procedure
They could demand votes for every tiny procedural issue and bring the Senate to a halt.
The judgment was overturned because there had been procedural mistakes.
There are multiple procedural and legal hurdles before a solution can be reached.
Procedural and crime shows dominate the ratings right now.

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procedural
noun[ C ]
uk /prəˈsiː.dʒər.əl/ us /prəˈsiː.dʒɚ.əl/
media, literature specialized
a television programme, film, or story that includes a lot of detail about official legal or police methods and processes: 司法剧;司法故事
The TV schedules are crowded with procedurals such as CSI (Crime Scene Investigation).电视节目时间表上排满了诸如《犯罪现场调查》（CSI）之类的司法剧。
The novel is a gripping police procedural that explores a homicide taking place in Chicago in 1969.这部小说是一个扣人心弦的司法故事，讲述了1969年发生在芝加哥的一桩凶杀案。
This is a crime procedural with a twist.
It's typical for procedurals to pair up two quite different characters—like the headstrong rookie detective with the older and wiser cop.
The documentary is paced like a procedural, with flashy visual effects to dramatize the hunt for a cure for the disease.
The show incorporates comedy, family psychodrama, adventure, and police procedural.

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procedural | Business English

procedural
adjective
uk /prəˈsiːdʒʊrəl/us
relating to the usual or official way in which something is done:
The crew of the flight committed numerous procedural violations before taking off from the wrong runway and crashing.
So the first solution I would describe is procedural, applying a formula and doing a calculation.
procedural issues/problems/questions

Examples of procedural

procedural
Procedural rules, unlike substantial rules, they do not confer rights or duties, but organise their assignment.
Rather, it may be more appropriate to describe the calibration of visual-motor transformations as involving procedural memory.
The plaintiff (most probably at the suggestion of her attorney) changed strategy and decided to employ a procedural argument rather than substantive one.
These aforementioned abstractions work well for procedural programs, but are not powerful enough to fully address advanced language features such as higher order functions.
Yet, it must be noted that the referendum was purely a procedural measure seeking to institutionalise a process of demilitarisation that had already taken place.
This probably reflects improvements in pericatheterization medical management, in selection of patients, in procedural techniques, and in the experience of operators.
A procedural theory of legitimacy assesses how the directives an authority issues are arrived at.
The normal justification thesis fails as a test for the legitimacy of political authorities because it fails to account for the procedural dimension of legitimacy.
A key ingredient of this successful recipe was a mix of physical and procedural improvements.
It would clearly restrict democratisation to minimalist or ' procedural ' requirements.
Previous accounts of object-oriented programming have chosen procedural abstraction, encoding objects as elements of recursive record types.
Yet, over recent years, this framework setting has become more specific in relation to procedural but also substantive issues.
As noted above, the theory assumes that delegation is clear and that procedural guarantees allow the principal to exercise ex post control on the agent.
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.
In the private-law case, this impression happens to be accurate, because the procedural symmetry is accompanied by a substantive one.
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