"In short, what this history indispensably teaches is that the constitutional requirement that warrants must particularly describe the 'things to be seized' is to be accorded the most scrupulous exactitude when the 'things' are books, and the basis for their seizure is the ideas which they contain". Stanford v. Texas, 379 U.S. 476, 484-485, 85 S.Ct.
"That's the one we're most scrupulous about.
It is precisely at such timeswhen the privilege is under attack by those who wrongly conceive of it as merely a shield for the guiltythat governmental bodies must be most scrupulous in protecting its exercise.
BP is the most scrupulous of sponsors and they have never infringed; they have sponsored art that is challenging and difficult.
Lécuyer's book is the most scrupulous scholarly exploration so far of the cluster of innovative firms that has come to be called Silicon Valley.
Keller told me, "Ethan has proved himself to be the most scrupulous of reporters," despite intense scrutiny, "some of it honest and reasonable, some of it savagely partisan and distorted".
To success in this form of enterprise there are various roads, and it is not always the most scrupulous explorers who succeed best.
Stephens observes this from the vantage point of a columnist on The Financial Times, which is perhaps the most scrupulous of London papers, occasionally high-minded to a fault in its disinclination to impute any base motive whatever to the country's rulers.
"They're not the most scrupulous people in the world," she said.
Yet of course, even after taking the most scrupulous possible care, one can still be stabbed by one of the many hovering cancers, struck down with terrifying diseases of the nerves (Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's) or rendered nugatory by one or another form of dementia.
Poliakov's multi-volume chronicle, "The History of Anti-Semitism," is one of the most scrupulous scholarly enterprises of the postwar era.
