The act of scrutinizing to death a nominee for high public office.

There are signs now of greater independence, with journalists scrutinizing the shows much as entertainment or cultural critics would.

I bluffed away my uneasiness by scrutinizing the premises.

Mr. Suria said he had written the report after scrutinizing the company's first-quarter results, made public last month.

Two lawyers said prosecutors were scrutinizing the campaign's use of the hotel and whether it was properly reported as an in-kind contribution to the candidate.

I stood there scrutinizing it, absorbed.

Mr. Zucker has special reason for scrutinizing the results at "Today" closely, having had long success himself as its executive producer.

Scrutinizing the politically ambitious is not something that normally interests most Americans until all but two have been eliminated, by which time it is too late.

Mr. Cammarata, chairman of the committee preparing the evaluation, said it would be "one of the most extensive and scrutinizing ever."

I looked at her, scrutinizing her for the first time, to surprise something sly in her expression, something covert.

Mr. Eisner said negotiations were continuing, and he noted that Disney has a reputation for scrutinizing its expenditures carefully.

A very fine landfall, Mr Marshall,' said Jack, coming down from the top, where he had been scrutinizing the cape through his glass.

Harry Turtledove He also noticed Fernao scrutinizing him, which he wasn't supposed to do.

Scrutinizing Nicaragua's compliance with the plan is also inextricably tied to U.S. funding of the contras.

"You look beautiful, Michelle," he said, scrutinizing the clingy dress that stopped about midthigh and showed off a healthy dose of her Olympian legs.

Many other investigations of the Youth Movement were started (most notably scrutinizing the sexual activities of Walter Brand).

His knock was answered by Mrs. Gonzales, who allowed him in only after thoroughly scrutinizing his police ID.

At a time when many people have become more health conscious and are scrutinizing their diets, it's no wonder that the Chinese Herbal Restaurant draws large crowds.

If after scrutinizing his testimony, you decide to accept it, you may give it whatever weight, if any, you find it deserves."

We found a scene in which Ms. Sheedy's character stands in the dressing room at Barneys, critically scrutinizing her body, particularly disquieting.

The Vulcan bent intently over his equipment, then straightened and turned his sharp, scrutinizing gaze toward the front viewscreen and its unanticipated vision.

Brodkey begins by closely scrutinizing the first sentences in two of Austen's novels; then he compares them with the first sentence in one of James's.

But preliminary indications suggest that by the time the Uruguay round concludes, there will be a greater role for GATT in scrutinizing member-country trade policies.

Sniggering like schoolboys, they were lifting up the less popular bottles, scrutinizing the labels carefully and pouring dollops into an array of glasses lined up before them.

She could not see those who were scrutinizing her, not even the gleam of a tooth or eye, but she knew they must be thinking twice about attacking her.

Again she looked at me; and with the same scrutinising and conscious eye.

She went back to the chapel and began to search, stepping carefully around the body, scrutinising the stone floor, moving slowly, eyes down.

We share his concern that the regulations are overly complex and make our job, as a Parliament, of scrutinising the budget very difficult.

Despite this and the scrutinising of newspaper personal ads, the trafficking and abuse of infants did not stop.

Then, turning towards Rosa, and fixing on her his scrutinising, and at the same time impenetrable glance, he said, - "Now, my child."

"Since the law/fact boundary becomes indistinct, this fudges the conceptual moorings of judicial review as confined to scrutinising legal error.

So they are not scrutinising sectors or making informed choices at the ballot box; they are not holding politicians accountable as they should be.

Must we continue down this ridiculous path of scrutinising politicians' private lives - especially this couple of public school johnnies sitting comfy on their nice fat £30million fortune.

The competition judges visited more than 1,000 public toilets all over Britain, scrutinising cleanliness, overall management, signage, accessibility, décor and the standard of fixtures and fittings.

The group also uses the name OSCEwatch, indicating that it sees part of its mission as scrutinising the activities of the OSCE.

The agreement also led to permitting an extra month for the electoral process so as to allow for the scrutinising of the electoral nomination in order to keep out corrupt and criminal figures.

Professor Laski, who is scrutinising these developments, forecasts a very long-lasting depression because, quite naturally, the recession in production will shortly be followed by a recession in the general demand for investment goods.

They can only be superseded by realist authors who "abandon and transcend the limits of immediacy, by scrutinising all subjective experiences and measuring them against social reality;" this is no easy task.

In June 2010 Doyle-Price was appointed to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee which is responsible for scrutinising Government spending and whether it is delivering value for money.

Due to his role in Degesch, which included regular scrutinising of the company accounts, Mann was privy to information regarding the vast quantities of Zyklon-B that the company supplied to the Schutzstaffel.

"Constructive monitor" of the HKSAR government, scrutinising various government policies and decisions, providing "constructive policy alternatives" whilst securing the progress, prosperity, social stability and harmony for Hong Kong.

It is not appropriate here to analyse, nor even to state, the many reasons for this difficulty, but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities.

The Coalition document said: "We will introduce a new 'public reading stage' for bills to give the public an opportunity to comment on proposed legislation online, and a dedicated 'public reading day' within a bill's committee stage where those comments will be debated by the committee scrutinising the bill."

But you're also going to be scrutinized by some other people for the first time.

I have been scrutinized all my life in every way for the past 40 years.

"All of us who come into the field are going to be scrutinized."

Every move is scrutinized by the press and the public.

Others will scrutinize her for how she got in the door.

But they are being scrutinized, from inside and outside the organization.

Now they will have the chance to scrutinize him up close.

As a woman in high office, her clothes are scrutinized.

The plan will thus be closely scrutinized by the community.

"Everything else will be scrutinized even more carefully than before."

Why should one guy be scrutinized so much more than anybody else?

Now, the trust industry here is about to be scrutinized as never before.

He sat down on the chair at the table and scrutinized the set.

And if he thought his career was scrutinized before, wait until this year.

What is more, few people scrutinize the information they find on the Web.

He said that the Government had not yet scrutinized many of the claims.

A few other campaigns are still being scrutinized, he said.

When these were scrutinized, it was found they did not exist.

So the answer here would be to scrutinize the chain.

I'd begun scrutinizing him as though for the first time.

He said they had to scrutinize how funds are used and what was best for the community.

Government has looked the other way but is beginning to scrutinize the operations.

"I think it's appropriate for every one of us to have our lives scrutinized."

He could only remember being scrutinized that closely once before in his life.

When I was settled at his side he turned to scrutinize me.

We will have the chance to scrutinise, to debate, to question.

It is obviously right for the House to scrutinise these activities.

He makes us scrutinise not just Scotland, but the whole world.

He began to scrutinise the family photographs, looking for signs.

It is, of course, the Council and its budget management that we are to scrutinise.

But I think this is a great opportunity to scrutinise his reputation.

Your report offers us an opportunity to scrutinise the Union's overall policy in the field of human rights.

Of course, the government is quite right to closely scrutinise, and be transparent about, public spending.

By all means scrutinise other countries, but not mine.

It is impossible to scrutinise so many legal acts carefully in such a short space of time.

For full transparency we must scrutinise these questions too.

The same membership may be nominated to scrutinise more than one document.

Being able to scrutinise the administration effectively is the best protection against irregularities.

Our citizens, who have mandated us to set policies and scrutinise the executive, expect no less.

They've got better things to do than scrutinise the detail of his intellectual argument (which as I say, is actually very strong).

We will closely scrutinise these figures in the committee.

We are currently denied the right to scrutinise those procedures, which I believe is improper.

Member States will have the right to scrutinise carefully people requesting this permit.

We now look forward to working with the Lords to scrutinise the bill during committee stage to improve our plans further.

We need from the Commission material we can use to help us scrutinise spending.

This is also evident today as we scrutinise the amendment to Directive 95/53 at second reading.

If we are to scrutinise these decisions, we need to look into the mirror of history.

It does not merely scrutinise the carbon issue, but is also a comprehensive policy on climate.

I understand that the Commission is proposing to scrutinise the national budgets in advance.

For the first time ever taxpayers will be able to scrutinise a range of data, including: