Often, voter lists were incomplete or inaccurate.

NGO staff were often particularly exposed and vulnerable.

Also, consumers were often deceived by unregulated franchising.

The means to achieving security were often region specific.

Inmates were forced to sleep in one cell, often sideways.

Students were often sent abroad for training in foreign fleets.

Omens were often inscribed in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as were records of major events.

Laws were often misunderstood or misinterpreted, or the courts were not rigorous enough in applying them.

Migrant women were often vulnerable to violence, abuse and many inequities.

Widowed women were often unable to assert their ownership of land.

The two were often at odds over economic, social, and religious policies.

He was directly underneath the Sapa Inca, and they were often brothers.

Perhaps not by financiers and economists, but others who were watching how markets were developing often with dismay were more than worried.

Active resisters to the Nazis during World War II were often devout Christians.

Entities such as the Sun, Moon, Earth, sky, and sea were often deified.

It was often a hidden problem, since victims were afraid to speak out.

Such cases were often difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

OIOS often found that the performance indicators used were unrealistic or not measurable.

Women were especially oppressed (i.e., sentenced to lashes for singing) and were often maligned in the new improvised courts.

Nevertheless, women were still denied equal rights and access to economic resources and were often the victims of violence.

Shareholders were often required to suffer losses or were even wiped out, but bondholders were generally saved by the government s infusion of cash.

Complaints about crime and unfamiliar customs were often dismissed by liberal elites as racism.

His attacks on ECB President Jean Claude Trichet were often vicious and quite personal.

Previous recessions were often characterized by excess inventory accumulation and overinvestment in business equipment.

Weaving was still unknown at the time and clothes were often made of furs.

Unfortunately, law enforcement officials and judges were often reluctant to apply the relevant provisions.

Campaign time frames were often unrealistic and there was ineffective mobilization of local resources.

Complex investigative techniques were commonly used and prosecution was often conducted in mega cases .

However, the dangers to which United Nations personnel were exposed often resulted from atypical situations that were addressed by atypical measures.

They were more often in moods that they described as hostile, angry, anxious, and tense.

Medieval court jesters were often the only ones who could speak truth to despotic kings.

European immigrants were often part of state sponsored attempts to found colonies in the Americas.

While together, the two were often referred to as a supercouple in the Indian media.

Often the victims were raped by people known to them neighbours, domestic workers and relatives.

Unfortunately, attempts to suppress that right were frequent, and had often led to military confrontation.

Often, illegal terrorist armed groups funded by transnational organized crime were responsible for laying mines.

Looking more closely, one finds that while these controversies were often framed in religious terms, they were not at all about religion.

In Vietnam, US soldiers, many of them black, often did not understand why they were fighting.

These forces were often utilized in Oyo's distant campaigns on the coast or against other states.

Women were often forced to remarry against their will and or to bear different men's children.

They were often exposed to ill treatment when transferred to the court or to another prison.

Their respecialization opportunities were few and were often limited to developing international services, while most agricultural and manufactured exports faced stiff international competition.

Because the human subjects were often in such poor health, researchers feared that the results of the experiments were unreliable, and so human experiments were repeated on animals.

He found that, owing to capital flight and political pressure for delay, the results were often disappointing.

Opposition activists were blocked from most campaigning, and often arrested, while Kremlin controlled courts denied their complaints.