Any previous diversions -- Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War is a favorite instance cited -- were short, specific, and reversed or overturned.
Milligan, for instance, cites 'poor understanding of the probabilistic and statistical language of risk'.
Mr. Whitehouse, whose seat on the Intelligence Committee gives him access to classified cases, has not cited any specific instance in which President Bush secretly decided not to enforce or to change an executive order.
The inspection team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the watchdog group in charge of implementing the agreement along with the United Nations, has not publicly cited any specific instance of opposition fighters' impeding access to chemical weapons sites.
It did not cite any specific instance of this aiming practice, but the tone of the article indicated it happened fairly frequently.
Jayaraman could not cite a specific instance in which a member of the group had lost a client to a Trump business.
He cites a specific instance: the unforeseen national craze for "hush puppies" as proof that companies do not control trends; that the best a company can do is latch on to a trend that is evolving.
That may be, but one of the few specific instances that they've cited — a person in the Atlanta airport shouting, "Scott Pruitt, you're fucking up the environment!" — suggests an oversensitivity to political dissent.
It cited specific instances in which well integrity and wastewater management related to fracking activities had affected drinking water resources, but it said these instances "were small compared to the large number of hydraulically fractured wells across the country".
He did not cite specific instances in which leaders were killed, but he added, "we've been working on that".
At the gallery the concept is less vague, as Ms. Piper cites specific instances of racial violence, political assassinations and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
