How To Use Bedevil In A Sentence

The Western Cape's pursuit of an inclusive South African identity is bedevilled by ... the persistence of white privilege rooted in historical baaskap and black exclusion," the document said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
It is a subject that knows no bounds or time limits, and the demands of the role continue to bedevil women who assume it. Cherie Burns: Stepmotherhood Never Ends
bedevil" government's privatisation plans, industrial relations and human resources company NMG-Levy said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
But what plagues American still bedevils the rest of the airline industry, which has racked up $55 billion in losses in the past decade. Airlines Are Driven to Nickel and Dime

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Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
The senator has been bedeviled by allegations of corruption.
Partly this is down to that old bedevilling British thing, class: Mr. Cameron is from very well-bred stock, and so are almost all of his lieutenants. The Election of Gordon W. Bush
South Africa was still "bedeviled" by racism and Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale's family's experiences in a Rouxville, Free ANC Daily News Briefing
But the voices continued to bedevil her, and later that year she was committed to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
In spite of the precision and speed of information, fog and friction will continue to bedevil military operations.
For one thing the theft of a famous object is always bedevilled by the circumstance of its being indisposable through the usual channels. Killer Dolphin
For investors, management's focus on cash flow is important since consumption trends may continue to bedevil the industry.
Parker to try to "bedevil" Cape Town's Olympic bid chances with his threats, NP sport spokesman Nick Koornhof said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
But this is a problem which bedevils political thought everywhere.
Domestically, complaints about university tuition fees and the state of the health service continue to bedevil him.
Conspiracy theories, as Sarima had said, seemed to bedevil her thinking. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
He didn't even blame the drink, which he had reason to, given it had bedevilled his poor mother's life. Football's modern-day delinquents make me pine for George Best | Kevin Mitchell
Allegations and counter-allegations of appeals to base racist sentiments may advantage the short-term factional interests of political parties, but they will leave a legacy of resentment and ethnic tension which will bedevil our region for years to come," Mr Keegan said in a statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
AFTRA's negotiations with the networks and television producers resume this week and the big issue, according to a source close to the process, is the same one that's bedeviled Hollywood labor for the past several years: health and retirement. Jonathan Handel: Health and Retirement Are the Hangup in AFTRA Netcode Negotiations (Exclusive)
More is needed to prevent a bigger intergenerational transfer burden from bedeviling our political future.
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.
That's the only sign of progress in the protracted battle against the besetting gridlock that bedevils our bodies, minds, souls, and psyches day-in and day-out. John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
Conspiracy theories, as Sarima had said, seemed to bedevil her thinking. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
This is the Buenos Aires I have fallen in love with, full of inconsistencies, bedeviled by its tragic circumstances.
The senator has been bedeviled by allegations of corruption.
Uncertainty over what to do with nuclear waste bedevils nuclear power.
You are also entitled to bedevil your contributions to this blog with a wide variety of spelling, grammatical and other non-typo errors which betray various things about you and by which you may be judged … should you wish to. on April 2, 2010 at 12: 24 am Vetnurse G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
It was one of the features that had "bedevilled" the case, he said. BBC News - Home
The issue of in camera hearings had been "bedeviled" by the recent controversy over secret indemnity applications by two former cabinet ministers, the police commissioner and 3500 policemen. ANC Daily News Briefing
Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Lining one side of the Forum are stone Medusa faces with eyes that still bedevil the onlooker, whilst at the far end, under a columned portico, the remains of a Roman bar recall present-day cafes in Florentine or Venetian piazzas.
Yet even as we rely on numbers, we are bedeviled by innumeracy, the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy.
His list of vices began and ended with the bedevilment of opposing pitchers. WILLIE MAYS
He said: ‘We started off very well but then work was bedevilled by delays due to supply of materials and bad weather.’
Mr Levin has also spent a fortune in shareholder money to resolve the internal rivalries bedeviling his game plan for Time Warner.
He can bedevil his opponent all through the February primaries and caucuses in 17 states.
He was taught to see again how Rhetoric haunts, and Rhetoric bedevils, the vindication of the clouded, especially in the case of a disesteemed Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1
Chicago office with the rest of the daily mail, and the halting quality of the lettering on the envelope suggested a slightly diminished fine motor coordination that often bedevils seniors. Andy Shaw: 'Angels' in Search of a Better Government
Even the fiercest hunting animals we so bedevilled that they learned to leave our places alone. CHAPTER VI
Designed to frustrate readers and bedevil critics, this "underbook" is Oates 'riff on post-modernist self referential, inter-texual writing about writing. Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet
What I don't understand is why this tragic case should be an occasion for the partisan hatred which currently bedevils our public life.
Days past his 86th birthday, Carter seems intent on making his displeasures abundantly known and arguing again with the men who bedeviled him, even though most are no longer on this Earth to fight back. In church or in print, former president Jimmy Carter still preaches policy
In the whole nauseating story of double-dealing that has bedevilled cricket over the last year or so, nothing has been more intriguing than our own almost comical realisation that there is a very fair chance of English involvement.
The most unexpected, and potentially risky, aspect of NATO's resurgence is Abdul Razziq, the 32-year-old police colonel best known for allegations of pocketing millions of dollars in illegal customs dues, who has left the border to lead hundreds of his militiamen into Taliban-held villages that have bedeviled NATO troops for years. U.S. operations in Kandahar push out Taliban
I guarantee that none of the lessons I've prescribed will take root; I will swear at traffic, get peeved at fellow mortals, drop off to sleep thinking about the petty bedevilments of the coming day.
He is also pledged to get rid of the secrecy that seems to bedevil things going on at the Town Hall.
It's also a product of the economism that has bedevilled the union movement in this country.
The question reflects both the tantalizing sense that somebody, somewhere, is working on an extraordinary breakthrough and the bedeviling suspicion that, whoever they are, they aren't turning up to do show-and-tells at big industry gabfests.
The expedition was bedevilled by bad weather.
The new building was bedevilled by elevator failures.
It is these inequalities that bedevil the operations of the troubled music companies, as much as piracy.
Examining the crucial elements leading to World War I, he exposes how a pack of falsehoods and the militarist myths they serve may bedevil us still.
Domestically, complaints about university tuition fees and the state of the health service continue to bedevil him.
In the past, the discussion on the role of the state in public communication has been bedevilled by the East-West conflict.Sentence dictionary
In foreign-exchange markets, the euro recovered a little after falling sharply against the dollar on Monday as investors continued to fret about the debt problems bedevilling the euro-zone periphery. Asian Stocks Are Mixed; BOK Rate Cut Hits Seoul
The desire to be taken seriously bedevils many funny people, and therein lies the rub.
These are questions that have long bedeviled historians who study children and childhood in early modern Europe.
Submit your comment A task team convened to look into the "bedevilled" affairs of the SABC has found some progress has been made in its turnaround strategy, Communications WN.com - Articles related to Steel industry crucial to renewable energy efforts
This injury bedevilled him throughout his career.
It was these challenges that were so "bedevilling" to progress, he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
In a joint statement on behalf of all the observer missions, the United Nations Observer Mission said although school boycotts in the past had been used to keep the struggle for democracy alive, the time had come -- in view of multiparty negotiations -- for pupils to seek alternative methods to solve issues "bedevilling" the education system. ANC Daily News Briefing
During Samhain, people outfitted themselves in masks and costumes as a sort of protection ritual, believing that one could successfully hide behind such a disguise and thereby escape bedevilment by the masses of spirits on the loose. Donna Henes: Doing Death Before it Does Us
As often bedevils the translator's task there appears to be at least one lacuna in the extant text, but it was relatively painless to decipher.
It is time to put a stop to the crisis management that bedevils our health system.
The arts and cultural sector has been bedevilled by almost 30 years of attempts to prove its worth in terms of 'impact', both social and economic with recent work looking into the intrinsic impact of participation. Economics speaks louder than words when making the case for UK culture
He's confident, firm, unflustered and willing to debate the many thorny issues bedeviling SA rugby.
It is, say the grumblers, our version of the West Lothian question bedevilling parliament – 80% of the membership is in the south-east. Hugh Muir's diary
Herinability toset outa positive message illustrated a problem that is bedevilling the Tories at the moment: they do not have enough of a vision for the country. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Gwyneth Paltrow deserves better than the clich é s that bedevil "Country Strong," which was written and directed by Shana Feste. 'Witch': Toil And Trouble
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.
But on the big questions that bedevil society and require careful collaboration between and across business and government, business is largely MIA. Judith Samuelson: Help Wanted at the Top, Collaborative Skills Needed; Women May Apply
With its over-educated, overworked, underpaid legions, publishing is an industry bedevilled by pessimism.
He bailed out just a few gates into the slalom, a casualty of "grabby" snow that bedeviled a slew of skiers. TheState.com: The Buzz
His career was bedevilled by injury.
Poland, for example, has large training grounds and ranges not subject to the civilian encroachment or heavy regulations that have bedeviled U.S. forces in Germany.
Portraiture is an art unusually bedevilled by duplicates and copies.
This injury bedevilled him throughout his career.
Given the severity of the knee trouble that has bedevilled King's career, it said much that the defender was starting a match for the second time in seven days. Tottenham lose their attacking rhythm with Harry Redknapp absent
“born-again illiterate Jesus freaks, tattooed and pierced illiterate suburban kids, fake gangsta illiterate urban youth, orange-skinned horse-faced illiterate high-school dropout gals who aspire to celebrity sluthood or a career in the Army, violent illiterate psychopathic “Juggalos” and a bedeviled minority of depressed semi-literate goth & emo teens in the Midwest” Dustbury.com » And Tom wins it in a walk
They did create chances, but failure to take them has been the bedevilment of their season.
The decision-making is bedevilled by what Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens calls "reverse nimbyism", which "decrees the NHS offers an 'everything everywhere' service and local hospitals are deemed sacrosanct". Radical change in the NHS is essential
Conspiracy theories, as Sarima had said, seemed to bedevil her thinking. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
I can't do ten mile hikes anymore, or just grab a bag and head out for the weekend, but I've gained the self-knowledge that enables me to avoid the kinds of problems that bedeviled me in my 20s, and that's unlocked a level of happiness I never approached before. Random Thought Number Two on the Hoosier Hypocrite---Now With More Middle-aged Sex Appeal.
The problem of bed-blocking, where patients, particularly the elderly, have to stay in hospital and take up beds despite being well enough to leave, has bedevilled the health service for decades.
Railway engineers looked on with envy at these smooth running rotative engines, which required no balancing and had no reciprocating motion to bedevil things.
The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
But the voices continued to bedevil her, and later that year she was committed to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
Systemic treatment of cancer is bedevilled by the similarity of tumour cells to normal cells, at least under most physiological conditions.
The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
For a long time England's rugby renaissance seemed timed to coincide with the arrival of Godot on stage, but the improvement detectable in last autumn's Twickenham internationals was again apparent in Cardiff on Friday night, if we ignore the kind of indiscipline that bedevilled Martin Johnson's first year or so in charge. Vince Lombardi and Alex Ferguson are cleverest manipulators | Paul Hayward
Conspiracy theories, as Sarima had said, seemed to bedevil her thinking. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
Ever since I started playing tennis, I've been bedevilled by back pains.
Far too much contemporary film criticism, whether journalistic or academic, is bedeviled by equally odorous orthodoxies.
While Milk benefits from an amazing performance in the title role by Sean Penn and other excellent performances by Vincent Garber at Mayor Moscone and Josh Brolin as Supervisor Dan White, it suffers because it has in miniature some of the same tensions in intent that have kind of bedeviled Van Sant's career as a whole. Archive 2008-12-01
Mr. Tate, his dog under his arm, paused at the door to fling over his shoulder another muttered taunt about "bedevilment," and disappeared. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
WASHINGTON — Lee Sachs , a former top adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and John Delaney , former chief executive of CapitalSource Inc., are taking aim at a problem that has long bedeviled the Obama administration: how to boost lending at smaller banks. New Firm's Goal: Big Deals for Small Banks
'The threat of the' tsotsi 'is permanent,' the priest said, referring to the young armed black gangsters who bedevil South ANC Daily News Briefing
; and for his fictions to poor old gossiping Aubrey; while his inferences, in respect to Hariot's deism and disbelief in the Scriptures, are probably his own, as we find no sufficient trace of them prior to the appearance of his AthenÃ¦, unless it be in Chief Justice Popham's unjust charge at Winchester in 1603, when he is said to have twitted Raleigh from the bench with having been 'bedeviled' by Hariot. Thomas Hariot
I'm sure the establishment does this sort of thing for bedevilment. Porter Not Free Yet....
He bailed out just a few gates into the slalom Saturday morning, a casualty of "grabby" snow that bedeviled a slew of skiers. Fore, right!
Kate also bedevils her hunky D.A. ex-husband Michael Trucco Battlestar Galactica, when she isn't bedding him on the houseboat where she lives. Roush Review: A Thursday Logjam
But The Left Hand of Darkness is haunted and bedeviled by the gender of its pronouns, a wild, fierce, and intractable tribe. SF Tidbits for 3/31/09
A single example will suffice: the recent resurgence of panpsychism as an answer to the bedevilling mind/body problem. The Times Literary Supplement
Gilead, Ames perceives Jack's questions at a gathering with the Boughtons about predestination as another of his familiar efforts at "bedevilment:" simply trying to cause problems, embarrassment or conflict between Ames and Old Boughton by toying with their differing theological commitments. The Daily Register
My three-day tour in the French Basque country was bedevilled by all sorts of trouble.
That insularity bedevils trade unionism to this day. Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You
The frogs are important because many scientists think that our slimy green pond brethren can tell the future by being susceptible to diseases that will bedevil us bipeds down the line.
His rule was bedevilled by constant friction with a well-entrenched ‘Anabaptist’ faction, which his thin-skinned, slightly paranoid nature made him too prickly in handling.
County commissioners say their goal is to reduce the number of inmates being released early or immediately after booking - a problem that has "bedeviled" the county for years due to a lack of resources, said Commissioner Todd Portune. Cincinnati.Com - All Local News
It's a question that bedevils news managers, as journalists continue to work in danger zones where hostile fire, kidnapping, thievery, and muggings are part of a day's work.
She is on the same approximate low level of intellectual attainment and curiosity that bedevils the vast majority of the FoxNews goobers. Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor.
Shields bedeviled the Yankees with his changeup, not allowing an extra-base hit until the seventh, when he gave up two doubles for the only Yankee run. Yanks' Sabathia Loses Latest Battle of the Aces
Without a low-cost way to get into orbit this problem will continue to bedevil the space industry and its supporters.
Treating the Universe as a hologram might solve one of the biggest problems bedeviling modern physics.
This slippage or loss of message also bedevils the great Roman frescoed vaults of Carracci, Reni, Guercino and Baciccio, which, for the delighted but perplexed spectator, have become, essentially, over-the-top entertainments. The Heirloom City
I think you should have listened and paid attention to what he said in terms of the difficulty, because that's what bedevils us right now.
If the Law Commission's recommendations are enacted they will remove some of the worst anomalies that currently bedevil the law on recovery for negligently inflicted psychiatric damage.
‘The worst bedevilment of all is being in exile within one's own skin,’ he wrote.
All the Montlake issues bedevilling the current plan are all there but worse under McGinn's plan. Extra Fizz: McGinn’s 520 Plan Could Allow Eight Lanes of Traffic « PubliCola
It was Adolf Julicher who sounded the death – knell in allegorizing the Parables that had bedeviled their interpretation throughout the centuries. Parables �� What are?
My guess is that eliminating the double taxation of dividends would lead to a powerful rally in stock prices and would do much to lift the penumbra of uncertainty that has bedeviled both consumers and corporate managers.
Creating the 25 tonnes thrust rocket engine for the A4 was also bedeviling. MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction
Uncertainty over objectives has bedevilled public libraries for many years.
We hope they'll choose one of these fish over something like the poor bedeviled codfish, which is still being overfished on George's bank. Susie Middleton: Slow Fish on Martha's Vineyard: Uh, How Does That Work, Exactly?
The debate over how to deal with illegal immigrants has bedeviled the country for years.
The decision-making is bedevilled by what Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens calls "reverse nimbyism", which "decrees the NHS offers an 'everything everywhere' service and local hospitals are deemed sacrosanct". Radical change in the NHS is essential
What we really do all have is a daily reprieve from the things that "bedevil" us. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Smitty glanced at her and noticed the bedevilment settling on her features.
I'd say that what bedevils Pop now is its lack of artiness.
The result was a profound ethnic divide that continues to bedevil political life.
Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, says the system, under which "100% of prisoners, 100% of the time had to leave an electronic thumbprint" whenever they moved from one part of the jail to another, bedevilled the operation of the entire jail. Prison hampered by flaws in hi-tech roll call system, report reveals
All the gaps I've been discussing are the sorts of things that bedevil, perhaps inspire, all biographers, indeed all gossipers.
Bedeviled by rogue yeasts and other oenological disasters, the two men at times thought they might lose their sanity and their business, Browne says. California cult-wine makers pursue label of exclusivity
Legal issues continue to bedevil the e-book market.
Knipe said publication of the man's picture had "bedevilled" the investigation. ANC Daily News Briefing
At home, in a quiet bystreet of a village, the man had been a worthy carpenter, and, even bedevilled as he is, he shows some private virtues. In the South Seas
There is no evidence of the growing pains that often bedevil follow-up albums recorded with additional personnel and the dubious luxury of a multi-track recording desk.
The fear: Rising prices will bedevil Indian central bankers, the way they did back in early 2008 when a global food crisis hit the rupee. Euro, Pound Face Growing Inflation Threat
The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.
The question of how to revitalize Britain's economically moribund regions has bedevilled successive governments for at least three decades. How Big Government Killed Britain's Regions
In the strange pandemonium that has always bedevilled Sudanese politics, even weirder things have happened.

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