But that is not at all obvious from scouring the companies' annual financial reports and filings.

I have tried scouring pads and scraping with a knife, to no avail.

In the rush to get everything packed up, cooking equipment, particularly scouring pads, are often forgotten.

His success made him a magnet for an industry desperately scouring the nation for test subjects.

-he had been within a hair of scouring the city to its foundations.

Scouring the countryside for Haskeer could easily take all of us.'

How else could the border lands have gotten word of the Scouring Hunt in time to prepare a defense?

It is sometimes subjected to scouring by floodwaters.

Her roommate, Nancy Liu, has meanwhile taken to scouring craigslist.com for free cuts.

Military officials choose participants by scouring conferences held by the fast-growing industry developing surveillance and security technology.

There's some clean sand for scouring nearby.

The Shadow had a habit of scouring scumland, meeting up with small-fry crooks to make them talk.

She was also scouring the Internet for Web sites with resume-writing advice and bookmarking job boards.

It was the soldiers, led by Hamet, who'd been scouring the forest ever since Aimery's capture.

The 'Scouring of the Shire' ending in the last battle ever fought there occupies a chapter.

Everything I've read up to now indicated that the Scouring of the Shire was never filmed.

He spent nearly a year in imprisonment, until he was released after the Scouring of the Shire.

The survivors worked all day scouring the waterways and the flat, mud-covered fields that stretched about 200 acres around Durunka.

Novices scouring the roads should beware.

Changes to the site during intrusive investigation or removal of artifacts may result in scouring which exposes the site to further deterioration.

Active they were, at present, for The Shadow had set them to the task of scouring the city for a certain man named Nevlin.

"We both had to flee the Wildwood; we left just ahead of a Scouring Hunt.

That said, I also would have enjoyed the inclusion of the "Scouring" (though I'm sure my bladder disagrees).

The cleaning process, known as the Scouring of the White Horse, was formerly made the occasion of a festival.

It is the only radio adaptation to include the story of "The Scouring of the Shire" from the book.

We would scour what was going on in the culture.

The board spent a year scouring the city for its new home.

They spent the next several weeks scouring the land for food.

She was able to scour away most of the blood.

A chance she would have scoured anyone else for taking.

So did the men who had scoured the ground floor.

This place has been scoured right down to the bottom.

This was the third lot of water; he had scoured his hands red in the second.

Tomorrow you will take your 500 and scour the north.

I began to scour the area for a partner or two.

Perhaps the majority expected her to fire and scour the room.

Grass was scoured from the ground in some areas as well.

Oh, and Scott has been scouring the place for you, too.

We've been scouring the ground for him, but so far without luck.

He scoured the street and the parking area but saw no one.

They had, however, scoured the country far and wide, but without success.

It seems to take a lot of scouring around the stores.

I would scour Paris myself, only that my hands are full.

"And what will you be doing while I am scouring the countryside?"

But Administration officials have gone out of their way to scour the country for qualified women.

I raped another girl last week and now they're scouring the country for me.

"If you ask me, the Hunt should have scoured them all off the land!"

She scoured the Internet for programs her insurance might cover.

Will everyone scour the Internet just to learn this stuff?

Last night your men were scouring the area for spies.