Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser, said Mr. McCain had used the time since effectively winning the nomination to methodically raise his standing by traveling the country, delivering speeches on issues including national security and the environment, and raising money, to make sure he could at least hold his own with Mr. Obama going through the summer.
Just like cable companies have long been able to methodically raise prices, sectors of the economy that are easily convertible to subscription models could soon take advantage of consumers' inertia to extract undue rents.
Once the caucusing began, Mr. Olbermann delivered a generic rundown of the candidates' final pitches, while CNN went live to real caucus rooms, locking its cameras on candidates' surrogates in baseball caps and fleece as they methodically counted raised hands in crammed school cafeterias and libraries.
Oil service operators like Halliburton and Schlumberger scaled up their capital spending and raised prices methodically.
If you believe strongly in your vision, shrinking back to the essential business that allows you to remove the white hot risk while living on the capital you've got, or raising less capital, you may be able to raise potentially much less capital on convertible debt and build value methodically before fund raising.
But instead of methodically, collaboratively, and smartly revising and implementing new, more rigorous assessments, the Commissioner and the New York State Board of Regents decided to arbitrarily, retro-actively raise the proficiency bar for the tests already taken.
The individual chapters deal methodically with the myriad issues raised by the crunch, and the policy changes that will be needed, covering everything from the American mortgage market to the need for international co- operation in regulating finance.The Stern book may be careful to avoid academic gobbledygook and complex equations, but it cannot be described as a light read.
What has happened during the last two decades is that the marriage equality movement has patiently and methodically questioned every plausible objection raised by conservative opponents.
If the film weren't so mechanically contrived — you can feel its rusty machinery cranking away — Mr. De Niro might have lent Frank a dimension that transcended the cliché of a well-meaning but clueless control freak whose fantasies of having raised perfect children are methodically dashed.
Despite legal issues from the start, Aereo has methodically rolled its service out to new markets and raised $34 million in funding earlier this year.
Obama methodically explained how you can't give cuts without raising the revenue deficit.
