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Bill Clinton's administration was bedevilled by self-serving leaks from ambitious staffers trying to promote themselves or their cause.

This cut to the heart of an issue that had bedevilled the company under previous chief executives.

It was the first act in a soap opera that has since bedevilled Labor's campaign against the conservative Liberal-National opposition.

One central sin that bedevilled the SIVs was that banks often used them for regulatory arbitrage.

But Japan's relations with its nearest neighbours are still bedevilled by problems of acknowledging its rapine wartime past.

Whoever wins, America's foreign policy will continue to be bedevilled by three problems that Mr Bush has had to contend with.

It has been the main cause of the technical and weight problems that have bedevilled the programme.

Even before Miss Bhutto's murder, the election campaign had been bedevilled by political conflict and terrorism.

Falsehood was then part of the fabric of the explorer's life; corrupt sources bedevilled travel literature in the 16th century.

Sakhalin Energy, meanwhile, has been bedevilled by environmental problems.

It is an issue that has bedevilled US-China relations for longer than most people think.

Germany, like Japan, is bedevilled by chronically weak domestic demand.

In the 1960s and 1970s Mexicans' uncertain status bedevilled attempts to create a civil-rights movement as potent as the black one was.

The danger is that some governments, bedevilled by emerging inflationary forces, will endeavour to reassert their grip on economic affairs.

But cultural clashes have bedevilled such cross-border deals in the past.

Bad weather bedevilled our plans.

First, the UN's climate process has for more than a decade been bedevilled by a binary split between developed and developing countries.