We expected about 36,000 cases left on the rolls, and we're down to 10,875.

Letters are written as a linear sequence, in most cases left to right.

Weren't too many cases left for me to clean up in town.

"This case has left me without some friends I had before," he said.

But the case left a few unfortunates in its wake.

He said the case had left him in "a quandary."

Now he wished he'd left the miserable thing m its case.

Thorne's various cases left him with a new interest in the law.

In other words, the case, carried through to its logical conclusion, left them somewhere they didn't want to be.

That's normal politics, and his case left an especially bad taste with many Republicans.