Look, I know that the by-the-book crowd has a point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Boyle: Kindergarten Cop: Let Your Kids Catch You Breaking the Law] Reference

Others accused Mr. Shahristani of being too by-the-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Oil Ready for Big Gamble in Iraq] Reference

LOL, we certainly need a "by-the-book" guide on this.    From Wordnik.com.  [G? Gee Thanks, Starmag!] Reference

He'd never had a boss who wasn't a rigid by-the-book man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trunk Music]

Despite a by-the-book investigation, no one was ever charged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Closers: Summary and book reviews of The Closers by Michael Connelly.] Reference

War and anarchy are not friends to careful, by-the-book research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Body Counting] Reference

At first, I had planned to do a by-the-book fisking of the speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Column Left] Reference

That goes against the grain with the by-the-book traditions of NBC.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSNBC Draws The Line At Keith Olbermann] Reference

You know those two are as by-the-book as any trainees you've ever had!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Gryphon]

Casey is a modest, by-the-book general who evinces little imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottom-Up Progress] Reference

In case you don't know him, he's by-the-book, and every inch an officer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Gryphon]

MARQUEZ: The sheriff, a self-described by-the-book man, went into denial.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2005] Reference

Paddick seems a by-the-book Victorian compared with the two front runners.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Race to Remember] Reference

So why is the FAA finally forcing airlines into strict by-the-book compliance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turbulent Travel Season Ahead] Reference

Lord is a by-the-book prosecutor who tangles with him from their first meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-29] Reference

Under the marines control his craft was turned into a by-the-book regulation ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

There's some speculation he'll be a more of a by-the-book chairman than Greenspan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2005] Reference

It is a by-the-book uncovering of the motives and methods until the case is solved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackie K. Cooper: No Evidence of Kellerman's Talent In His Latest Novel] Reference

Sununu, by contrast, mostly a by-the-book conservative, who also supports a flat tax.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2002] Reference

One is reluctant and relies on intuition, and the other is more diligent and by-the-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Derivations on a theme] Reference

In the late 1960s, the by-the-book Skinner sent several students to the principal's office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Leonard Skinner] Reference

Too late -- Michael begins to touch all the bases in a by-the-book heart-tugging performance.    From Wordnik.com.  ['American Idol' tackles Shania Twain tunes] Reference

This isn't an assignment that would have been given to any hide-bound, by-the-book blockhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lance Mannion:] Reference

The by-the-book officer was standing right by her shoulder, looming over the daydreaming cadet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recovery]

Authorities here, the way they describe it, they were able to pull this off by by-the-book police work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2005] Reference

MATTINGLY: The FBI is running this investigation here as a crime scene and they are strictly by-the-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001] Reference

They're making a great deal of effort to make sure this is a very traditional, by-the-book type of memorial service.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2009] Reference

And, believe it or not, your breasts can adapt within 2 weeks to most semi-correct latches as well as by-the-book ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nursing] Reference

"Jeff Gannon" had decided to give an exclusive TV interview to a sober practitioner of by-the-book real news, Wolf Blitzer.    From Wordnik.com.  [02/17/2005] Reference

DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): By all accounts, Bobby Maxwell was a hard-nosed, by-the-book government auditor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2008] Reference

Several former colleagues describe Trandahl as a by-the-book guy who took his job overseeing 16-year-old pages very seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

When the Doonesbury strip made fun of Fleischer's by-the-book style, he just laughed and hung a framed copy on his office wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2002] Reference

Several former colleagues described Trandahl as a by-the-book guy who took his job overseeing 16-year-old pages very seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

Arabica also has a much nicer look than King Wah's dingy by-the-book Oriental carpeting, so it's a much nicer place to go for lunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the World] Reference

It was every foot-dragging, fanny-covering bureaucrat in every company or government home office, each just "doing my job" by-the-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between The Lines Online: Who Let The Terrorists Succeed?] Reference

The question is, do we want to have the military and the CIA go back to their risk-averse, by-the-book mentality that they had before 9/11?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2004] Reference