Sentence examples for straight cases from inspiring English sources

The Games' organizing committee had hired consultants "as straight cases of patronage," falsified documents to justify contracts, and spent eight hundred thousand dollars to send more than a hundred delegates to Beijing on "a pleasure trip at government expense".

IT IS, some will think, a straight case of educational correctness.

That includes students, who have to demonstrate their competence on one "straight case" (an ordinary death) and one "post-mortem case" (which involves putting the body back together after a coroner has examined it).

M. interjecta has a straight case made of sand grains and small bark particles (see figures below for M. interjecta).

Obviously when you've just had a procedure like that, it's important to keep a straight face in case the stitches burst open.

All of it was hilarious precisely because Gardner reported essentially with a straight face: in most cases, taking these weird claims seriously was ridicule enough.

Senior officials keep missing opportunities to keep their signals straight, prompting cases of vicious backbiting that one senior member of Mr. Bush's national security staff said with disgust the other day "make us sound like Democrats".

GPs with unknown skills were working in unfamiliar surroundings dealing with relatively straight forward cases and may have anticipated the interruptions.

In the curved road case, the trajectory of the vehicle is trembler than the trajectory in the straight road case.

When he proved to be straight, his case was considered less interesting, and he settled for a life as an eccentric, friendless stoic.

Sure, the Cardinals swept them in St . Louis but the Mets had won the first six games between the teams so this was just the Cardinals getting a little even, getting the psychology straight in case the teams play next month.