He proceeded methodically, until Stalin called him at 3 30 the next afternoon.
When vetting a painting, he proceeds methodically, analyzing brushstrokes, composition, iconography, and pigments — those elements which may reveal an artist's hidden identity.
It is understandable for China's leaders to proceed methodically with market reform, given the risks involved in getting it wrong.
"The Duch trial itself proceeded methodically and, in the end, was a success," said Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.
Fanning out in a corn field, on sandy ridges along the highway, or near the enclosures themselves, the team would proceed methodically: open the trap, set it down, throw in a handful of sunflower seeds.
The doctors and nurses on rounds tried to proceed methodically from one room to the next but were constantly interrupted: a patient they thought they'd stabilized began hemorrhaging again; another who had been taken off the ventilator developed trouble breathing and had to be put back on the machine.
"These are extremely complex issues, and it is imperative that we proceed methodically and in the best interests of Texas A&M," Loftin said in a statement that hinted that the vote by the SEC presidents was more of a speed bump than a roadblock.
We must not think of it as the mere tool of the metaphysician: Dialectic does not consist of bare theories and rules: it deals with verities; Existences are, as it were, Matter to it, or at least it proceeds methodically towards Existences, and possesses itself, at the one step, of the notions and of the realities.
Kennedy, who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," proceeds methodically through the U.N.'s charter and its various branches, concentrating more on structures than on personalities — even figures like Ralph Bunche and Dag Hammarskjöld appear as little more than sketches.
Mr. Fagan, an anthropologist who has written on climate change in "The Long Summer" and "The Little Ice Age," proceeds methodically, working his way across the globe and reading the evidence provided by tree rings, deep-sea cores, coral samples, computer weather models and satellite photos.
