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• It was bedevilled by unemployment, social exclusion and a growing sense of precariousness and inequality.

• This is a subject that has been bedevilled by the gulf between literary, liturgical and musical scholars.

• All population statistics are bedevilled by the different measures used in the census and the ways in which the figures can be presented.

• The teaching of reading had been bedevilled by wrong theory and by people ignoring abundant evidence on what really works best.

• If the concept of the urban has been bedevilled by issues of definition, so too has that of the middle class.

• Comparisons of these epidemiological data have been bedevilled by the lack of uniformity in defining the diagnostic criteria and pathology.

• Indeed, it is this failure to agree which has bedevilled the movement.

• This ensures an irenic and objective approach to a controversial subject which has almost always been bedevilled by lack of charity and by high emotion.

• But their efforts were repeatedly bedevilled by an acute scarcity of raw materials.

• The design of studies is bedevilled by the unhelpful counterposition of innate and cultural explanations, such that only the most extreme hypotheses can be disconfirmed.

• This avoids the problem of closed hardware design and system obsolescence, which has bedevilled high-end music systems in the past.

• Jurisdictional disputes between central and local authorities have always bedevilled the functioning of federal systems, rendering the theoretical designation of clear areas of competence all but impossible.

• However, difficult tenor resolutions must have bedevilled singers of more modest ability, and we have a small body of motets that survive with parts designated 'tenor ad longum'.

• A false dichotomy between good "secular nationalism" and bad "religious communalism" in statist historiography has long bedevilled our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury anti-colonialism.

• Media impact research is bedevilled by the difficulties of unravelling cause-and-effect relations.