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Seven people were wounded when soldiers fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds.

Police fired shots and used teargas to disperse the demonstrators.

Unlike aquatic and marine forms, land plants cannot always rely on water currents to carry their sex cells and disperse their fertilized eggs.

Alternative strategies have evolved in some plants, such as those that produce fewer but larger seeds that are dispersed to suitable sites by birds or small mammals or those that produce long-lived seeds.

In the second case, pollinators (insects, birds) obtain food from the flowering plant, and the plant has its pollen distributed and seeds dispersed much more efficiently than they would be if they were carried by the wind only.

They are dispersed by some other agent, like the wind.

We find it difficult to get to know people personally when they are milling about and dispersed in large groups.

This friction tends to slow the speed of winds, making them far less efficient at dispersing pollutants.

The crowd dispersed peacefully after prayers.

They disperse into each other.

I mean if the…er…you know, if the seeds cannot really disperse in the wild area, then, you know, the tree may not colonize new areas.

By 8200B.C., drought conditions were so severe that the people abandoned their long-established settlement, perhaps dispersing into smaller camps.

Numerous changes accompanied these developments. The rural population both dispersed and grew, and was probably less homogeneous and more mobile than it had been a generation earlier.