detective work

He made it sound not like war but a humanitarian mission with some strong-arm detective work thrown in.

It's kind of like detective work, trying to piece together as much evidence as you can gather.

But after years of detective work and long conversations with her ailing father, Franks eventually pieced together most of his story.

After a kidnapping, she did the kind of bedrock detective work Russian prosecutors would not.

Sometimes a bit of detective work is needed to pinpoint the exact coordinates.

It is all a far cry from piecing together clues in a country house, or the drudgery of real-life detective work.

Such detective work keeps the company's mapping database up to date.

Few other details are known about Holmes's childhood, but it is known that he began his detective work as a university student at Cambridge.

And the intellectual work of archaeology, figuring out the past from clues left behind, was a great deal like detective work.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Every new technology has its own buzzwords, and sorting them out can be real detective work. The following is two jargons of MPC.

But, when you think about it, job hunting is a lot like detective work anyway.

After months of detective work, the police were finally on to the plans of the criminals.

Well, Francis, do you suppose you could undertake a little piece of detective work for me, and handle it intelligently and quietly?

Japan is famous detective work for a new high, cane called "pointed out the detective" .

It was a cunning piece of detective work.

There must be specific measures to improve the mechanisms for official crime detective work so as to push it forward in depth.

'If you think that Sir Charles' death was caused by some- thing supernatural, my detective work can't help you, 'said Holmes, rather coldly.

Often it takes skillful detective work to deduce what is happening internally from what can be observed directly.

Their painstaking detective work reveals his burial was a rush job.

Mother (she's given no other name) marches tirelessly around the village, doing her own detective work.

The clues are too sketchy, so it's hard to carry out our detective work .

Careful study and detective work also plays a measurably vital role in dissecting the bettor's options.

Identifying the genetic link required even more detailed detective work.

Fortunately, however, some folks actually revel in this type of "detective work. "

The book blends genuine detective-work with the most absurd non-sequiturs and red herrings of literary criticism.

Experts from Brazil and Europe have joined in the detective work at USDA's bee lab in suburban Washington.

But some people can have a delayed reaction to an asthma trigger, so some extra detective work may be needed.

'It was real hard detective work, but it was fun, ' he says.

In detective work, the most important is the fact that from the tedious prioritizing.

And now scientists know who to blame, thanks to some genetic detective work: travelers and trade from the southeastern U. S.

This is a skill that can be learned, it just needs a little "detective" work up-front!

For all of 2005, minor purchases required dogged detective work as Bongiorni scoured catalogues and read labels.

I did some detective work and discovered that trees were sometimes used as "wishing trees" .

I would do the necessary detective work until I was convinced of where that item manifested itself.

Now the fun detective work can begin.

Can you give me an example of one of the inconsistencies you found in your detective work?

Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work?

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