Was there a breakdown in the official routine of counting, checking and locking?"

However, his spokesperson did not respond to these speculations, and Assad's official routine in 1999 had no significant change from that of the previous decade.

Citing his musical career as coming in his way of discharging his official routines, the then revenue authorities removed him from that post.

The last official routine was held at the London Palladium, the girls' official home, at the end of 2008, at a benefit for ex-servicemen.

Karl Bazinger, a liberal Wehrmacht officer "suffocating in the uniform he wore," makes the best of his official routine in occupied Paris, despite lingering doubts.

Any effort to get a written plan through would have to carry the weight of official disapproval from the start, and even a "shavey" knows that disapproval at the start is enough to kill a paper in the official routine.

He has few interests apart from horses, military affairs, money and a mistress of many years' standing; he plods through his official routines and oppressive paperwork with a dull sense of duty, and a conviction that monarchy is fast becoming an anachronistic institution.