Sentence examples for could pick over from inspiring English sources

Rakoff ruled that Picard, in his effort to recover money from Wilpon and Katz, could pick over only a sliver of time from their long years of investing with Madoff.

In the 1990s, MPs could pick over the bones of the Maastricht Bill.

The historians will pick over that question.

"When we saw the colt and the two fillies with their ribs sticking out, there was no way we could pick one over or another.

The amount of cord-cutting could pick up over time, but networks like ESPN are limiting the amount of video they make available on the Internet without a subscription partly to prevent that.

That is when Republicans could pick a fight over the debt ceiling and when Mr. Obama said the politics of the midterm elections would begin to take hold.

What if you could pick one thing and start over from scratch?

After arriving at the festival's epicentre on the Venetian Lido, I discovered that anyone swinging with the under-26 (or over-60) crowd could pick up a six-day "Cinema" pass for €100 (or €130) for the whole festival.

"I would choose you all over again if I could pick my parents," I said.

Out in the country with an antenna and a well-powered radio, you could pick up stations from all over the country.

Then there's the inevitable downside of any booming trend: with food tours cropping up all over, you could pick one led by a local chef, an award-winning cookbook author or an experienced blogger, or you could wind up with some food-truck-savvy charlatan who just moved to town.