Sentences with phrase «detective working»

The narration alternates between the novelist and an British military detective working in Vienna.

Luckily for Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan), a Hong Kong detective working on an international smuggling case, he lands on the life restoring side of the medallion's power.

The elements of «Hell or High Water» sound familiar — a pair of bank - robbing brothers, a detective working his last case before retirement, the mean flatlands of West Texas — but the film turns out to be something different, an urgent and dynamic drama told in a low, measured cadence.

For those unfamiliar with the Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice follows Larry «Doc» Sportello (Phoenix), a pot - smoking detective working on a kidnapping case at the behest of an ex-lover during the 1970s in Los Angeles.

The film already stars Colin Firth as Ron Lax, the private detective working the West Memphis Three case pro bono and the man responsible for connecting one of the victim's stepfathers, Terry Hobbs (Nivola), to the crime.

A previous suitor (Trystan Gravelle) is a dull police detective working the murder case, but Pascal unlocks something in her that she has evidently long kept buried deep.

The movie does, however, offer a glimpse into the mind of a detective working the grim streets of a dark town.

Jake Gyllenhaal is the detective working the case while Oscar - winner Melissa Leo plays Dano's mother.

You have to be a bit careful with this one, because you don't want to sound like some kind of private detective working on a case.

The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the personal details of the families of servicemen who died on the front line have been found in the files of Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective working for the Sunday tabloid.

As for what I personally believe, which has been the subject of inquiries, accusations and speculation, I think Osama bin Laden was found due to ingenious detective work.

Even if you've read «The Truth» — which is phenomenal — it still requires doing a ton of detective work in understanding your own behavior.

The best approach is to request a trial week, giving you a few days to do some detective work.

It is the fruit of years of original research, numerous site visits, and even a little architectural detective work.

You can do alot of detective work to find that the boyfriend pretty much couldn't exist but if the person deeply believes then logical proof most likely won't work.

I found this historical detective work convincing.

The Japanese writer has said he wants to blend Dostoevsky and Raymond Chandler in his work, and he has done so in this novel with a triple portion: religious mysticism, murders and detective work, and the Little People....

Mr. Hartley Ray did excellent detective work in locating elusive references.

Recognizing my own limits» and the life and writings of Lord Byron is definitely among them» I turned to my sister Marion for a bit of literary detective work.

They got quite a few confessions; and if their detective work was good going into the interrogation, many of those confessions were probably true.

Here, also, moral detective work is essential.

The method involves a kind of detective work by which we critically use the available sources, including documents that testify to past events.

Katherine Gunn from Truth Makes Freedom did some detective work and discovered an area of my theology that has changed.

Archaeologist, anthropologist and naturalist, he devoted a great deal of time and reflection to the detective work of scientific observation.

Since I've not been stateside for a couple of years, I've never hunted down Raffaello in the supermarkets, but I know that they can be found with a little detective work.

Here is what the ATK site states: «It took some detective work to develop a French butter cookie recipe with a properly sandy texture.

I'll see what I can do, but feel free to do some detective work and get back to us.

That had a lot to do with eyeball detective work and armchair psychology, but it turns out I was right, even if that same kind of half - hearted sleuthing would have been wrong the next 50 times.

And college football's internet culture, including the amateur detective work that ranges from plane - tracking to social media decrypting, sprang from message boards.

HPD probably has 40 detectives working homicides and major assaults and I can tell you each detectives carries a case load of approx 100 + cases.

March 13 - 14: Take two days to discover The Secret Life of Maple Syrup with outdoor detective work, sap collecting, and boiling down, plus blind taste tests and sweet treats (Belmont)

Child's Dream: In addition to the standard «detective work», I listen to my customers and pay attention to what comes across my desk and into my inbox.

After some detective work, it became clear.

Occasionally a child may be sensitive to more than one thing in their diet and detective work becomes more crucial.

It may take some detective work to find the cause.

It takes a bit of detective work!

Once those immediate needs are met and you find that your baby is still unhappy, you'll have to do more detective work to find out what's wrong.

I've seen babies just lay there and let the milk drip into their mouth so think back a little on this and do some detective work on yourself on that.

If your child develops a fear of their teacher, once again, you need to be discreet in your detective work.

Since children will often deny problems with kids at school either because they are embarrassed or because they don't recognize they exist, parents need to do a little detective work if they suspect social problems.

It usually requires a bit of detective work to figure out exactly what's causing the sensitivity.

Excellent detective work, Jon — now that we know the source of their strategy, we're one step closer to beating them.

She was arrested by appointment at a London police station [180][181] by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's phone hacking investigation, and Operation Elveden, the probe examining illicit payments to police officers.

He was arrested by appointment at a London police station by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the police investigation into phone hacking.

«New York City's health department is probably the best at this detective work.

What could be done immediately is to go back to a system that has been in place since I tried my first murder case in 1978, which is Assistant DAs and homicide detectives work cooperatively in an effort to solve a case.

Peter Blauner's feature story is a meticulous piece of detective work, down to the dubious scrawled codicil to Raffa's will, that also brings home the sad mix of money, ego, and hurt feelings behind the drama.

I liked biological science and the detective work and thought this was something I'd be interested in doing.»

Hessler's detective work turned up one other clue to the mapmaker's method: Although the rotation was close to 8.5 degrees throughout the chart, it varied a bit.

That's pretty impressive detective work, but we are still not satisfied.