Clear Cut

BILL: Let me take a case thats really clear-cut, which is the Microsoft case. ❋ Michael Kinsley With Conor Clarke (2009)

Cohesion in the locker room was as strong as it's been in three years due to seamless inclusions of midfielders Mauro Rosales and Erik Friberg, and also what Schmid called a clear-cut hierarchy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

For Lara and for myself, the future was not at all clear-cut. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Central bank Governor Gill Marcus separately said that while the rand is undoubtedly overvalued, in part due to attractive interest rates in South Africa, there is no clear-cut answer to what can be done. ❋ Robb M. Stewart (2010)

It helps to be reminded why these topics are so complex and difficult to discuss in clear-cut terms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other facts are not so clear-cut and I had to make choices: he may or may not have lived in the house of his mother-in-law (I decided he did); he converted to Catholicism at the time of his marriage but not necessarily because Catharina was Catholic ❋ Unknown (2010)

Without such a clear-cut distinction between top-tier and lower-level nations—as there is in men's cricket—tournaments like these give lesser teams the chance to compete against top sides and raise their standards quickly. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

Ideally, but with Assange and all, it is not all that clear-cut in the West either. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“We made a clear-cut request for him to stop his campaign against the United States because it was going to lead to nowhere,” Benotman recalled, “but they laughed when I told them that America would attack the whole region if they launched another attack against it.” ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Operating in a moral gray area beyond the reach of any clear-cut legal jurisdiction, Zamora claims to have returned 54 children to left-behind parents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are few more clear-cut cases of evil in the world today than the Lord's Resistance Army. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Sandy, can you confirm reports that the campaign has made the decision to pull out of New Mexico?” a reporter asked him immediately after he had cited the cable polls as evidence of a clear-cut Morrison victory, and the harbinger of a Morrison surge in the real polls. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

“Do you think you did that without a clear-cut victory tonight?” ❋ Anonymous (2011)

All this sometimes comes close to sounding like propaganda; is it really what the psalmist saw—was everything so clear-cut, so simple? ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

The relationship between Zarqawi and al-Qaeda was already known to be far from clear-cut. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)