Sentence examples for procedural it from inspiring English sources

"This conference is not merely procedural, it can also bring about important policy," said Martin Kaiser, head of the International Climate Politics unit of Greenpeace.

Essentially, a ruling must make a substantive rather than merely procedural change in the law, or if it is procedural, it must make such a drastic change as to be considered a "watershed".

Timothy Searchinger, senior attorney with the group Environmental Defense, which filed a brief in the case, said that while the ruling "sounds modest and procedural," it actually offered a road map for the court to "strike down environmental rules it doesn't like," because Congress often uses broad language that the court could find insufficiently specific.

Justified's opening run is little more than a fairly conventional procedural: it introduces the people and the place, so it is – unfortunately – essential, and there are longer arcs bubbling away in the background, but it's solid without daring to try to be anything more.

The reason we have suffered from a wholly dysfunctional Congress for the past four years is not procedural: it's political.

You might be sceptical of the "truth" a show like this tells, but as a TV procedural it's brilliant – not least because of our two CID detective leads, a David Brent-like former holiday rep and his ruthless sidekick.

That was USA, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal and Comcast; the home of upbeat, aspirational procedurals, it's known as the "blue skies" network.

And yet "Cops" consistently improves on the scripted norms of police procedurals: It displays all the ugliness and ingenuity that even classic first-responder shows like "CHiPs" and "Emergency!" lacked.

As is often the case with somewhat male-specific procedurals, it burdens itself with family life in an attempt to make our hero more relatable.

But even if a compromise can overcome procedural hurdles, it remains unclear whether it can muster enough votes in the Republican-led House to pass before the 17 October deadline.

It looks cute and playful, but just below the surface, with its player crafting and procedural dungeons, it has all the clockwork systems of the genre.