Quotes About Case

There is a widespread belief that Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers cause profuse and irreversible bleeding in the humans they afflict. This is only rarely the case. So why has this belief taken hold?

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.

both of whom give Avril a howling case of the maternal fantods.

of the judge's bench, and when a case was being heard, only licensed lawyers could go inside the bar railing to approach the judge with their arguments.

In addition to the Yale investigation, the molestation accusation was dismissed by New York State Child Welfare investigators who examined the case scrupulously for fourteen months

Eureka! I remember now, I accidentally came upon my parents having sex, and the trauma that I've long repressed has caused my inordinate fear of being nailed shut in a cello case.

Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

He took out another black cigarette from his silver case, fitted it into his cigarette holder, and lit it.

It was in the circuit courts that the justices fleshed out some important principles of federal law and jurisdiction. One such instance came in 1792 in Hayburn's Case.

By a customary "rule of four," it takes the votes of four justices to accept a case for argument and decision—to "grant cert.

Sometimes I just wonder if I'm being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that's not the case, but sometimes I suspect that.

Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

Still, it was a starting point for someone with my special skills—the professional ones—and I pondered it as I worked. It was, after all, an area of real personal interest to me. And additionally, if this had been Deborah's case, she would almost certainly have demanded some kind of special insight from Sick and Twisted Me. So I thought about it, and although I came up with nothing helpful, at least it passed the time.

Simple economics," I said. "I am one case, and with a limited fee. Raul, on the other hand, represents a limitless wellspring of high-cash clients. And," I said, "Raul would probably kill Kraunauer if he didn't do this.

This is Dexter Morgan," I said, and I realized I had unconsciously copied his stentorian tone. I cleared my throat to show that I didn't know I'd done it, and said, "I have some very important information to give you," I said. "Um, about my case.

Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed," she said, using a verb that I'd heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of work. It had become popular among the Mossad. They liked to use shorthand they thought was American. Zero

We were just speaking theoretically," said my father. "What does Uncle Pete know about having babies?" "He read this particular article in Scientific American," Milton said. And to bolster his case: "He's a subscriber.

Sometimes she wished she didn't have to hide. But she preferred it to being hunted by reporters again. Worse still, revealing who she was now would take necessary resources and attention away from this case. She wasn't having that. Focus must stay on the victims and catching this killer.

Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.