morass that has bedevilled most of his predecessors. |
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| This will only undermine farmers' confidence in the ability of Europe and its institutions to bring stability to a sector already bedevilled recently by falling income and unstable markets. |
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| This is what bedevilled the relationship between our Parliament and the previous Commission: the fact that we, under the Treaties, have access and the right of access to all information in principle. |
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| I am well aware that our discussion of this directive is bedevilled by confusion, because the potential risks posed by a number of its provisions are not obvious. |
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| Happily, we are all witness to infinitely more hopeful trends that could prelude the end to a conflict and an injustice that has bedevilled relations in the region and the world at large for half a century. |
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| Such development in this section of the St. Lawrence is currently bedevilled by the limited public access to the river, which constrains development of some water-related activities. |
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| With collective redress, yes, we are happy that you look at it and we go forward in that area, but please do not let us end up where we have with contract law, bedevilled with questions over legal base and other issues. |
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| What starts as an Ayckbournish comedy, with a public meeting bedevilled by a faulty amplification system, turns into a full-on endorsement of unpeaceful protest. |
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| I am concerned that the increasing number of elderly people who lose vision are to be programmed by the low expectations that have bedevilled the lives of blind children and working-age adults for generations. |
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| In this area progress has remained slow and has been bedevilled by multiple supply channels created by donors or vertical disease control programmes. |
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| The bottom line is that while the developed world prospers, much of the rest of the world is bedevilled by the disastrous consequences of armed conflict between ethnic and religious groups. |
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| The peace accord signed on 23 March by the Government and the CNDP, facilitated by Presidents Obasanjo and Mkapa, has laid the foundations to settle critical issues that have long bedevilled the Kivus. |
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| It should be noted that such research is bedevilled by serious methodological problems: how much did the mothers actually drink, and what is the precise definition of a low consumption level? |
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| Nevertheless, the steps taken to remove officials responsible for human rights abuses or corruption in no way matched the magnitude of the problem and were bedevilled by procedural an administrative obstacles. |
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| There is no agreement between the two Governments on where the boundary lies, which is a problem that has bedevilled the situation for some time. |
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| We know capital projects are often bedevilled by delays and overspends. |
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