The more professionalized and procedural a system is, the more insulated we become from its real effects on real people.
The picture, written and directed by Paul Haggis, is a detailed police procedural encasing a technological and metaphysical lunge at the truth.
Libya has used a procedural ruse to force a vote without any substantial discussion of the scientific, technical or economic issues.
Reid did, however, make a procedural move that could allow a vote on a compromise, which several senators from auto-producing states were feverishly trying to craft.
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Reid did, however, make a procedural move that could allow a vote on a compromise, which several senators from auto-producing states are feverishly trying to craft.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans, a procedural move that allows him to call a new vote, likely on Feb. 25.
The bill passed a procedural vote late on Tuesday evening, and a vote on the bill itself is expected shortly.
The Senate rejected a procedural move by Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, to prevent a vote on an amendment offered by Schumer that would block the deal.
On Sunday he was making a brief appearance before a panel of three judges at the Jerusalem District Court for a procedural hearing to enter his plea and set a future court date.
John Boehner, the new speaker of the House, has resorted to a procedural gimmick to try to impose spending cuts until a new budget is passed.
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He was referring to a procedural vote on Thursday in which Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal that called for eliminating some tax loopholes as part of a package with spending cuts.
But Mr. Obama used a procedural gambit known as reconciliation to gain Senate approval of ObamaCare by a simple majority vote.
The Senate took a procedural vote that fell seven votes short of the 60 needed to cut off a filibuster on the measure.
The session opened with a division on a motion to allow the Commons to sit in private, which is sometimes used as a procedural tactic to test the quoracy of the House, and was interrupted for a ministerial statement.
This led Dr Milner to propose a distinction between procedural memory (memory for a skill) and declarative memory (conscious recall of having used that skill), and to suggest that the two are stored in different places.
He was responsible for devising a procedural amendment which led the Major government to immense embarrassment over the Maastricht bill, by forcing a separate vote on the social chapter.
Sheriff Katherine Mackie continued the case to a procedural hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in June.
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Republicans brought up a procedural motion to have, you know, to do something else.
On a procedural motion, the 39 Democrats who voted to prevent its adoption were successful.
The House and the Senate could, through a procedural agreement, basically do this through unanimous consent.
The renewable electricity mandate was omitted after the Senate blocked the bill on a procedural vote last week.
However, a procedural vote is still scheduled in the Senate for Jan. 24.
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The House is using a procedural glitch in the Senate's bill to insist it's not ready to go to conference.
But with this bill almost anything could turn into a procedural Gettysburg.
Some were procedural, including a demand that UID be based on law passed by parliament, not, as now, on a mere executive order.
But the court heard that a procedural error had been made during sentencing, meaning Macdonald did not meet the criteria for an indeterminate sentence.
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Although he faced no action following inquiries in 1970 and the 1990s, the CPS said procedural changes meant a prosecution would have been pursued today.
Certainly players will vote for the option, as a procedural matter that the Saints kicked off, if only to have that piece of ammunition available.
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Because of a procedural requirement of Australian law, the Commissioner has been joined in Samsung's invalidity case against Apple in the Australian Federal Court proceedings.
But the Swedish ambassador to South Korea, Lars Vargo, told The Economist that this was a procedural matter and his country believes North Korea was responsible.
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