Agency officials have dismissed the criticism, saying that the raids were methodically planned and properly conducted, and that the "collateral arrests" of illegal immigrants who were not gang members were part of the agency's mandate to enforce immigration laws.
This type of research must be methodically planned and implemented with attention to validity, reliability, and relevance.
The other creatures are at first unfriendly, refusing to communicate telepathically, but soon they are joining forces and Crusher is methodically planning her escape.
The occupants have either abandoned the home or are methodically planning their departure well before Mr. Laubinger arrives bearing an incentive officially known as relocation assistance but always called cash for keys.
Meanwhile, the gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, was methodically working his way around the island.
Frazier was methodically dismantling his opponents with his famous "Philadelphia left hook".
The Entry of Animals into Noah's Ark, on this month's cover, was methodically assembled.
Elements of the methodically planned, generously financed French system still serve the country well.
But those who have been methodically putting money into pension plans (often known in America as 401(k) schemes) must be wondering why they bothered.Figures from Morningstar, an investment-research firm, show that an American who put $100 a month for the past ten years into the average equity fund would have accumulated just $10,932 $1,068 less than he invested (see chart 1).
In 2002, at a legal symposium, the Bush administration outlined plans for "F.D.A. involvement in product liability lawsuits," and it has been methodically pursuing that strategy.
The scene is methodically staged.
