(1) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
(2) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
(3) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
(4) • Lord Mandelson, writing in the Guardian , describes the process of shadow cabinet election as "an absurdity", but admits that New Labour had lost out because in government it had been too lazy to organise the grassroots, acting as if the nitty gritty of such work was beneath it.
(5) On the nitty-gritty side, one major concern has to be jobs.
(6) These are the moments commonly referred to as the "nitty gritty."
(7) But in terms of really getting to the nitty-gritty of telling people what impact that money is going to make, that comes a long, long way down.” According to an Ipsos Mori poll 54% of current donors choose to give to charities “that decide what to do based on evidence”, compared to 30% who give to charities whose activities are values--led.
(8) Over on Channel 4 Homeland is getting down to the nitty gritty end of its third season, with 1.8 million viewers watching the 10th of 12 episodes.
(9) It was a 125-page smorgasbord of vague targets and nitty-gritty measures, from "ensuring the UK remains one of the top destinations for foreign direct investment", to redrafting the little known Outer Space Act to capitalise on the UK's strength in building space vehicles.
(10) For Britain, by contrast, this is unprecedented governmental programme transparency, a step forward, real grownup, nitty-gritty stuff.
(11) That Frank Nitti - every week confounded by Elliot Ness."
(12) The nitty gritty of the merger deal is likely to take considerable management time and effort at a time when ITV cannot afford to take its eye off the battle it has with the BBC and BSkyB.
(13) Finance ministers might also succeed in bringing forward the date when capital can be injected into struggling bank, when they hammer out the nitty-gritty of the deal.
(14) But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, the brothers are very different.
(15) It was as if we felt the nitty gritty of organising at the grassroots was somehow beneath us.
(16) They are still behaving as if Old Trafford is a dream destination, somewhere anyone in the managerial world would love to come and have a go, conveniently ignoring the actual nitty gritty of the club's reduced cirmcumstances.
(17) The team, which includes researchers in seven countries and three continents, is trying to nail down the nitty-gritty details involved in turning insects into animal feed.
(18) It is pretty harsh on countries like South Africa which is doing a good job of protecting lions.” Robin Freeman, at the Zoological Society of London, UK, said: “While looking at things on aggregate is interesting, the real interesting nitty gritty comes in the details.
(19) This stuff, the nitty-gritty of governing, is boring; even worse than that is trying to turn political visions into actual laws.
(20) "It has not been involved in the nitty-gritty of fighting.