No forecasting system is infallible, though, and the weather service now routinely relies on its own El Nino model.

Competitive bidding is still a controversial approach for awarding legal work on big cases like this one, though a few Federal judges rely on it routinely.

Mendrossen was confessing to having been a spy in an organization that routinely relied on mindmelds to maintain security and unanimity.

Typically the film ends with a grandiose version of the kind of corny reconciliation TV comedies routinely rely on.

If taken to court, he said, he will show that the I.R.S. routinely relies on faulty or nonexistent notices.

(Colleges routinely rely on the board to crunch their averages.)

The state routinely relies on doctors to serve as expert witnesses when it investigates possible cases of medical negligence.

And, they added, because prosecutors routinely rely on the police for their cases, they have an inherent conflict of interest in pursuing the police.

Most of them were relying routinely on computer-assisted guidance and weapons systems - and those systems suddenly went haywire.

Economists said a one-point increase would eventually feed through the economy, affecting borrowing and spending by businesses and consumers, many of whom have come to rely routinely on debt.