Media impact research is bedevilled by the difficulties of unravelling cause-and-effect relations.
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.
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'.
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.
This avoids the problem of closed hardware design and system obsolescence, which has bedevilled high-end music systems in the past.
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.
But their efforts were repeatedly bedevilled by an acute scarcity of raw materials.
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.
