Procedural Quotes

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural. - William Peter Blatty

I do not think that the American people want to get too deeply into that, but the House could move these tax bills through in pieces much easier than the Senate ... I think we should see how we can move it as early as possible, that would be our focus, without getting caught up in procedural questions. - Trent Lott

I can confirm that Microsoft did make a formal request for the hearing to be public and the request was refused by the hearing officer because the procedural regulation explicitly prohibits this. - Jonathan Todd

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate. - Saffron Burrows

From a procedural perspective, the issues from here are: bidder due diligence; recommendation levels; and, any conditionality on the bidder's funds. - Andrew Walsh

For the last eight years, the commission has been extremely careful to follow every procedural rule to the letter. From a legal point of view, everything I know indicates the commission has been very correct. - Thomas Vinje

Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies. - Mallory Factor

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. - John Doolittle

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. - Bill Hayden