And, boom, that would be that — a piece of procedural ordnance so devastating in its effects and its aftermath that it has been nicknamed "the nuclear option".
The warrant law is not some tiresome piece of procedural bureaucracy, but the only safeguard against the executive branch of government targeting anyone they don't particularly like for any reason of their choosing.
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.
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.
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI also released a report on the Russian hacks that refers to them with the agency codename "Grizzly Steppe," and provides procedural details, associated usernames, and pieces of code the government claims are associated with Russian spy agencies.
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.
Yet the movie, as it's written (by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer) and directed (by McCarthy), breezes by their moral conflicts, treating their actions solely as pieces in the puzzle of a journalistic procedural.
"I voted against it on 10 or 11 times," Mr. McCain responded, then alluded to his campaign's contention that the conflicting examples involved procedural votes that he cast to keep an otherwise desirable piece of legislation alive.
Procedural generation really just means you're using a clever piece of code".
