Sentence examples for have been methodically from inspiring English sources

Scientists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center, at Cornell University, have been methodically tracking climate conditions, including the warmest March on record, that seem made for mosquitos.

Would Hitler get "points" from The Economist for his boldness in foreign policy?Mark WilberOakland, CaliforniaPalestineSIR - Israeli soldiers and settlers have been methodically misdirecting our attention, and even our sympathy, for years ("Abbas sends in his men", Economist.com, January 21st).

For at least a year now, Sunni extremist gunmen have been methodically attacking members of the Hazara community, a Persian-speaking Shiite minority that emigrated here from Afghanistan more than a century ago.

For the past couple of weeks, the same crew of young rock climbers who, along with the Starns, spent six months erecting the massive but seemingly weightless triumph of instinctual engineering have been methodically disassembling it.

Mr. Christie declined to answer any specific questions about the case, but people who know of the investigation said that prosecutors have been methodically grinding through documents related to the billboards and are expected to begin calling witnesses before a grand jury toward the end of the summer.

But those who have been methodically putting money into pension plans (often known in America as 401(k) schemes) must be wondering why they bothered.Figures from Morningstar, an investment-research firm, show that an American who put $100 a month for the past ten years into the average equity fund would have accumulated just $10,932 $1,068 less than he invested (see chart 1).

The Supreme Court has been methodically whittling away at severe sentences.

He has been methodically creating an image as an alternative to the Democrats.

She has been methodically dismantling centrist liberalism for a long time.

When the operation was finished, even the little terra-cotta statues in the sacristy had been methodically decapitated.

The story that Mr. Yaacoub told investigators had been methodically prepared to deflect suspicion while he gathered intelligence in Cyprus.