Dotting

Alberto Gonzales and company are so busy destroying civl rights (setting race/gender relations back 100 years) that they’ve been derelict in dotting their “i’s and crossing their “t” s in terrorism cases. ❋ Unknown (2005)

When you're shooting downhill at 30 miles an hour, defying ice and moguls, it can be tough, hazardous and just plain stupid to try to decipher the myriad designer labels dotting the guy who's about to cut you off. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's something called the Airman's Information Manual and the dotting is a little -- oh, good, you can see very well now. ❋ Unknown (2000)

And you could do the subtitling as part of this if you prefer by "dotting" them onto the appropriate Trim line. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We clearly want to build new nuclear power stations in the UK; we have a shortlist of sites that we're looking at at the moment and this is kind of dotting the i's and crossing the t's" if we decided to build a station at Oldbury, a spokesman for EON UK told AFP. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

They don't have access to farmers markets, artisanal bakeries, supermarkets or other fresh food options dotting the streets of many middle and upper class communities. ❋ Sarah Newman (2010)

There were other domes dotting the black and red surface of the planet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although the agreement is not complete, the sides are dotting the 'i's and crossing the t's,' the person said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

In 1961, after 20 years at the National Institute, just as he was beginning to feel that his work was "dotting Is and crossing Ts", Lovelock got a letter from Nasa inviting him to join the team working on the Viking programme, which hoped to detect life on Mars. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The odd characters dotting their family trees only added to the mystery—tales of witches and vampires and voodoo queens. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

While I recognize that this is well in advance of our hearing in December, I cannot impress upon you the urgency of crossing our Ts and dotting our Is now. ❋ Cavanaugh Lee (2011)

My concern is that if they became part of a majority, there would no longer be the need for i dotting and t crossing when it came to housing and other issues where money and special interests reign; people's advocates could then too easily become "enemies of the people". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even as the country has industrialized, the fishing industry has remained integral to its image, with a fishing community dotting Japan's shores every 3.5 miles, according to a 2009 agriculture ministry white paper. ❋ Juro Osawa (2011)

Tons of paperwork, record-keeping, dotting of the 'i's' and 't's'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It feels like sitting on a tree branch way up in the air, and between the tall palms and evergreens I can see the red tile roofs of the houses dotting the green Hollywood Hills. ❋ Todd Strasser (2011)