| The West's appreciation for the rule of law can be seen in the lawyerly parsing of targets to ensure that they are valid and military in nature. |
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| His lawyerly grasp of a brief on every subject gives him the edge over questioners every time. |
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| The letters he sent to his captors, often in shaky, hard-to-read handwriting, reveal the lawyerly and uncompromising precision of his approach. |
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| Eventually they believe that there must be something to the charges because the endless parsing of it sounds lawyerly, desperate and boring. |
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| Putting witnesses under oath induces them to weigh every word with lawyerly care rather than freely volunteer information. |
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| He admired Mr Blair's courage over Iraq, comparing it favourably with Michael Howard's lawyerly equivocations when the going became difficult. |
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| Mr Kennard is a different sort of top Democrat: a slight, quiet, lawyerly type with a reputation for not offending people. |
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| But lawyerly nitpicking is again one factor holding up an effective response. |
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| The lawyerly demeanor of the business is now so threatening that any deviation, or sympathy with deviators, makes you a near criminal. |
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| He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery. |
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| Unfortunately the book is also full of clumsy lawyerly phrases that blunt the edge of his allegations a sign of how the English legal system constrains reports on controversial and litigious people. |
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| He remains calm, courteous and lawyerly, even on death row. |
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| Inclined to lawyerly prudence, yet not without Wilsonian idealism, he was determined to reverse that. |
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| She decided, in all her lawyerly wisdom, to publish the exchange on Twitter and tagged in a couple of wellknown feminists. |
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| He's back to his usual small-town lawyerly duties in Champaign-Urbana, handling divorces and helping people beat DUI raps. |
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| The Cooper Union speech is the longest, most lawyerly and least poetic of all Lincoln's great speeches. |
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| He has worked, in an SEO capacity, as a freelancer for Trinity Mirror and, most recently, as head of digital for Liverpool startup Lawyerly. |
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