Those who didn't attend didn't see a thorough and methodical effort by the home team, but they didn't miss much tension or excitement.

"It was a methodical effort by the Kerry campaign and by people who are supposed to be neutral," he said.

The Holocaust was not a civil, ethnic or religious conflict but a methodical effort to annihilate every Jew in every land.

Once the Iraqi military had been abolished, a new and very methodical effort to rebuild the armed forces from the ground up was begun.

The testimony today was a methodical effort by the prosecutor, Bruce P. Hudock, to corroborate the young woman's story.

That means the demolition from start to finish must be a slow, methodical effort.

The Russian attack is a methodical effort to expunge the humiliations of the 1994-96 Chechen war.

He wants to score more points, but he does not feel the need to apologize for his team's methodical efforts.

That was a methodical effort that turned out to be a prosaic precursor.

Instantly the next shot came, and then with slow and methodical effort the unknown marksman began to shoot the building full of holes.