Some people now think that this was a very clear open and shut case.
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Besides, does anybody seriously expect firms to open and shut plants to take advantage of a modest two-year tax break?
The connection between democracy and the rule of law is therefore, to put it mildly, not exactly an open and shut case.
Last February, doubtless prodded by the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf, the Supreme Court decided it was time to open and shut the Bhutto file.
" Mr. Tenet puts in her mouth the haughty and foolish assertion that the al Qaeda-Iraq issue was "open and shut" and "no further analysis is required.
I've never seen such a fast guilty verdict like this unless it was open and shut like the Susan Smith case and the jury had no choice.
"If this was a fair fight and there wasn't this poison pill, this would be an open and shut case as of this morning, " said Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart.
Seems like an open and shut case, right?
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Examples of what will be open and shut.
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He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.
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True to form, the designers made it work- finding that certain elements of the office were kicked to the curb (filing cabinets, plaques on walls, gigantic desks) and others were reintroduced and heavily used to create a modern and engaging atmosphere (glass walls that slide open and shut, wireless technology capabilities, virtual fishbowls).
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Three strands of DNA were synthesized so that when they were put into a test tube, they immediately became a molecular motor--a pair of DNA tweezers, held together at one end by a third piece of DNA that could be made to open and shut by adding or subtracting a fourth DNA strand.
Under their balcony a bus stopped, brakes wheezing, its doors slapped open, then shut, engine roaring and sending up a plume of noxious smoke as it rumbled away.
But the government says when it comes to black money, it's not an open-and-shut case.
Joe Co. would have an open-and-shut case against the companies responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Although thousands of union members turned out at the capitol to protest, it was an open-and-shut case.
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Joe Corp. would have an open-and-shut case against BP, Transocean and Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
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The Japanese giants go open-source to shut Microsoft's window on home electronics networking.
If the federal funds rate were at, say, 3 percent, we would have, in my view, an open-and-shut case for reducing it.
Some of the Dutch works are permanent dijks, but others are open sluices that merely shut when storms are coming to block surges.
So it is not an open-and-shut case that these medications work.
In sum, it certainly appears that Project Brand is really intended to open doors that had been shut for Minor League Baseball in the past.
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Open-air drug markets were shut down, which didn't significantly reduce drug sales but did eliminate 90% of drug-related killings, which usually involve turf conflicts.
"They put the coffin on top of a stretcher and we looked for a little crowbar to open it because it was nailed shut, " Veron told a local television station.
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