Sentence examples for a straight case from inspiring English sources

IT IS, some will think, a straight case of educational correctness.

M. interjecta has a straight case made of sand grains and small bark particles (see figures below for M. interjecta).

Obviously when you've just had a procedure like that, it's important to keep a straight face in case the stitches burst open.

But the San Francisco Tax Assessor's Office made that argument last week — with a straight face — in the case of Jon Stuber and his modest two-bedroom, one-bath condominium in the inner Mission.

All of it was hilarious precisely because Gardner reported essentially with a straight face: in most cases, taking these weird claims seriously was ridicule enough.

The blocking duo can hardly still argue that case with a straight face.

Given the history of the anti-same-sex marriage camp, it's hard to make that case with a straight face (so to speak).

A case can be made (although I disagree with it) that the chained CPI more accurately measures inflation for the general population, but no expert can make the case with a straight face that it is more accurate for Social Security.

Sometimes, Ms. Lloyd Platt said, it is hard to keep a straight face, as in the case of the petition claiming "the respondent is unreasonably demanding sex every night from the petitioner, which is causing friction between the parties".

That includes students, who have to demonstrate their competence on one "straight case" (an ordinary death) and one "post-mortem case" (which involves putting the body back together after a coroner has examined it).

Analysis B is a straight forward case-crossover analysis falsely assuming that the risk of falling is equal over the whole day.