All of which risks making the novel sound like a piece of dry procedural.
He's served up a novel in the form of a legal document — a piece of obsessive procedural writing that's repetitive and minutiae-laden and that movingly veers, despite its strict adherence to logic and protocol, into absurdity and madness.
Maybe in the next Parliament he will try and attach an amendment to some suitable piece of legislation, thus avoiding the procedural hazards that beset private members legislation.
For procedural work, the radiologist time taken for procedures was considered the most accurate measure of procedural workload.
However, due to a Senate rule, Senators can hold up a nomination or piece of legislation using a variety of different procedural tools.
Executive producers John McNamara and Marty Adelstein say they wanted to develop a series that could not only work as a procedural but as a piece of historical fiction combining real-life characters and events with fictional characters such as Hodiak.
The bill goes to vote either Tuesday or Wednesday, which means that unless urgent action is taken a sensible, environmentally responsible, and economically meaningful piece of legislation will be sunk by a procedural rule.
Holt understood the importance of procedural issues.
There are a lot of procedural details.
